Emerging Churches?

This just in from the Things-That-Make-You-Go-Hummm Department: A bumper sticker spotted today says, "Home improvement begins with a King James Bible"

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Later this year (August, to be exact) IVP Academic Press will release a new book by Ray Anderson, who teaches theology at Fuller Seminary in California. The title: "An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches." The following is the book's table of contents:

Preface: What Has Antioch to Do with Jerusalem?

1. It's About Theology, Not Geography

2. It About Christ, Not Just Christology

3. It's About the Spirit, Not Just Spirituality

4. It's About the Right Gospel, Not Just the Right Polity

5. It's About Kingdom Living, Not Kingdom Building

6. It's About the Work of God, Not Just the Word of God

7. It's About the Law of Love, Not the Letter of the Law

8. It's About Community of the Spirit, Not Just the Gifts of the Spirit

9. It's About Mission, Not Just About Ministry

10. It's About the Church Ahead of Us, Not Only the Church Behind Us

I haven't read the book, but churches that style themselves "emergent," I suspect, are fortunate to have someone like Anderson providing clarification and giving some expression to what they're about and why. This should be an interesting and challenging read.