Emergents Weblog

Church planting, church renewal, mega churches, evangelical and traditional churches - they all have they’re place. That being said it is a simple reality to be reckoned with the today that there are millions of people who do not appreciate what these organizations and denominational leaders offer. These unreached peoples are the emergents. What then might be done to enfold these folks and continue in the world of Christ, to make disciples and baptise both near and far?

Organized Churches
These institutions are vitally important and they exist as collective organizations and organisms among believers – the Church of God. They each have ministry plans, that will rally funds to fulfill the vision of those in leadership. They all aim to leverage the leadership or core group to reach out and draw in supporters and collaborators. Most have one or more worship services and offer many valuable ministries that meet real needs of people near and far.

The aim of this entry is not to denounce, discourage or discredit these marvelous instruments of God. It is to help us all explore what the Emergent Church might become and how this Church is moving throughout the world in partnership with the purposes of God.

The Emergent Church
Most often these believers aren’t members of a specific church, rather emergents are people of the Way, people on a journey, whose souls savor the grace of God, whose hearts are drawn to worship God in various ways, whose beliefs vary and dedication to God is resolute. Together with the organized churches emergents recognize that Christ called us to be the Church.

Like the gathers around Jesus and the church begun during the first century, the Emergent Church may not have a regular place of worship, buildings, altar guild or parsonage. The Emergent Church is people. These people gather publically, privately and virtually to pray for and support other sojourners, while they explore together the significant events of life in this century and how the Church can respond to the ongoing needs of humanity, creation and the will of God.

You are invited to help and join in this journey. Please feel free to share your thoughts, your actions and aspirations as to how this webspace might be the expression of emergents around the world.

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The Worldwide Interfaith Association provides valuable resources and strategies to help these institutions plant and strengthen various churches; it serves as an association of believers, who being the Church, exist to share God’s light, grace and Truth throughout the world.   WIA is a non-profit, unincorporated religious association.