Emergent "Motivational Posters"
Some of these are pretty funny, but they felt a bit cynical too. Is Phil really wanting to diss words like "tolerance", "mystery" and "apologetics"?
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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I agree. Phil is from Macarthur's church - Grace Community Church, which is quite conservative - theologically and culturally. Phil's criticisms here seem to come off more as cultural ones than theological ones.
For example he seems to think that people who dress up in "grunge" style are all moronic sheep following a particular trend. Some do, of course, but there are people who just dress that way anyway.
You can make the same criticism of the suits and ties and Sunday dresses that get worn at Grace Community every Sunday (I visited there once). But since the dress is "conservative" in its style means it doesn't get addressed. More than that, it becomes just the same as the grunge style in that people feel compelled to wear that stuff to fit in.
When I went (1991) I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and felt terribly out of place. Some people assumed that I was a seeker.
i had some friends who went about 5 years ago... they felt the same.
they also said that the dress code of the church stuck out like a sore thumb - i hink the area is a bit of a hicksville... so they are doing their best to alienate the hicks and then make them conform when they come to church!
It's located in the San Fernando Valley, which is an urban area to the north of Los Angeles.
So it's not Hicksville.
I don't think Phil is dissing those words, he's just dissing the inappropriate ways the Emergent Church uses them.
The Borg shoots, she scores, the crowd goes wild!!
There's no dress code at Grace Community church. I've been there many times, and there are LOTS of people who wear jeans and t-shirts.
Also, where in those posters do you see "criticisms" that have anything to do with how people DRESS anyway?
The posters seem to focus on attitudes, and some of them are dead accurate.
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