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October 16, 2005
The growing attention paid to the "emerging church" has certainly got people talking. And whatever the "emerging church" is, it seems to be quite a chameleon.

James K.A. Smith

The growing attention paid to the "emerging church" has certainly got people talking. And whatever the "emerging church" is, it seems to be quite a chameleon. Depending on who you talk to, it's either the latest threat to biblical faith or that which will save us from two thousand years of error! I don't think either the alarmists or the triumphalists are right on this score, for a variety of reasons.

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