On May 25, 2008 we visited the church, "Ecclesia", whose pastor is Chris Seay.
This is in Houston, Texas
I did not know enough about the "Emergent Village" to have an opinion good or
bad.
It did not take long for me, however, to see through the rhetoric and
manufactured "atmosphere". It is very disheartening for me, because
family members have been attending "Ecclesia." I also took many hours
researching and reading about the "Emergent" movement.
I was raised in a dysfunctional Catholic home and later saved during the
Jesus People movement of the 1960-1970s.
The war between the Catholics and Protestants, then, is just as evident at
"Ecclesia" now, as it was then. After reading all the pseudo-intellectual angst
of Seay, McLaren,Jones...etc. it is almost amusing, the dejavu, all over
again one upmanship. The dislike and stick it to the parents "old-fashioned"
faith is nothing new. The accepting of the Medias view of Christians, and
then bending over backwards to please CNN or MSNBC is sickening and harmful.
Chris Seay bragged about accepting a speaking gig at a Baptist gathering.
While there, his young daughter made fun of the Baptists, he agreed, and spent
the rest of his time there in his hotel room playing video games and watching
movies? huh? He hates Rush Limbaugh, and can make fun of TBN as well as anyone.
Weird art is better then good art. There are enough candles and mysticism to
stick it to the Baptists, and open communion and staged casualness to stick it
to the Catholics, all done in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
While making fun of other traditions, they are trying to make their own "superior"
traditions.
>From what I gather, to be an "Emergent" or "New" Christian, you have to
shun conservatism, Hate Bush, etc. and be arrogant enough to think that you can use and interpret God's Word better then anyone else who came before you.
Support Obama or you are a warmonger. Real people don't count.
You also have

I find it very curious that we are actually worried about what people think about Christians and Christianity, especially when most of the "outsiders" don't know what it means to be Christian...thay have their ideas about it, but no working knowledge.

I guess I just have to ask if the reasons for these concerns is that Christians are tired of watching what the world calls- tolerance- being pushed around because we can not agree with what is blantly wrong and are labled hostile becasue we just can't agree with lifestyles and or actions that clearly violate God's laws. When did it become fashionable to be okay with sin?

I agree that as a whole Christians have not been as good at being Christian as we should...we have done some things we certainly knew were not godly and dared anyone to say anything. We have not really learned what Agape love is to such an extent that we exude it, but I would not beat us down because we try to live truth & someone just doe not like it.