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The "vortex" of reformation
By Jeremy | March 23, 2007
But would you place the emerging church with Evangelicalism, or it is something else? No, it’s not evangelicalism. American religion has four, pretty much equally divided, quadrants. Evangelicalism is one of them, charismatic Pentecostalism is another, the old mainline or social just Christians is a third quadrant, and then the liturgicals. And where the quadrants meet in the center there’s a vortex like a whirlpool and they are blending. So, much of the political energy is evangelical. There’s no question about that. Much of the religious energy is Pentecostal, but that’s combined with the strong ballast of social consciousness and of applied gospel that comes out of the mainline. And into the mix comes the liturgical traditions with the great gifts of the heritage of the church. And the emerging church is bringing these different elements of the church back together. The problem has been that since the Reformation belief for most of the people has gone north to the head. The emergents, supposedly, are saying it needs to go south to the heart. I don’t think it needs to go south at all. I think it needs to meet somewhere in the strength of the lifeâ€â€mind, heart, spirit and strength. Belief needs to be incarnated. The response for the emergents has been to incarnate their beliefs right in their own neighborhoodsâ€â€and that’s wonderful. They want to live where they worship, that’s great. The problem is ...HT: Andrew Jones.down loan land 0financing 100 apartment loan97 stated commercial loansaccord loanloan environment 200 bank10000 providers loandollar 1000 loans$15000 loan Map
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