Check out this emp interview with Michael Azzerad, Henry Rollins, and John Doe. Toward the end of the interview John Doe says something like, “if you deny those things and pretend they never happened then you have the possibility of doing something new.”
Does this sound like us and our “emerging church”? To deny the modern church is to be radically shaped by it. Any flat out rejection of “something in its entirety” is to invite that which we reject to set the parameters on who and what we can become.
At the same time, rejection or denial does play a vital role in the process of deconstruction. Can there be an “at the same time” approach which sync’s up both denial and continuity?
Peace, dwight
Denial