vox...
what i really want to do is to talk non-stop about the experience i had at an emergent church this morning...i have waited all summer to hear something challenging and theologically thought out from the pulpit...i was beginning to think that pastors have officially checked out theologically all around the world...just stringing some sentences together with a few jokes about football...today was finally the day that i heard good exegesis - good illustrations - good theology - good humor - proclamation in the sense that we were uncomfortable - it just kicked ass...
so as i read carol and pappan's stuff, i now know where the missing generation of people are...they are in store fronts...they are living in communal housing...they are living across the tracks on the other side of town...basically, they are giving the finger to mainline churches and going to "live" the gospel according to emerging theology...
but, i am tired...the sunshine has made me high- no wait, all the pot smoke from ACL had a little to do with it...and i am going to take a nap...and connect all the dots of things that have been brewing for a long, long time...
ps - ryan, nuni de is poised and ready to be the non-hierarchical version of the emergent church...i think i am coming to louisville anyway...maybe...i'll tell you in a week...
posted by Monica @ 12:47 PM
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I would like to hear more about your emergent church experience this morning. Where were you and what touched you about it?
traci!! i hope to see you this week some time...i went to a primarily asian church called vox vinae - i think...they call it vox...anyway, the average age was about 25? and i was by far the oldest person there...with maybe two exceptions...
music is a big deal to me and i was wondering if it was going to be some long song set of things i didn't know - and it wasn't...the first song had words and poetry that were speaking of things i had never heard in a song...i personally think this is the type of hymns that may one day go in the "blue" book :)
the pastor used the text from acts 5 about annanis and sephira and where they sold their stuff and then ended up dying because they didn't give it all to god...NOBODY likes to preach this text...and he didn't shy away from it...
i will talk to you about it this week...you should go and check it out...they meet on airport in the same building as mosaic...
so glad to hear from you!
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