I Guess it's Dead?

I’m a little late on the draw for this one but apparently the Emergent Church has been declared dead. I would consider myself emergent so I guess that’s a bummer. So I haven’t been able to fully catch up on the conversation because the internet is not so hot over here but I’m still going to share my 2 cents.

First, I’m not sure how something that doesn’t really have a shape and minimal structure could be dead? Emergent came in many forms. Some I absolutely loved while others I wasn’t too big a fan of (cough Mark Driscoll cough). Dang I’m judgmental, I’m keeping it in though. Without leadership or accruing of funds, I guess the emergent church is easy to dissolve its formless structure.

I read that the main complaint about the Emergent Church was that it was too white. Yeah I guess that’s true. In the emergent circles I was involved in only had a few people of different ethnic backgrounds. Too be honest, I don’t really know what the deal is. I believe this criticism is fair but I don’t think that it’s only the emergent church with a diversity problem. I think the church as a whole is struggling with a diversity problem and I don’t really have a clue how it can be fixed?

I don’t think its dead. I don’t know if it was ever alive, regardless of the emergent church’s vitals, things are changing in the American church. Regardless of the shape or form of the existence of the emergent church I hope and pray and believe that’s its cornerstone elements conversation and community will live on.