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Que maneira do cristão seja ye?

Escrito por Marca Camionete Steenwyk: Maio 21, 2006

Scot McKnight é perguntando a povos que maneira do cristão são. Eu sou certo, como sempre, a discussão será completamente interessante.

Então eu li o borne, sua votação simultânea revelou o seguinte:

Evangelical 37.7%
Borne-evangelical 35.8%
Outro 10.3%
Charismatic 5.4%
Liberal do Mainline 4.4%
Anabaptist 2.5%
Roman - catholic 1.5%
Orthodox do leste 1.0%
Igreja da casa 1.0%
Nenhum

Eu selecionei “borne-evangelical.” Mas isso era somente porque você poderia somente escolher um. O problema é que I, como muitos estes dias, categorization do defy.

Embora meus evangelicals werent dos pais' exatamente (meu mom era anti-religião e meu dad era um Mormon decorrido) mim são geralmente de um fundo evangelical (” conservado” no acampamento do Bible em meus teens). Atualmente, eu sou uma parte do general do Baptist Conferência-que é completamente evangelical.

Mas a igreja evangelical de meus teens era charismatic e mandava um pastor-Eu do mennonite ainda considerar-se myself charismatic (though mais provavelmente eu devo ser chamado “borne” charismatic).

Meu pastor velho do mennonite deixou uma marca, entretanto. Atualmente, minha igreja está perseguindo a duplo-afiliação com o Mennonites. Theologically, eu sou mennonite bonito (pacifist etc.).

Ao mesmo tempo, minha igreja é bàsicamente neo-monastic. Nós temos muito na terra comum com o movimento da igreja da casa. Embora nós mandamos mais na terra comum com moderno abrigar as igrejas ao contrário de tradicional abrigam igrejas (igreja da borne-casa?). Não obstante nós não pensamos de nos como um hcurch da casa. Nós somos neo-monastic porque nós extraímos pesadamente de roman - theology Orthodox catholic e oriental e tradições monastic. Os Catholics têm uma tradição mais rica, em minha opinião, monastic. Mas o Orthodox têm um heritage theological mais rico. My Doctrine of God is very Orthodox. Many of their other doctrines also appeal to me.

I am decidedly a mutt. And there are tons of mutts out there–and more all the time.

When people ask what sort of category I fall into, I say that I am a neo-anabaptist post-evangelical who is the founder of a neo-monastic missional order. Usually, that doesn’t help clarify.

What do we call ourselves (or what tradition we should claim) when the old categories no longer work? How do we really root ourselves in tradition when we don’t fit into one? How do we think of denominational loyalty in light of the “emerging” freedom to identify oneself across the spectrum of traditions and beliefs?

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4 Responses to “What manner of Christian be ye?”

  1. James on May 21st, 2006 11:26 pm

    When people ask me to categorize myself, I tell them I am a Christian.

    I, like you (I assume), believe that within the Christian tradition there is both good and ‘bad’ traditions. As Jaroslav Pelikan put it in his book The Vindication of Tradition we must be willing to study the Christian tradition to discover those things that are good and profitable for Christians and embrace them, but at the same time discard and reject those traditions that are in error or destructive to the faith.

    So, like you, I must also admit to being a mutt in that I try to find those things in the tradition (whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant) that are consistent with the Word of God and/or will help draw Christians closer to their Lord.

  2. b-nut on May 22nd, 2006 9:15 am

    maybe I am a post-Christian follower of Jesus…does that exist?

  3. Blorge on May 22nd, 2006 3:08 pm

    I have a similar problem, however it is additionally complicated by the fact that I am at Luther Sem where the way that things get framed is different from my Bethel days. They don’t tend to see the distinctions that people at Bethel see as so important. Instead of asking my denominational background, they ask my confessional tradition. I feel as if I can say a lot of different things and have them all be true of me (i.e. “Emergant” or “Anabaptist” or “House Church”) but none of them seems absolutely comfortable. I have had to just let that identity part go and to just say house church and wait for follow-up questions to give out the exact nuances based on their level of interest and categories. If someone is just asking to make small-talk, then why bother giving out the full view? When it becomes relevant, I’ll distinguish further.

  4. JVD on May 26th, 2006 7:36 am

    What category do I fall into? I love God and try to love other people. Hopefully some days I do a decent job of both… Is there a category for that? JVD

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