Last week Scott McClellan told us that "emerging" is no longer a useful term. This week he shared a link about how the emerging church is emerging out of existence. From the Out of Ur blog:
"The emerging church will disappear." That is what my informant told me as we shared drinks at our clandestine watering hole. ... Now comes word from recognized leaders and voices within the emerging church movement that the term has become so polluted that it is being dropped. ... ... As the emerging church rides off into the sunset, where does that leave things? Well, news has been leaking about a new network being formed by Dan Kimball, Erwin McManus, Scot McKnight, and Bob Roberts among others.
So this is interesting. The term is already being dropped. I suppose when a term goes-on being undefined or refers to too many opposite things, it's meaningless. I wonder what is this "new network" being formed?
What does "emerging" mean to you?
