Dan Kimball and Emerging Church

Dan H wrote in a comment:

I am reading 'The Emerging Church' by Dan Kimball still, and while there's not much that's new there, it's okay. But one things that bothers me with his deal on "how to do an emergent service" is... it sure would be a lot easier with a staff or resources from a larger framework.

All that said, I really think the small country church where I am is maybe "raw-er" than most. I am amazed by the teens who have come here and think our building is so beautiful and it is just so "cool" how we have all this "vintage" stuff. Some of the things I would have liked to get rid of are actually the things that many postmodern-sort-of-unchurched people are looking for to help them connect.

I haven't read Dan Kimball, though I know who he is. The guys I talk to say that Dan isn't "deeply" emerging, he is more into the vintage worship stuff. Maybe that is why you say it would be nice to have a staff. But the rest of your comment really rings true, that you have created an emerging raw feel in a churchy building. That truly is emerging, more so perhaps, than Dan Kimball. (Forgive me if I'm misreading Kimball in that I haven't personally read him.)