Comments on: End of the emerging church? http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/end-of-the-emerging-church/ Creativity, Faith, and Culture in the City Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Linkage… | Solar Crash http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/end-of-the-emerging-church/comment-page-1/#comment-28471 Linkage… | Solar Crash Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:23:19 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/?p=1141#comment-28471 [...] End of the emerging church? - more details on the new network [...] [...] End of the emerging church? – more details on the new network [...]

]]> By: Lon http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/end-of-the-emerging-church/comment-page-1/#comment-23653 Lon Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:56:14 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/?p=1141#comment-23653 Well said Deana!! and surprised you chimed in on this one! Well said Deana!! and surprised you chimed in on this one!

]]> By: Deana http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/end-of-the-emerging-church/comment-page-1/#comment-23626 Deana Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:17:36 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/?p=1141#comment-23626 ugh... you've hooked me in...i'm about to talk "church". which you should know by now is my FAVORITE topic. The other day we were flipping channels looking for Opera music for Max. I stopped on a public radio station that was talking about the Pentecostal Church. This is the church that Steve and I both grew up in, and got "kicked" out of. But while listening to this historian speak of the beginnings of the Pentecostal church, it stirred up emotions in me, of why I did love the church. And then I got mad. Because LABELS have muddied up the true intentions of the church. I was taught that if, as a believer, you weren't pentecostal, you weren't REALLY a Christian. If you were baptist you believed one thing, methodists another, Catholics...well they weren't really Christian, they were Catholic. Evangelicals were our cousins, and fundamentalists well...they were the crazies. And in the end...they were just my brothers and sisters. They all believed in God with the same passion I did. Why can't we just be believers? Why can't we just love God, follow Jesus, and do what the Bible says we should? ugh…

you’ve hooked me in…i’m about to talk “church”. which you should know by now is my FAVORITE topic.

The other day we were flipping channels looking for Opera music for Max. I stopped on a public radio station that was talking about the Pentecostal Church. This is the church that Steve and I both grew up in, and got “kicked” out of. But while listening to this historian speak of the beginnings of the Pentecostal church, it stirred up emotions in me, of why I did love the church.

And then I got mad. Because LABELS have muddied up the true intentions of the church. I was taught that if, as a believer, you weren’t pentecostal, you weren’t REALLY a Christian. If you were baptist you believed one thing, methodists another, Catholics…well they weren’t really Christian, they were Catholic. Evangelicals were our cousins, and fundamentalists well…they were the crazies. And in the end…they were just my brothers and sisters. They all believed in God with the same passion I did.

Why can’t we just be believers? Why can’t we just love God, follow Jesus, and do what the Bible says we should?

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