Tony Campolo is a bit naive
Written by Mark Van Steenwyk : December 15, 2004
Check out this post on House Church Blog. The post refers to an article by Tony Campolo.
In the article, Tony Campolo describes the emergent movement as a sort of utopian ideal: decisions by concensus, urban engagement, everyone is actively involved, etc. You can read my fuller response on House Church Blog, but it seems that Mr. Campolo and many others are so enamored by the ideals of the emergent movement that they don’t see how woefully most emergent churches fall short of the ideal. I don’t want to tear down the emergent church–that isn’t my goal. I just want people to be realistic and keep pushing forward, rather than falling into foolish thinking that would claim that the emergent church has emerged and now we can sit back and enjoy it. If the emergent movement is going to benefit the Church, it must press on, criticize itself, and press on more.
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