The Great Emergence

A week ago I added some comments about a recent book under Lousy Pastor. The other night I was outside working in the yard when my neighbor starts talking about a book by Phyllis Tickle. I asked, "The Great Emergence"? And he said, "Yeah, I just finished it. Would you like to read it"? So during the Penn State /Michigan game I started reading. (There is a lot of down time during a football game.) I highly recommend it.

Here is the thesis: every 500 years there is a transformation in church life. The Great Schism, The Reformation, etc. Someone may assign a time or a date or a person' s name but the seeds were sown long before the date. So here in 2008 the waters are already rising and we may have a few years before the dam breaks--but break it will. 200 years from now some historian will write about it and set a date with someone's name assigned but we know that this movement--The Great Emergence--began when a bunch of malcontents started crying in the river.

Every tear shed for the church as she should be makes the river rise. Keep it up guys.