{"id":118,"date":"2006-10-31T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacknewsome.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-10-31T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T17:13:06","slug":"the-emerging-church-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacknewsome.com\/the-emerging-church-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emerging Church defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zacknewsome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/slemergents1_lrg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"slemergents1_lrg.jpg\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Often I get asked the question, &quot;Zack, what is the emerging church?&quot; in which my answer is often, &quot;You know, I am not sure how to define it.&quot;&nbsp; I usually tell the askers of such a question that I am not so sure I am comfortable with the label &quot;emerging&quot; applied to myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;But&#8230;have no fear. Scot McKnight (<a href=\"http:\/\/jesuscreed.org\/\">blog<\/a>) has recently come up with a definition for those of us who aren&#39;t sure they qualify as proper experts on the &quot;emerging church&quot;.&nbsp; This is a great read.&nbsp; It&#39;s about 30 pages and in it he tackles D.A. Carson&#39;s critique of the emerging church, the different streams of the emerging movement, and the distinctions of this movement frommpast church movements.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Traphagen (who blogs at the <a href=\"http:\/\/foolishsage.com\/\">foolish sage<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/foolishsage.com\/2006\/10\/29\/scot-mcknights-full-text-of-what-is-the-emerging-church-available-here\/\">posted the full text of Scot McKnight&#39;s definition<\/a> which he gave in&nbsp; his first address to the Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum <em>An Eternal Word in an &lsquo;Emerging World&rsquo;? <\/em> <\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/\">TallSkinnyKiwi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Often I get asked the question, &quot;Zack, what is the emerging church?&quot; in which my answer is often, &quot;You know, I am not sure how to define it.&quot;&nbsp; I usually tell the askers of such a question that I am not so sure I am comfortable with the label &quot;emerging&quot; applied to myself. &nbsp;But&#8230;have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Emerging Church defined - ZackNewsome.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zacknewsome.com\/the-emerging-church-defined\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Emerging Church defined - ZackNewsome.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Often I get asked the question, &quot;Zack, what is the emerging church?&quot; in which my answer is often, &quot;You know, I am not sure how to define it.&quot;&nbsp; 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