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Why should you care about the emerging church? Traditionally there have been two sides to the Christian circle, liberals and evangelicals. Liberals were not orthodox theologically–but the cutting edge of Christian thought has been liberal thought, and they were very active in advancing social justice for underprivileged people. Evangelicals have not been very active on the social justice front, but were active in evangelism and had solid theology. The emerging church is trying to bring Christ to the postmodern world and as a result are encountering a lot of social justice issues. At the same time they are pushing evangelicals to look at theology in a new way while remaining faithful to orthodoxy.

So if you care about issues such as racism, sex trafficking, homeless, starving in children in Africa, women in ministry, homosexuality–a lot of the issues that conservative churches are ignoring–you should care about the Emerging Church

If you are interested in contextualization, postmodernism, ethnic/cultural issues, missiology, and house churches/ecclesiology, then you should be interested in the Emerging Church.

If you want to reach out to your non-Christian friends but don’t know how because they are so different from you, then you should be interested in the Emerging Church.  How many of you have had friends that you’ve grown up with in the church, drop out of church and Christianity?  You should be interested in the Emerging Church.