Frank Turk Of Pyromaniacs on Kinda Christianity
Published April 28th, 2010 by Editor in General

In this post at Pyromaniacs Frank Turk recommends Kinda Christianity, a book for which he wrote the foreword. Along the way he says of the authors:


Ted and Zach wrote a little handbook here which, even if it doesn’t go The Shack for them and blow up the world of self-publication, is going to get the criticism, “they’re just a bunch of jerks, dude.” Ted will be called a hater or maybe some kind of misogynist homophobe jock, and Zach will be named as infamous…

And then Turk continues contrasting the authors and some notables within the emerging church:

here’s the thing: Are they the haters? It seems to me that they are not the haters – they are simply the ones who are not jealous.

They are not the ones calling each other John Bunyan and Martin Luther, naming their movement a “new reformation” in the midst of also lowering moral standards, eliminating the things which are distinctive about the Christian faith, and dressing in a shabby way rather than a way which says, “I am in the image of my creator, so I want to keep the place looking nice.”…



What to do if there are glaring moral issues in our day – speak in a prophetic voice echoing Isaiah and Elijah and Moses?

Oh heck no – do the opposite: embrace the moral failings of our day and say that this is who we are. Don’t hate me because I’m fabulous and famous like Perez Hilton or Spencer and Heidi…


And while we’re talking about us, how do we know who “we” are – how do we know what the church itself is, here and now?

Do we raise up leaders who are kind and discerning men who are leaning on Scripture and on the promise of Christ, who are using baptism as a gate to bring disciples to Christ and who are admonishing the people of God to believe in Christ and live as if his resurrection is true the way your DVR schedule is true and your paycheck is true? C’mon now: do the opposite!




We should be looking up to guys like Donald Miller who can’t be bothered to join with other believers for worship, and Rob Bell who won’t tell people about the life after life after death when he’s interviewed by the national press,

and Brian McLaren who must have a New Kind of Christianity rather than the one the rest of us have inherited, and Doug Pagitt who shames people with passive-aggressive zingers and stops talking to them

when they ask him what he specifically means by that – and as for baptism and a solid hope in the return of Christ, who cares? What’s that got to do with my favorite treat at Starbucks?…




Now it might appear so, but that’s really nothing at all like what those mean ”discernment” bloggers have written about the emerging church.


Frank Turk Of Pyromaniacs on Kinda Christianity at Christian Research Net