Emergent Church Road Trip with Tony Jones - Episode 5

From the book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier, author Tony Jones and Trucker Frank hit the road in search of the emerging church. In this episode, Tony talks to two evangelical church planters with two very different perspectives on the emergent movement.

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• tony
• jones
• evangelical
• evangelicalism

[kedmonton]

It's one big giant conspiracy to turn the concept of church (which are non-taxable) to become a franchise (which are taxable).

[konman001]

Notice how Tony himself AVOIDS being asked questions but is VERY quick to ask other people supposedly controversial questions. He won`t even take a stand on Jesus in this video.

The stuff that he talks about is straight-out-of-the-survey stuff which brings to attention issues of human opinion but no any NEW biblical truth.

I gotta hand it to him . . . he is a master BSer.

[screwmelouis]

I'm with Jones on this one. Stop the hating!

[jesusfreakrkg]

yes.

[lepointe]

Real relationships.......... With...........

Real relationships.................­WIIITH......

GOD? Real relationships with each other?

"THE NEW CHRISTIAN", BETTER THEN "THE OLD", YOU KNOW, THE ONE THAT FOLLOWS THE BIBLE.

[kc7fys]

What if Christians were known not by how much about their complicated hair-splitting descriptions of what they believe in--but what they just did for the world that's useful and good. Christians should be known as just good people who benefit humanity. These people seem to be interested in making up self-help hogwash to talk to each other about... That's nothing new. Scuzzy clothes and facial hair are just the contemporary outward symbols of anti-establishment. (snore)

[kc7fys]

Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our slovenly clothing and unhygienic appearance--oh, and by our slouching. What's wrong with the structure, the discipline, the rigidity of laws that govern a religious discipline as Christianity. Criticizing this guy's church is just as silly as his antiquated rules are--both of you are goof-balls for trying to decide who's better. Just have your religion and chill out.

[kc7fys]

Christians who talk about the authenticity of their faith, sporting Body Mass Indices in the mid-30's are an insult to an ancient living discipline, the religious faith called Christianity.

[littleredbirdy]

He is implying God can lie and commit evil!

He is worse than a heretic.  He is a heretic in sheeps clothing.

[littleredbirdy]

Church is about feeling utterly HATED and DESPISED by God for the sinners that we are.

Hell is loading up very quickly these days.