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The Emerging Church: Discerning A Missional Milieu-Audio Content

Darrin Patrick speaks at the Francis A. Schaeffer Lectures at Covenant Seminary in St Louis, Missouri.

Session One 

One of the confusing things about the emerging church is to try to figure out what the teams are. To define the emerging church is similar to the futile attempt to nail gelatin to a solid wall. Many have attempted to classify the emerging church. Most of the time these classifications are met with both approval and disdain. Darrin Patrick anticipates the same response as he offers his taxonomy regarding the so-called emerging church. Here is his offering to the "emerging church classification conversation."

Session One Audio: The History and Streams of the Emerging Church

Session Two 

One of the confusing things about the emerging church is to try to figure out what the terms mean. Buzzwords abound in the emerging church: Kingdom, Missional, Authenticity, Mystery, Community and Narrative. What do these words mean? How do you define them? Do those in the emerging church even agree on definitions?

What is interesting is that many of the same words are used and defined almost the exact same way across the various streams of the emerging church. However, the words "missional" and the "Kingdom" have radically different definitions in the emerging church as you will hear. Enjoy.

Session Two Audio: Popular Terms of the Emerging Church

Session Two Audio: Q & A

Session Three

There are many good things in the emerging church. The focus on living authentically in biblical community as well as the desire to reach people in culture are good things. There are bad things in the emerging church such as the fascination with deconstructing almost everything while building almost nothing. And there are ugly things in the emerging church: conversing about God's Word to the neglect of obeying it, deviating from historical orthodoxy and the lack of clarity regarding issues of theology and sexuality.

In the final lecture on the "Emerging Church," Darrin Patrick gives his own assessment of what is the good, the bad and the ugly of the church that is emerging.

Session Three Audio: Emerging Church-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (including Q & A)