Re: What is 'emerging church'?
Re: What is 'emerging church'?
I have been reading through this site and find it very informative and promising. I am, however, moved to ask the following: It would seem to me that all the world’s religions have similar questions and issues to solve - why would a site called "OpenSourceTheology" be limited to Christianity? Clearly the goal is to find a way to bring people who have left the organized "church" back into the fold. This is a noble goal. I think this is an opportunity to do something bigger - bring people from all religions (organized or otherwise) together to discuss the commonality in theology. There is so much that divides people these days and religion is one more of those things. I don’t mean just between Jews and Christians - it can be between reform and othordox jews, catholics and protestants…the list goes on.
There seems to be a lot of time spent trying to understand what the bible may or not mean, what the new testament may or may not have meant. Was Jesus even in favor or organized religion? Based upon his actions it would appear he was not. Afterall, faith without deeds…
Does a devout Christian really believe that a person who does not accept Jesus is going to hels? Is that what Jesus would have preached? Something has been lost in the translation.
If this site is just an attempt to bring Christians back to their church then I suggest renaming the site to OpenSourceChristianity. If this is truely OST then the goal should be towards unifying all the good things that the worlds religions have in common and breaking down these human imposed barriers.
Just my humble opinion - what do you think?
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