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# Learning to dance
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2004121learning-to-dance-html/
- Published: 2004-12-01T15:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:35:12.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Faith, #DashHouseCom, #wp

From [Emergesque](http://faithmaps.blogspot.com/2004/12/criticism-of-emerging-church-faithful.html?ref=dashhouse.com):

> I have no doubt that the emerging church and mainstream evangelicalism have something to learn reciprocally. I do doubt that this conversation will occur without pain. Unfortunately, when we are at our worst, we might have a tendency to [absolutize and “demonize”](http://www.next-wave.org/jun01/conflict.htm?ref=dashhouse.com). But the conversation does not have to be a fight; it can be a dance – a beautiful dance of thesis/antithesis working its way toward a greater grasp of truth, a more profound experience of community, and even a closer relationship with the One Who knows all truth. This can occur when those who disagree: -remember that a gentle answer turns away wrath, -lean toward the other rather than away, -seek very hard to listen, -ask non-rhetorical and genuinely curious questions, -do the very difficult spadework of working to understand the presuppositions of the other, -believe the best about the other rather than the worst, -and, most importantly, be willing to provisionally consider that the other may be saying something of value – that they might even be able to correct. If these things are done, the coming storm might yield a beautiful harvest.

Right on.