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Dieter Zander and Dallas Willard on the emerging church
By daniel | August 9, 2005
Below came from Jordan Cooper's blog… here
Dieter Zander and Dallas Willard on the emerging church in Leadership Journal
Dieter Zander: The emerging church is really saying that the kingdom of God is bigger than the evangelical Christian world. Sometimes that is communicated in constructive ways, sometimes not. But I believe they have a healthy desire to bring together what was separated during the Modernist-Fundamentalist split…They want to reunite social justice and Scripture - the inner spiritual life and the outer social life. That is spiritual formation - allowing the gospel to transform us internally so we live differently externally.
Dallas Willard: They have a justifiable and healthy reaction against the model of programmatic church, and I think that it's good in many respects. I hope and pray that they find their way and bring us something really positive and good. That remains to be seen. The great challenge for the emerging church is determining their message. Reacting against the modern church is not a gospel. But if their message becomes living in the kingdom at the street level, then that's going to be wonderful.
Topics: Culture, Emergent Church |
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