From Parchment and Pen:10. You start a Christian blog, but leave it blank, fearing that you might offend someone.9. You are not any good at art, yet you continue to present the Gospel by painting stick figures on recycled paper.8.

That’s a good and important question, Miles.

Joanie D.

I think the key phrase is “too far.” This would not be an accurate representation of the emerging church, but it might be a parody of someone who has taken the thoughts of the emerging church too far.

The emerging church is non-conformist, but not necessarily to the degree of this top ten list.

Sometime, we will come up with one for evangelicalism.

These are simply meant to help us not take ourselves too seriously.

Thanks for the comments once again.

I think this list is great. I also noticed something disturbing. If this list were an accurate representation of the emerging church (which it could very well be), there appears to be a great effort at being non- conformist, or non-religious. The problem though takes shape when you become religious about being non -religious.

Doesnt evangelicalism suffer from the same problem? Our love for Jesus has gotten lost in the religions of anti-abortionism, anti-homosexualism (Im not even sure if thats a word), anti-feminism and others that are on a sort of “top ten reasons you know Im evangelical” type of list. In the process we have become irrelevent. Jesus made a very profound statement:”Woe unto the you, scribes and Pharisees (insert evangelicals?), hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cimmin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, jugdement, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone”(Matt.23:23). We have done our religious duties, and thats great. But do we really do what matters?

Just an early morning rant. Thanks for the space.

Miles