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# Bill Easum on the emerging church
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200891bill-easum-on-the-emerging-church-html/
- Published: 2008-09-01T17:46:27.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:31:32.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Emerging Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[Bill Easum begins a “blogologue”](http://billeasum.com/20080826/the-conversations-of-our-times-part-two/?ref=dashhouse.com) with the emerging church:

> *The Key issue I have with the Emergent movement is this – Is the message of the Gospel actual reality and eternally true, or is it nothing more than a construct of our own language within the community of faith at this particular time in history in this particular place with this particular community?* The emerging movement says we can never really know the reality of the Gospel apart from our communal language- that is our talk within the community constructs the gospel- which brings us very close to relativism. When accused of being relativistic in their thought they respond by saying everything is relative. Emergents remind me more of philosophers than theologians.

> The Emergents want to change the theological dialogue so that it can have better conversation with the theology of the marketplace. They are rethinking how theology changes in culture, a very dangerous approach to ministry. I don’t feel as if we have to adopt a postmodern faith in order to reach the postmodern world. That’s far too much compromise. We also don’t have to adopt a postmodern faith in order to address the issues raised by these emerging leaders.

[more](http://billeasum.com/20080826/the-conversations-of-our-times-part-two/?ref=dashhouse.com)