Emergent Christianity

Values that are shared by those in the 'emergent community':
* “suspended space” — “We try to create a space in our week, a liturgical hour, where there’s neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, Republican nor Democrat, employed nor unemployed, liberal nor conservative; where we can encounter each other at a deeper level than our mere affirmations. Not because they’re not important, but because we need to have a place where we can encounter each other at a deeper level.”

* “donut structure” — “I love the idea of a community that has no center. The center is voided. The center is where God is. And we practice relational tithing and relational pastoring. ... We call this the idea that the role of the leader is to refuse to be a leader, so as to push back and get a priesthood of all believers.”



Peter Rollins: “For me, revelation (means) you can’t hear it unless it transforms your social existence, unless it changes you utterly and dynamically.”

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