I’m not sure how often a blog ends. There seems to be plenty of blogs left on the shoulder of the information superhighway, as if the owner walked off to get gas a never returned. Well, not so here.
ReEmergent Church retires today.
I started this blog a few years ago, seeing the value that the new “Emergent Church” could have as a force for reformation in the mainline church. Indeed it has helped to reform it.
I feel that the lessons that the Emergent Church has to teach have been learned by the mainline church. Either the hard way, as churches have permanently closed their doors for failure to listen; or by becoming more local, more brokenheated about those who are suffering, more understanding of those who are different.
The mainline churches owe a word of thanks to folks like Tim Keel or Brian McLaren for highlighting the areas where the church had ceased to be a movement and fallen into the rut of “institution.”
The lessons continue to be learned, and the church continues to be challenged to be significant enough to be worth people’s time. God is still at work, inviting people to be a part of the Kingdom of God that transforms this world into a place of justice and peace. God has used the Emergent Church as an instrument to shape the mainline church, to which I am called, and push it forward. For that, I am thankful, and hopeful.
May Jesus Christ be glorified in His church now and forever. Amen.





