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alt.worshipFirst Presbyterian Church Midland, Texas is developing an emerging worship service designed to engage post moderns and others seeking a new worship experience. Our worship will be an ancient-future experience as we blend the heritage of our faith with a worship style that leads the participants into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. [...]
Are any of you aware of any emerging congregations in upstate New York, particularly near Albany?
Thanks,
Rich
Many of you know that I will be presenting the following workshop at the Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church Conference in two weeks (it’s not too late to register).
Presbymergent Polity 101: Worship, Sacraments and (Dis)Order
Many view the Book of Order as a rigid, rule-focused guide for saying more about what one “can’t” do [...]
An Emergent friend, Spencer Burke, wants everyone in the presbymergent network to consider attending a learning party he’s hosting in the Bahamas, less than 90 days from now.
If you are planning on being there, please leave a comment so that presbymergents can locate each other while meeting on tropical beaches, umm, I mean, conference [...]
..if the Emergents are a movement, what are the songs to which they march?
I’ve been trying something unusual: three stations every worship service, for interactive, hands-on theology, as in physical participation in the weekly worship meditation time. I’m getting stale on creativity. Several weeks of journaling about the topic seems boring. Any ideas or potential sources for ways we might tap into new ideas out there?
I have done [...]
Karen Sloan and I had our seminar, entitled “Practice & Presbyterianism: Emergence as Reformation” today at Mainline Emergent/s. We began the seminar with a word-association activity: we asked everyone to think about what words or phrases came to mind when they thought of 1) Presbyterians, 2) Emergent and 3) Presbyterian Emergent (Presbymergent). Some of the [...]
