Comments on: “Better Homes and Gardens” http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2005/11/01/better-homes-and-gardens/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:51:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: the Foolish Sage http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2005/11/01/better-homes-and-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-287 the Foolish Sage Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:44:50 +0000 http://rmfo-blogs.com/cozart/?p=53#comment-287 So I fail to see how this can be a useful critique. So there are slacker emergents. And there are slackers in charismatic churches and liberal churches and fundamentalist churches and...*gasp* in Horton's own Reformed church as well, I'd venture to guess. Proves exactly nothing. So I fail to see how this can be a useful critique. So there are slacker emergents. And there are slackers in charismatic churches and liberal churches and fundamentalist churches and…*gasp* in Horton’s own Reformed church as well, I’d venture to guess. Proves exactly nothing.

]]> By: cozart http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2005/11/01/better-homes-and-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-284 cozart Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:28:35 +0000 http://rmfo-blogs.com/cozart/?p=53#comment-284 i would definitely not be surprised to find Emergents or Emergent leaders who have a real thirst for knowledge and truth in the same way that Horton, or you and i, do. i think what he's largely responding to, though, is the perceived notion of the Emergent movement as a whole, the wheat with the tares. while he may, like Crouch, be lumping megachurchism a bit with Emergents, i think it's safe to say that a good number of Emergents, particularly attendees rather than leaders, fit the descriptions of both Crouch and Horton. at least, i find that to be true in most of the people i know who consider themself to be Emergents, and those i know who know Emergents. but that may be due to the vast braodness of the movement which makes it hard to pin the movement, as a whole, down. something which, again, is not that surprising in a movement that, largely, calls for the contextualization of the Gospel to different situations, periods in history, and people groups. i would definitely not be surprised to find Emergents or Emergent leaders who have a real thirst for knowledge and truth in the same way that Horton, or you and i, do. i think what he’s largely responding to, though, is the perceived notion of the Emergent movement as a whole, the wheat with the tares. while he may, like Crouch, be lumping megachurchism a bit with Emergents, i think it’s safe to say that a good number of Emergents, particularly attendees rather than leaders, fit the descriptions of both Crouch and Horton. at least, i find that to be true in most of the people i know who consider themself to be Emergents, and those i know who know Emergents.

but that may be due to the vast braodness of the movement which makes it hard to pin the movement, as a whole, down. something which, again, is not that surprising in a movement that, largely, calls for the contextualization of the Gospel to different situations, periods in history, and people groups.

]]> By: the Foolish Sage http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2005/11/01/better-homes-and-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-281 the Foolish Sage Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:28:23 +0000 http://rmfo-blogs.com/cozart/?p=53#comment-281 Once again I find myself mystified by a critique that doesn't describe any emergent person I know...and I know a good cross-section of them in the Philly area. Just like Crouch, Horton sounds like he's describing the suburbanite mega-church attender much more than typical emergents. Makes me wonder if these critics have actually met very many "rank and file" emergents. "Wanting things dumbed down"?? Give me a break. The emergent leaders I've met were some of the best read people I know. Once again I find myself mystified by a critique that doesn’t describe any emergent person I know…and I know a good cross-section of them in the Philly area. Just like Crouch, Horton sounds like he’s describing the suburbanite mega-church attender much more than typical emergents. Makes me wonder if these critics have actually met very many “rank and file” emergents. “Wanting things dumbed down”?? Give me a break. The emergent leaders I’ve met were some of the best read people I know.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2005/11/01/better-homes-and-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Geof F. Morris Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:45:06 +0000 http://rmfo-blogs.com/cozart/?p=53#comment-278 I'm not surprised that you most agreed with the Reformed person. ;) I’m not surprised that you most agreed with the Reformed person. ;)

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