紧急在姊妹城市
写由Mark范· Steenwyk ： 2004年11月22日
大卫Opderbeck (谁我补充说到我的blogroll)要求我为什么姊妹城市在紧急或missional对话似乎活跃地介入。 我认为我们比我们的人口会担保有更多影响。 这我的想法关于为什么我们是这样沃土为missional或紧急讨论：
- 我们有学术机关的高数量为我们的相对地小市区。 学术味道过剩入怎样我们“”教会。
- 圣地和Luther温床是两个因素。 圣地有对事的紧急边的某一贡献(Erwin McManus是附属与圣地)。 Luther对事的missional边贡献(Craig ·范· Gelder是福音书和我们的文化网络的部分并且是教授在Luther)。
- 我们有兆教会的最高的人均数量在国家。 我认为，当人们得到幻灭与此，他们移动朝供选择的形式。 因为我们有更多兆教会幻灭我们，它似乎逻辑我们？d有更加紧急的教会被负担出于那幻灭。
- 我们是“蓝色”状态。 我们的市区是非常进步，但以中西部的文化价值背景。 这意味着我们？ll价值教会，但我们？ll做它用一个进步方式。 传统上，那意味自由主义者的高数量静脉注射教会，然而，许多选择做教会紧急方式。
- 道格Paggitt是一个先驱在紧急运动，并且他偶然是所在地男孩。 除Solomon的门廊以外，我们有非常紧急教会的早例子，象精神慈悲车库和议院。
These are just a few speculations. Anyone care to add and/or challenge this list?
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I would add what could be taken as a somewhat negative reason: we have lots of white people. We still have one of the highest majority populations of white people in the country, and the emergent movement has been a largely white movement, although of course I know there are noteable exceptions.
I think that the ethos of the Twin Cities is liberal and geared towards social justice. Emergent churches are concerned with social justice, therefore we have a lot of emergent churches around here.
To respond to Chris’ whities statement, there is also a growing missional church movement around here, even including some of the ‘mega’ churches such as Park Ave Methodist and Bethlehem Baptist, who are both fairly diverse. Mega churches such as Woodland Hills (Greg Boyd) and Bethlehem Baptist (John Piper) are both trying to embrace ecclesial multiculturalism. Chris may think that they may have a ways to go in some respects, but at least they’re trying.
Notable exceptions.