As the results show, I didn't get a very high emergent score. The quiz was ridiculously simple and clearly a publicity stunt to get people to find out about why two guys aren't emergent and to buy their book.I do have a lot of issues with some emergent stuff, although to be fair, I'm not well read.
Having worked in Melbourne now for just over a year and having being exposed to some of the politics, that in my opinion cripples this church on a diocesan level, and having seen how much weight people place on labels (eg. Evangelical, Complimentarian, Egalitarian, High Church, Anglo-Catholic, Liberal, Ridley Student, Trinity Student, Traditionalist), I'm pretty much over labels... I just love Jesus and try to live a Holy Spirit empowered changed life. If you don't do that you need to and I want to encourage you to investigate the life of Jesus again.
I trust that we're *all* complimentarian...
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Labels are pretty big here too.
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Labels can be over or under used. It sounds like you haven't taken Church History yet or you are and haven't got to the bit were Rhys descibes how labels can sometimes, when used carefully, be very useful.
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Labels can be over done but for the sake of it here is my faith routered by labels.
ReplyDeleteevagelical, third wave charismatic, God hedonist, light calvinist(believes in a reforming faith not reformed faith), believers baptist, light complimentarian, gospel focused, emerging tendencies.
Gives you some idea of what I think and believe
I agree Chris. Easy to bicker about labels and denominations etc and forget about Jesus. For the record mate, it's spelled "Complementarian" (compliment is the nice thing you say about someone!)
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