Before I continue, I want to briefly explain a semantic change I think is necessary.
I no longer want to write about "emerging churches," because the word "church" for most people implies a group of people gathered together for a church service, like what we see across the country largely on Sunday mornings. "Church" implies program. In my thinking and reflecting on the material in this book, I'm not considering programs; I'm meditating on a way of life.
That being said...
In chapter 3, we read about emerging Christians' refusal to allow a sacred/secular split. There is no inherently holy or unholy realm of society. Instead, emerging Christians seek to find ways to sacri-lize everything, that is, to make everything sacred. Is that not the incarnation, after all? Didn't Christ indwell the very thing most separated from God - mankind?
What is particularly challenging is to consider ways of worshiping with all of our lives, with everything we encounter, and not just "church" things.
The chapter goes on to describe how British Christians redeemed the club culture and found a way to turn a rave into a worship service. This is neat, but it still misses the point of worshiping God in every aspect of the Christian's life.
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