I look at it this way:
Jesus taught in parable for a reason. When he referenced the Scripture of his own day, he didn’t launch into PhD level discourse. He expressed his radical, new interpretations in an idiom that his audience was prepared to hear and capable of absorbing.

I see a lot of rethinking going on here, but I don’t see much in the way of effort to make sure we bring the commonfolk along with us. That makes me concerned that this emerging church has the attitude that:
a) They need to wait until all the rethinking is “done” before trying to share it with the hoi polloi. However, this kind of dialog rarely has an “end”, I don’t see things ever being “done” enough to then begin the phase of re-expressing our findings to the masses.
b) There is a sense (maybe unconsciously) that if people want to be part of “this” they need to boot strap themselves out of their own ignorance. Since this notion lacks charity, it worries me.

But maybe this is the wrong environment to observe that part of the “emerging conversation”, and that’s fine. I am just learning my way around, and trying to figure out of I have a place in all this. I apologize if my questions sting, I don’t intend criticism. I have found myself in the past caught up in a lot of movements that eventually proved quite troubling, and so I am approaching this with a great deal of circumspection.