Emerging Africa

We have seen quite a lot of debate on fundamentals and fundamentalism, sparked off by ill-informed attacks on the Amahoro Gathering last month in the blog Discerning the world.

EmergentAfrica.com is dead; long live EmergingAfrica.info.

When this site was started a few years back, we decided on the name "Emergent" not realising that this was linking us to Emergent Village, a node in the web of the global emerging church conversation, and a decidedly American node. The new site domain emergingafrica.info represents this site in a better way.

Just as a point of clarification Fundamentalism (with a capital F) is characterised by adherence to five points of doctrine:

1. The verbal inerrancy of Scripture
2. The divinity of Jesus Christ
3. The virgin birth
4. The substitutionary theory of the atonement
5. The physical resurrection and the bodily return of Christ

To be a Fundamentalist you have to believe all five, because to Fundamentalists those are the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

Following my previous post, I would like to bring these next powerfull words to our conversation.
Im not one to just forward any and every email and document I receive. I do however think that this might be a modern-day version of Martin Luther’s 95 theses.
Make the effort to read through it – and let the Word (who is a Person) speak to you….

(CHECK OUT: http://ajesusmanifesto.wordpress.com/
We also suggest listening to the YouTube song Give Me Jesus while reading this manifesto.

A Magna Carta
for Restoring the Supremacy of
Jesus Christ
a.k.a.
A Jesus Manifesto
for the 21st Century Church
by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola

Christians have made the gospel about so many things … things other than Christ.

Hello almal
I just want to tell the world, that according to Deborah at discerningtheworld2 I (Nic Paton) am a "lying Trickster", a "Wolf in Sheeps Clothing and a TRAVESTY of a genuine Christian".

I read this article by Dan Kimball today.
Food for thought!
You can read the original at http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2009/spring/doitdon%27tblogit.html?start=1

I was a guest speaker at a church, waiting for my time to go up to the platform. That's when I saw something curious. The staff person responsible for coordinating the worship service was busy typing away on her laptop. Perhaps a last minute change to the PowerPoint, I thought. But as I walked behind her, I saw that she was consumed with typing a message on someone's Facebook wall. It felt out of place to me, given that she was the person responsible for leading God's people in worship but she seemed mentally someplace else.

Hey guys,

I don't mean to post this to take any conversation away from the Amaharo chats. I still want to listen to the talks before I add anything, as that week I was unfortunately too swamped with work to make it away (serious bummer). Was bummed I didn't get to see many of you again.

Nevertheless, I'm posting this as I know that this is an emotionally charged topic for some and want to see what people say about it. I might get no responses at all, I might get a ton of responses - I don't know. I'm just throwing it out to see what happens.

I originally posted this on my blog, hence the tone.

Separating judgement from the Gospel

Blog posts on Amahoro are beginning to appear, and it seems to me an excellent way of getting a bigger picture than we ourselves were able to observe. But it would be good if we could have a kind of central link page somewhere.

I am willing to do such a thing, as I do with synchroblogs, so we could treat it as an Amahoro synchroblog, and could produce a list of links. If people think that is a good idea, then please let me know.

As soon as you have posted your contribution, copy the URL from your browser and send it to me in an e-mail message in the following format

Keep the stuff in capital letters at the beginning, replace the stuff after the first space with your actual information. DON'T add colons after the tags at the beginning

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(Post content removed by admin due to the stupidity of the blogger advertisting moving to a certain city in India. The post is preserved due the humourous comments, thanks Steve!)

I'm still trying to catch up with thoughts and recording impressions from the Amahoro Gathering at Hekpoort. So far I've blogged about it here (Kenzo and postcolonialism) and here (Truth & Reconciliation).