Ranges Community Church

Alan Hirsch has given further clarification of the differences between ‘Emergent/Emerging compared to missional and incarnation. It would appear by the article that Alan is putting, emergent/emerging almost in the same bucket as the church growth movement. That they are renewal aspects of the Church. You can get your spin on the article here.

This is clearly not the same as the core ideas that inform the terms ‘emerging church’ or ‘Emergent’ (the organization that largely represents it in the US at least). Whilst some people in the emerging church are deeply concerned about organizing around missional ideas, And while there are certainly aspects of missional approaches throughout the movement, the same can be said for all churches, including the church growth movement which is is opposed to. in my opinion what is expressed through Emergent, the Alt-Worship movement, and what has been called Post-Evangelicalism, is not by-and-large a missionary movement, but is rather what I would call a renewal movement.