Allow me an opportunity again for some emergent sarcasm.
10 indicators you may be an emergent pastor...
1) While preaching you have many 'dramatic' pauses while you think of a way to say something in a way that it will not offend anyone.
2) Your list of 'sermon topics' looks similar to that of Whole Foods Market's.
3) You believe churches that disagree with you are in a vast conspiracy to cover up true Christianity.
4) You would rather not be called pastor, reverend, brother/sister, or preacher. (Things like 'fellow follower of Jesus,' 'companion on the journey of life,' and 'seeker of unknowable truth' are preferred as alternatives.)
5) You are a guy with unkept hair and old used clothing, but you have the coolest pair of glasses around and a MP3 player that can do more things than your parent's entire entertainment system.
6) You are rejected more by Christians than sinners. (Although you do not really believe in sinners... you call them pre-Christians or even post-Christians.)
7) Your Internet homepage is either Nooma, Brian McLaren's homepage, or Emergent Village.
8) You preached a sermon series on recycling.
9) You often begin sermon illustrations with: "The other day while I was drinking a beer..."
10) What's a sermon?
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I think I like number 5 the best. Many hip-Emergents are still just as consumeristic and materialistic as their parents . . . they just value different things. Number 5, I think, brings that out.
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