A Friend of Mine Called Me “Emergent” Today
November 12th, 2007 | by Scott |To which I replied “Nuh Uh.”
And then he retorted “You really are.”
OK, fine but I’m not oozing, I’m not having a conversation, I don’t have a Brian McLaren bobble-head on my desk and I refuse to use the term “ancient-future.”
So there.
19 Responses to “A Friend of Mine Called Me “Emergent” Today”
By Shane on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
I was going to comment, but since I see you’re not having a conversation I will refrain.
And where can I get the McLaren bobble-head for my desk?
By Scott on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
In lieu of a conversation I have opted instead for a gathering.
By Shane on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
I always knew you were post-dialogical at heart.
By Travis on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
Are Mime’s post-dialogical, and thus Emergent?
By Scott on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
I’m definitely post-dialogical. Talking is so unnecessary. But I’m no mime.
How’s this:
All emergents are post-dialogical.
All mimes are post-dialogical.
Therefore, all mimes are…
By matt elliott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I think your friend is onto something. Sorry!
By matt elliott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
My bad. “On” and “to” should have been separate words. I’m humiliated.
By Shane on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I think I understand the problem. You’re beyond the whole emergent business because you find conversations to be no longer necessary. In my mind, that would make you a post-emergent Christian. My question is: does post-emergent imply that at heart you are a neo-sectarian?
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Matt, if my friend had a name I would make the argument that he is more emergent than I am. Let’s just use the name Travis, for example. And let’s imagine that Travis went and spend the whole day yesterday with Brian McLaren. I’m just peeking out the hole but my friend is crawling all the way out.
Neo-sectarian? Now that has some possibilities. I’m going to shop a book proposal, “A New Kind of Sectarian.” I’ll follow that up with “A Stingy Orthodoxy” I will have great credentials to right that book.
By matt elliott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Hilarious.
But you & Travis need to stop hating on McLaren. Otherwise, I’ll throw my bobblehead doll at you.
By Shane on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I can see it now:
A Stingy Orthodoxy:
Why I Am Still an Attractional + Elitist + Restorationist + Neo-Sectarian + First Century Obsessed + Truth Defending + Bibliolatrous + Cantankerous + Close-Minded + Catholic Bashing + Homophobic + Oil-Consuming-SUV-Driving + Mega Church Apologist + “Faithful” + Completely Perfected Member of THE church.
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Matt, no McLaren bashing. Just an acknowledgment that he is now my personal guru. He’s my own Dr. Oz.
Shane, now that I think of it Leroy Brownlow already wrote it.
By Phil Wilson on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I thought that book was “Behold the Pattern”…
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
I could do “Piloting the Straits of Emergence”
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Matt, in another thread, suggested “Axe on the Emerging Root”
And that’s a great idea but I will be too busy editing and publishing “The Emergent Sword.”
By Travis on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
You may diss it now, but one day the church will be fully emerged, and you will be submerged, and you will wish you would have gotten on the bandwagon with McLaren. One Day! hahahahaha
Seriously, McLaren’s cool.
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
That’s what I’m saying. I’m done with the McLaren doggin’ and getting on board.
And it’s all thanks to you, Travis. I no longer have to live in denial, slurking in dark corners and hiding my copy of “Everything Must Change”
By Shane on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Hmm…so it’s been written before, but did it have a cover like the one I just posted on my blog?
http://shanealexander.blogspot.com/2007/11/stingy-orthodoxy.html
By Scott on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply
Shane, that is great. Move over Brownlow, Alexander is the new king of contending for the faith.