These posters used to be funny, when I didn’t really understand or take the time to understand all that the emerging conversation proclaims and represents. Emerging/Emergent is so much more than the incredibly thin caricatures represented in the below images. These posters are just iconic symbols of NeoReformed ignorance and its burning need to constantly talk before it thinks. Sad, really.
More emergent motivational posters can be found hosted at the Spurgeon.org web site. It’s all tongue in check, of course. Yeah, right.
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Great posters bro!
Meh
Actually kind of funny. They do sum up the Evangelical response to the “Emergent” church (still not sure what exactly that means…)
What I have observed is that many who call themselves “Emergent” are merely sloppy readers of Derrida/Lacan/Foucault – many resent the traditional church or the evangelical movements, but they really don’t comprehend what they are now espousing. Not everyone is a critical theorist, nor is everyone cut out to be one. Frankly, I doubt many of them have actually read any of these men – Wikipedia is not a suitable substitute.
This tends to rub off on the rest of the movement, at least in the minds of its critics. Much like the more extreme members of the evangelical community give it a bad name to the emergents.
The funniest thing about them is that they are reversable… meaning what they are saying in the posters apply to those who made them better than to the emerging church… now that IS funny!
wow this fits your church to a T!
Well, Len, it’s a good thing you have options then! I’m not even close to agreeing with your caricature, and I’m not even interested in an explanation, but I am glad that you have other options.
Have a great day!
I wonder when they will make a poster making fun of the limp-wristedness of most of the males who are a part of the emergent church movement. I’ve never seen such a sad, pseudo-intellectual, nutless group of men who’d probably die without their iPhones or iced lattes.
@RoxyThunderbox: Your IP address puts you in Kentucky. Are there no Emergent people there that you can actually get to know? It might change your above opinions.
@RoxyThunderbox Yeah because there’s tons of posters making fun of the anti-intellectual militant extremism of the conservative evangelical movement, we need some kind of contrast? At least the emergent church movement reads actual theology and philosophy instead of whatever outdated, dogmatic, 17th-century Common Sense Realism that confessional ‘theologians’ spew. I’ll even name names: Wayne Grudem and Norman Geisler. If you think that the emergent church movement is effeminate, techonosexual men, then you’re more confused than the above-named ‘theologians’.
actually … more to the point … the emergent movement is NOT afraid of women.
Some of us are just sick of all the bickering about who has it “right” (or left!), sick of all the divisions over correct vs incorrect worship, prayer, dogma, leaders, OR theology, and are just longing for fellowship with other folk who know we will never know it all but love each other anyway as we seek deeper relationship with God.
If you need posters to slam anybody, you probably are still clinging to the mentality of “my group (whether emergent, orthodox, happy, fundamentalist or new age) is THE group that has it right.”
May God show up. peace
@Greg. Preach on brother, preach on.