More on the e-word

That's emerging if you don't know, a word we're all getting sick of. Andrew Jones is on a roll this week with some great stuff, including this reply from Michael Horton. Horton is argues, for instance, that the missional focus of the ec is great, but not at the expense of Word and Sacrament, which perhaps is getting lost:

In short, the church needs to be both mother and missionary. As simply mother, she can create a suffocating environment...You get the feeling that the kids just don