Emerging what? Oh yeahhhh… Weren’t they like the Jesus Freaks or something??

Hey, remember back in ’09 when everyone was saying the emerging church was dead?

Good times, huh?

How’d that prediction turn out for ya? ‘Cause as far as I can tell, we’re all still here, doing our thing.

Maybe we’re all just a bunch of emerging zombies, or vampires, or some other kind of living dead just wandering around with all these wild geese everywhere…

[...] “The Emerging Church was not around long enough to be declared alive, so the announcement of its death comes with an apathetic “ho-hum” for many of you.  But it is true.  Stop the “What is the Emerging Church?” seminars. Edit the “Beware of Brian McLaren Sermons.” And don’t even entertain starting an Emerging blog.  As far as I can see, the Emerging Church is dead at 15.” (ref) [...]

the emergent church may be dead..but the movement is very alive and moving at a rapid pace taking many leaders along with it, and steering many believers down a less than biblical path. I only wish it would die the death that you speak of!

[...] “The Emerging Church was not around long enough to be declared alive, so the announcement of its death comes with an apathetic “ho-hum” for many of you.  But it is true.  Stop the “What is the Emerging Church?” seminars. Edit the “Beware of Brian McLaren Sermons.” And don’t even entertain starting an Emerging blog.  As far as I can see, the Emerging Church is dead at 15.” (ref) [...]

Im sure the “prolific insiders” will have a special place in heaven.

[...] it’s ok that such a movement is in its fade-out stage (or was already dying out, as others posted previously). And something new will arise. It might look and seem better than the emerging [...]

[...] Kind of Christianity. Brian is one of the leading voices in the emergent movement (a movement that many say is now defunct), which is simply a postmodern reclothing of theological liberalism. I’ve [...]

Um, I observe several of the largest Emerging churches in the area and around the country in very good shape. They may be in the process of renaming themselves, but for the most part many of them are doing very well including one of the most liberal Emerging churches in the country.
Now maybe start ups are not happening anymore and that is the real good thing…no more off-spring and eventually the ones in existance will die out. May take decades, but they will eventually die out.
Anyway, it will be a good thing if the Emerging church movement is dead, but I think it is still at a crawl as a movement, but those still alive are pumped and running full bore.

Unfortunately, the whole movement has gone viral. It’s on the campuses and campus ministries, in the churches right down to folks like Jack Hayford you thought would never fall for the stuff. It’s infected everything. Now you can be a Stuff White People Like christian who sits around arguing with an imported beer in one hand and a cigar in the other and feel godly cuz you talk sex trafficking. Ugh. Now I have to send my kids to college and help them navigate around the full on secular Marxists and their “support group”–the pseudo secular christian Marxists. Fun.