Church: stop ‘doing it’

http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/churchlife/church_stop_doing_it/

[sydneyanglicans.net] 30 Apr 2009--The “Emerging/Emergent Church” movement, by its own intention, is impossible to define or even describe properly.

However, what seems in common is that all such Emergents believe the church must engage in the missio dei (that is Latin for “Mission of God”).

It is argued that God is working. The responsibility and task of the church is do what God is doing.

The understanding that the church should be active in doing the mission of God makes us ask questions about whether our churches are doing enough. This is not a new question. Many of us, long before the Emerging Church, have asked this question because we have felt the stagnation that often besets churches.