The "emergent church" attempts to "post-modernize" how the church worships, with DJs, church members writing their names on crosses, and more. "Worship gatherings," with group discussions, are held -- not Sunday morning sermons.
"Christianity is simply not a stagnant belief," says a man interviewed in this video.
But its truths are stagnant. You can't "modernize" Christianity so far that what it is -- its truths, its laws, its principles -- is gone. You can't take it too far, or else it's not Christianity anymore.
"There's a sort of a comfort in knowing that, one, I don't have to the answers, and that there aren't necessarily answers," says one member of an emergent church, and several other interviewees made similar statements -- and that alarms me.
Of course there are answers. No, we as humans might not know them -- but the answers are there. God has the answers. They do exist. Truths exist.
We want to be encouraging, we want to influence the culture, we don't want to remain in the 1500s, we don't want to be legalistic. But we don't want to become too wishy-washy, we don't want to ignore theology and doctrine -- after all, God gave us His Word for a reason.
Some of those interviewed in the video loved that their church had group discussions, instead of having a pastor preach a sermon to them.
Jesus taught, didn't he? His disciples referred to him as "Rabbi." Teaching is important.
Postmodernism says that there is no such thing as absolute truths. Christianity says the complete opposite. Postmodernism says that you have to be accepting, that each individual should go off of what they "feel." Christianity says that humans are fallible, and that God and His Word are the final authority.
Marrying these two opposites seems pretty dangerous to me.
(More video resources here and here.)
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