The Future of Emergent

Sorry for how quiet it’s been around here. After a month of becoming more and more annoyingly slow, my laptop decided to really freeze up and die. It is currently in the (not so) capable hands of Geek Squad in an attempt to be resurrected. I’m pissed that I’m not competent enough to fix it on my own, and even more pissed that the supposedly competent people aren’t but still charge you can arm and a leg to do whatever they are doing. So hopefully (fingers crossed) by next week I will have a working computer again. Until then I am going into internet withdraw – and demanded that I get to use Mike’s tonight, screw his homework…

Anyway the real point of this post is about what I’m doing this weekend. I and about 20 other emerging church folk are heading to Washington D.C to discuss the future direction of Emergent Village. This is a time to brainstorm, to share visions, and to plan. For more info about this gathering see this post at Emergent Village, but here is the core -
“Our goal in these couple of days together is not to pontificate on the elusive question of “What is Emergent?” Instead, we will seek to create an environment where we can begin to see what form this organism wants to have. What do we need to let go of in our assumptions, and what is waiting to be born? What is already happening naturally that we should organize ourselves to support? Where is the life and how does that life get nurtured? What is important about the past ten years that needs to be conserved? What should be left behind?”

Since obviously the small group of us gathering do not represent the whole of the emerging conversation, we need your help. What are your thoughts? How would you answer those question? What ideas for the future do you have?

Please add your thoughts here and join your voice to ours as we enter into this conversation.