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Raise your blood pressure, the emergent way!

I have found a new way to make myself irate! I happened upon a few links to "emergent" expressions of church. The end.

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jeff said…
ditto :-)
Jude said…
As I understand it the mission of the church is to be an agent of the Kingdom, calling it out and teasing it forth from the very recesses of society.

Its not blogging about really tiny details that hapen to have miffed us the last time we went to a "congregational church".
Mimosa said…
Hi Jude, I came across your blog! I so agree with you.. Some things about Emergent have really bothered me, all the "miffing".. Greetings from Finland!

P.S. as happens to be, my word verification is "mffwd" LMAO!

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