Are you confused about the talk about emerging churches or the Emergent movement? Do you wonder if there exsist some way of understanding what these groups are doing or aren’t doing? I found Scot McKnight’s Feb. 2007 Christianity Today article to be very helpful. Scot outlines five streams that characterize or influence the emerging church. He also clarifies some of the terminology that is used by these groups and others describing them. It should be noted that the viewpoint Scot shares is largely from within, but his perspective is not without a critical eye.
Probably the best summarizing quote in the article: “I see the emerging movement much like the Jesus and charismatic movements of the 1960a, which undoubtedly have found a place in the quilt called evangelicalism.”
