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Sensationalist “Heretics”

I haven’t done this in a while, this is a reply of sorts to Spencer Burke’s arti­cle “The Illu­sion of the ‘Emerg­ing Church’” which can be found at: http://www.theooze.com/articles/article.cfm?id=2407.

I find com­ment­ing on these kinds of arti­cles dif­fi­cult, not because I don’t know what to say (often times, I have too many things to say and don’t know where to begin), but because I don’t so much dis­agree (though I do dis­agree) as find a few of the things being said to be unwise. Spencer Burke is an author, and in my mind that makes him a teacher, a leader, and some­one who other peo­ple look up to and fol­low. One of the things Burke says that both­ers me is, “I know I have had my fair share of hereti­cal moments and I live by the motto ‘If I am not a lit­tle embar­rassed about what … (Read more)