Emerging Churches: Creating
Christian Community in Postmodern
Cultures by Ryan K. Bolger
Finally Some Thoughtful Analysis
The emerging church movement is perhaps the most significant church
trend of our day. The emerging church offers and encourages a new way
of doing and being the church. While it largely resonates with an eighteen-
to-thirty-four-year-old audience--the first fully postmodern generation--it is
also gaining popularity with older Christians and encompasses a broad
array of traditional and contemporary churches. Emerging Churches
explores this movement and provides insight into its success. Filled
with the latest research and interesting, anecdotal testimonies from those
on the cutting edge of ministry, this book provides pastors, church leaders,
and interested readers with an insightful glimpse into the thriving churches
of today--and tomorrow.

Personal Review: Emerging Churches: Creating Christian
Community in Postmodern Cultures by Ryan K. Bolger
Finding a good book to recommend on the emerging church can be more
than a little challenging. Those written from inside the movement can be
shockingly self congratulatory ("Generous Orthodoxy" anyone?) and
external works can be shockingly overstated and curmudgeonly (yes, I'm
afraid this not only applies to Carson, but he is the prototype). This text is
a refreshing truce. Gibbs and Bolger (Fuller profs) have set out on a
fruitful quest to systematize (or at least describe) the un-systematic...the
distinctives of the movement that calls itself emerging (or something else
but for which the label still fits).
They interviewed a few dozen of the leading emerging pastors or leaders
and made a legitimate effort to distill the speech into 9 centrally held
values in the words of the movement's innovators. While never ignoring
the diversity of the voices they somehow manage to get to believable core
values and communicate them in a way that would make sense to those
outside the movement. The authors are, without a doubt, sympathetic to
most things emerging, but are not shrill apologists. Their cautious, steady
and informed analysis gives this text a gravity that most others lack. I very
much recommend it.
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