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Emergent Waco Cohort

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Emergent Waco Cohort

The purpose of the group is to promote robust conversation about the church and Christianity in today’s world (or perhaps you like the term “emerging church”).

For more information, contact Adam Moore


Emergent Waco

  1. Bono quote
    Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

    - steve

  • Meeting and Reading Schedule
    How (Not) to Speak of God, by Peter Rollins. Here's the schedule:

    Tuesday lunch, April 22 @ Food for Thought - topic: "What is 'church'?"

    Tuesday lunch, May 6 @ Taco Cabana - topic: "What does it mean to be a Christian?"

    Tuesday lunch, May 20 - discuss Part 1 of 2 from How (Not) to Speak of God

    Tuesday lunch, June 3 - discuss Part 2 of 2 from How (Not) to Speak of God

    Ok, so that's the schedule for the next four meetings. After that, the plan is to read N.T. Wright's Surprised by Hope. This is a much longer book so we'll spend more time on it. No schedule at this point.

    Go ahead and order both of these books. Or borrow or steal them from someone in the cohort - do whatever it takes.

    I'm looking forward to going through these books with everyone. Should be great.

    - Adam

  • (next) Books
    Signs of Emergence by Kester Brewin

    Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler-Bass

    How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins

    The Fidelity of Betrayal by Peter Rollins

    Surprised By Hope by N.T. Wright

    Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne

    What Would Jesus Deconstruct? by John Caputo

    The New Christians by Tony Jones

    (Listed in no particular order)

    -Steve (and Adam)

  • Next Emergent Waco Meeting
    map).

    No agenda. Just good conversation.

    See you then.

  • Wish I’d said this
    this from N.T. Wright at God's Politics:

    Jesus came with a job to do, to complete the work to which Israel was called. This work, from the call of Abraham onwards, was to put the human race to rights, and so to put the whole creation to rights. As the gospel writers tell the story, this task was to be accomplished by Jesus bringing about the sovereign healing rule of the creator God. Jesus was addressing the question, "What might it look like if God was running this show?" And answering, "This is what it looks like: just watch." And then, "just listen." In what he did, and in the stories he told, Jesus was announcing and inaugurating what he referred to as "the kingdom of God," the long-awaited hope that the creator God would run the whole show, on earth as in heaven.

    Can you say more than this in 140 words or less? I couldn't.

    - Steve

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