Get 'em in the door and get 'em saved, but don't tell 'em what those old fashioned Christians are doing, because you don't want to push them away. If they knew what Jesus was really like, they would never reject the Gospel! Thus concludes the New part of the church building strategy.
The Ancient part builds validity with anyone concerned about traditional churchiness, all-important to establishing a valid denomination which out of feigned piety rejects denominationalism. The problem is, the old tooth pulling system has a monopoly on historical and theological validity. So how then does one trying to build a house on the sand make its foundation seem like that of the rock-founded teeth pullers? Get ahold of some of that old. Find certain rituals in the Bible, reinterpret them to be relevant to today's spiritualist, and do that in church! The best way to go about finding tradition which might give a place of truth seeking some Ancientness, is to borrow some from the catholics. When it comes to tradition, that's something they're good at. Catholic tradition, coffee, and pew-couches.
This concludes the New but Ancient portion of the encyclopedic entry on the Seeker Friendly Emergent Postmodern Church
p.s. (although the emergents don't like the seeker-friendlies, the most famous seeker church has now employed the emergents to give them an extreme makeover church edition, which means that many seekers will be emerging in the near future)
So here's the plan - I know some buhddists and some Hindus and some Rasta's. Sure, they're all Anglo European white people, but they're genuine seekers, and there's alot of truth in what they say. I mean, Who said the Bible has a monopoly on the truth? Come on people, if God wanted us to only find truth in the Bible, why would He have allowed all the other books in the world to exist? So let's find the Biblical truth through the words of their prophets. Food for thought. Here, play Frisbee across the church pew-couches while I not preach.
You know, instead of reading a sermon. What ever this is I do every Sunday when I get up in and talk to the meeting of seekers (congregation, for the old-fashionedist) in the pew-couches.... see how this New but Ancient thing works out?
I know, sarcastic... I'll tone it down a little later... but hopefully my point has been made.
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aha. ahaha. ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
winner.
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