Pulpit Magazine

(By Phil Johnson)
This is the final part of Phil’s seminar transcript from the 2006 Shepherds’ Conference.
Does the ECM have anything right?
What about those “valid points”?
At the beginning I said I think some valid points have been made by people in the “emerging church movement,” and some of you might be thinking everything I’ve said since […]

(By Phil Johnson)
This is a continuation of Phil’s seminar-transcript from the 2006 Shepherds’ Conference.
My three main concerns
What else could possibly be wrong with the “emerging church movement”? (I’m not going to try for an exhaustive list. I wish you could see the stack of books I had to read over the past year as I […]

(By Phil Johnson)
This is a continuation of Phil’s seminar-transcript from the 2006 Shepherds’ Conference.
Becoming cognizant of emergent
Now, if you men represent a typical cross-section of conservative evangelical pastors, in all likelihood, most of you had probably never even heard of the “emerging church movement” eighteen months ago. The issue more or less began to come […]

(By Phil Johnson)
This is a continuation of Phil’s seminar-transcript from the 2006 Shepherds’ Conference.
The “movement” is not monolithic
Before we move on, I want to reemphasize something important and elaborate on it just a bit: What I just gave you was a quick, broad-brush description of the “emerging church movement.” There are lots of nuances and […]

(By Phil Johnson) 
This is a continuation of Phil’s seminar-transcript from the 2006 Shepherds’ Conference.
Definition
With that as background, let me attempt to give you something that approximates a definition of this movement—this thing—that we all agree resists any kind of precise definition.
Some important disclaimers. I hope you won’t be surprised or dismayed when people who are devoted to […]