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Emerging in Brazil: An Update

Posted Mar 31, 09:06 AM | 0 comments | by Editor | Link

Luis Batista has announced that the Renovatio Cafe website has a new English section. Luis writes, “We have opened it with two objectives in mind: To let you know what is going here, we will have Brazilian bloggers posting in English to let you know our context, how we found the books we have read, it is, the think I try to do here; To let friends participate in our efforts in Brazil posting their messages to encourage our work on Brazilian emerging church.”

The first English article posted is “Emerging Church in the Brazilian Context” by Gustavo Frederico. He writes (on page 5*), “In the Brazilian context I think that the emerging conversation will include two streams: the evangelical and the ‘free’ one. And in the former we must consider Pentecostal versions. The evangelical stream would maintain an uninterrupted historical link with denominations or even ‘independent ministry’, even when the emerging community exits such denominations. This way the new community would be more easily identifiable as ‘church’, in the sense evangelicals conceive the term today. And the church would identify itself as ‘Christian church’. In this stream we could also expect churches or movements that live and develop inside historical denominations, perhaps with the support of the denominations. ...

“The pentecostalization of Brazil has the potential to bring positive things to the emerging conversation in the national and international stage. The characteristics of belief in the supernatural and experience with God, instead of pure rationalization of the faith, has sympathy in postmodernism.”

Frederico then goes on to discuss four “hot potato” topics for the emerging conversation in Brazil: “the Prosperity Theology, the division between sacred and secular, the rescue of the ‘brazilianness’, and leadership.”

*It’s 9 pages long, so keep clicking “Proximo” to read the whole thing.

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