Like the cab driver who turns and asks, "Where to?", the same could be asked of the emerging church. It is a conversation (movement) already torn by the issue of theology--Bad or good. My thinking is that the Driscoll led group will move more and more towards the organized church (Church 1.0 types as he likes to call them). The impact of this move will hopefully be a more "Missional" traditional church. This move seems to be obvious to me. Traditional churches are criticized for programs, but as twenty somethings have kids, the youth program will become more important.
The "emergent" guys, led by Brian McLaren, seem headed towards a hook up with the mainline denominations, where theology already is post-modern and relativistic. They will also have an impact (negative) on those "revolutionaries" that Geoerge Barna has convinced to drop out of Church and embrace the Church without commitment. This will probably lead to further abberations in beliefs.
So, my guess is that in a few years, the emerging church will have arrived, having gone in a circle back into the presently available camps.
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