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2 unusual facts about Emerging church


Emerging church

According to Ian Mobsby, the suggestion that the emerging church is mainly focused on deconstruction and the rejection of current forms of church should itself be rejected.

Participants in the movement exhibit a particular concern for the effect of the modern reader's cultural context on the act of interpretation echoing the ideas of postmodern thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Stanley Fish.


Kyle Lake

Kyle Lake (June 12, 1972 – October 30, 2005) was pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, USA and an author and leader in the Emerging Church movement.


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John Drane

He has been a personal guest of HM Queen Elizabeth II at her Scottish home, Balmoral Castle, while also being regarded as an important theological resource person for the emerging church in the UK (he is deputy chair of the board of mission shaped ministry, which is part of the Fresh Expressions initiative of the Church of England).