Emerging churches draw from the whole palate of Christian spiritual practice in their worship. They employ ancient and modern disciplines, and they try to reimagine them in contemporary ways. This is in keeping with the post-modern destruction of the sacred/secular split. Emerging churches see ancient disciplines as a way to make all of life spiritual and not just the things done in church. Disciplines are a way of constantly refocusing on God and a way of connecting to a pre-modern faith.
I also surmise that because most emerging Christians were raised in charismatic and fundamentalist churches, the more traditional and monastic practices seem particularly fresh. I don't say that as a way of invalidating their expression. There's nothing wrong with being fresh. It's just an observation not mentioned in the book.
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