Desiring God Conference Review
Well I am back to Louisville from the Desiring God Conference in Minneapolis on the topic of the Supremacy of Christ in a postmodern world (including the Emergent Church). All of the talks were great though I must admit I will have to relisten to Carson’s talk on John 17 to understand it better. The audio should be available for free download from the Desiring God website in a few days.
Especially in Discoll’s and Piper’s talks there was a distinct emphasis on the need to fight for the essentials of the faith. So during lunch in downtown Minneapolis my friend’s and I were discussing the Emergent Church and its difference with Orthodox Christianity which boiled down to this:
Orthodox Christianity is humble before God and bold before men; whereas the Emergent Church is bold before God and humble before men.
Meaning that Orthodox Christianity accepts God’s demands and communicates those demands to men without compromise while the Emergent Church accepts man’s demands and tells those demands to God over not mattering that they go against Scripture.
