christianity today

my eyes are getting sore after staring at a bunch of different sites about the emerging church movement. a lot of it seems to be verbiage defending itself from 'evangelicals' who are 'attacking' and then dishing out as good at it gets to the 'evangelicals' and 'modernism' in the church in general.

why all the labels? it seems that each time a group of Christians want to challenge their thinking and grow closer to God, the come up with a new label. a new rallying cry. a new set of tenets, even if the tenet is the lack thereof.

how about this for a radical idea?
- Christians are followers of Christ.
- Christians try to find out the truth of what God wants for us.
- Christians try to share that truth with the world.

... and the truth shall set you free

any questions?

are answers bad?

following on from thinking about velvet elvis, i've been reading up a little on the emerging church thing which it's author is a part of. the book struck me as asking a lot of questions, encouraging the asking of questions, but not giving what the author thought were answers, or may be answers, or hints of answers. it seems that questions, and dialog, and investigating, etc. are the end... rather than the means.... to the answers.

what good is questioning if not to find the answers?