Questions to emerging leaders:
- Is it all you had dreamt it might be?
- Have you signed your book deal with emergent/ys?
- And what about your cd of original worship music?
- Are you quoting Derrida with confidence already?
- Are you voicing your questions re Scripture and tradition, blah, blah, blah?
- How do you make sense of the death of your vision?
- For all of your talk of community are you feeling alone?
- How about your partner?
- Does Doug Pagitt ever call you for advise?
- Does the word “reification” more-and-more describe your system of belief?
- Have you been wondering – what do I do after I’m bored with candles and incense, Iona and Taize, and U2 doesn’t cut it any more?
- Are you feeling the hooks of consumerism in your “what’s next’ search for meaning?
- Does the thought of “being present,” or “sitting with that” frustrate?
- Do you find yourself thinking that “Christianity” may no longer be necessary for following Christ?
- Has Guy Debord given you language to describe your worship service?
- Are your Christian parents praying for you salvation?
- Are yesterday’s enemies of the faith your new best friends?
- Has deconstruction become your “love language”?
- So your plans for a big church failed, so you morphed to house church and you’re thinking – I can’t do this forever – what now – maybe I can consult others or teach?
- Do you find yourself loving people and avoiding them at the same time?
- Do often find yourself asking God to release you from your sense of “call”?
- How are you going to pay the bills next year, let alone retire some day, oh, and don’t forget your kids’ college – how can you sell out and live with yourself?
- Who are you?
- Why do you do what you do?
- What’s it all about?
- Are you growing in love?
Peace, dwight
Questions to Emerging Leaders
