Five Streams of the Emerging Church

Yesterday I read through Scot McKnight's excellent article 'Five Streams of the Emerging Church' again. I know it has been referenced a few times here, and I thought for sure there was a post about it, but couldn't find one. I also realize it's a pretty old article (from CLEAR back in January of '07). :) Anyway, here are a few lines I thought might be of interest to some who read here. I certainly recommend the whole thing. And as a reminder - Scot is going to be the Ritz Lectures speaker at Winebrenner Seminary on January 9.

Some quotes from the article:

• Postmodernity cannot be reduced to the denial of truth. Instead, it is the collapse of inherited metanarratives (overarching explanations of life) like those of science or Marxism. Why have they collapsed? Because of the impossibility of getting outside their assumptions.
• I know of no one in the emerging movement who believes that one's relationship with God is established by how one lives. Nor do I know anyone who thinks that it doesn't matter what one believes about Jesus Christ. But the focus is shifted. Gibbs and Bolger define emerging churches as those who practice "the way of Jesus" in the postmodern era.
• Unless you proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ, there is no good news at all - and if there is no Good News, then there is no Christianity, emerging or evangelical.
• Any movement that is not evangelistic is failing the Lord. We may be humble about what we believe, and we may be careful to make the gospel and its commitments clear, but we must always keep the proper goal in mind: summoning everyone to follow Jesus Christ and to discover the redemptive work of God in Christ through the Spirit of God.