Here is a summary of the messages from the SBFC-SW 2009, as well as a collection of photos from the conference and a video I took of the attendees singing “Be Thou My Vision”.
Three helpful Facebook pages have been created for all you Reformedish or Baptistish (heck, I’d like to invite even the Reformed Presbos) folks. You should check ‘em out (and get on Facebook if you aren’t already.)
I fear that if I put my notes up from this session I will erroneously portray what Tom spoke about. So, I’ll just include a couple of quotes and then pictures and I would strongly encourage you to view the video below. It was one of the most fair, gracious, and knowledgeable presentations of the Emergent Movement I’ve yet heard. Well worth your time to watch and listen to it.
Just because you can’t know everything doesn’t mean you can’t know anything.
Evangelicalism is more American than Evangelical.
Their chastened epistemology becomes un-hinged subjectivism. [speaking of the Emergent Movement]
Emergents today find themselves the unabashed Liberals of tomorrow.
Any Church that marries the culture today becomes a widow tomorrow. [paraphrase provided by Mike Woodall]