John Armstrong on the Emerging Church

John Armstrong, founder and president of ACT 3, was recently taken to task by John MacArthur in the latter’s most recent book, The Truth War. Armstrong weighs in on the emerging church controversy offering a clarification of his position and a critique of those who too hastily condemn without carefully listening.

Most of the critics on the right have not bothered to read this movement carefully and thus these critics level massive broadsides against something that is still quite small and young. I prefer to interact, to listen and to give these friends time. The broadside approach looks and feels like old fundamentalism dressed in modernist epistemology. The more open approach, that wants to listen and learn, gets labeled as “liberal” by people of fear and personal suspicion who react to all new forms that do not fit their notion of how things ought to be.

Read the whole article at his blog.

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