Seriously, I am writing this post for one reason. Maybe two….

First, Rodney and Brian has started tweeting in favor of the Submergent Church. What is this you may ask?

Submergent Church is a gathering of young people dedicated to thoughtful biblical study, faithful theology, and missional ministry. Though they come from various places and are moving in different directions, they share the same love for the church and desire for its proper function and ministry. In their different places in ministry, they hope to make their own distinct impact on the direction of their faith tradition and the greater church. (here)

Of course, Matt Mikalatos brings us a story about one of these places…

Pastor Peter Eidenburg decided his church needed a change, so he began to study the “emergent” movement for some ideas. What he found shocked him.

“Our church needed an infusion of cool,” he said. “We lacked in style. We had Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sure, but our Power Point slides sucked and we never had candles.

“But the emergent movement surprised me because it was full of old people. For instance, Brian McClaren is considered some sort of leading voice in the emergent movement. I remember back when he was the bastion of modernism. I mean, he’s still a bastion and everything, but he’s like fifty years old. So I decided, if he can do it, so can I.”….