Beginners Guide
Since our launch in 2003 emergingchurch.info has grown to include over 100 unique stories and reflections with more added every month - so where do you start if you're here for the first time? This then is a constantly evolving collection of recommended stories and reflections for if you're wanting to get a quick picture of what the emerging church is all about. Of course, it's impossible to summarise something as diverse as the emerging church but if you click and explore, read and discover, perhaps you'll start to get a picture of what this site is all about..

40
'40' is a CD-Rom comic strip meditation on Christ in the wilderness - a unique worship and meditation resource produced by 'revive' church in Leeds. We caught up with illustrator Si Smith to chat about the CD-Rom, inspiration and to ponder on what Jesus really did do with all that time. so... '40'. it's fantastic. tell us how it came about, where the idea started... it's an idea that i borrowed/nicked from the artist stanley spencer. he once embarked on a project to paint 40 images of christ in the wilderness - one for each day of Lent - but he never…
Keep Reading...Hallelujah! I’m not alone
Hi, welcome to our virtual coffee shop. Pull up a chair, take the load of your feet. Let's chat. So who are you, where you from, what do you do in life?My name’s Amanda… I’m from Washington and currently I’m a student although I’m taking a year off to work in the city on the East coast to work with the urban poor. Can I get you a drink? Cappucino, earl grey, dandelion and burdock, pale ale?I’m a tea drinker… Green tea would be appreciated. Would you like a doughnut or pastry to go with that?No I’ll pass for now……
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Network Church
If there's one single thing that characterises emerging forms of church across the western world it's that they are networked. There is no one leader or format or theology, nor is there likely to be. Instead there is a thriving mess of cross-linkage without regard for conventional church structures or channels of communication. It's the context and lifeblood of the emerging church, the arteries of the Body so to speak, and yet it's largely invisible to the existing institutional forms of church. Partly this invisibility is down to technology-blindness, since a lot of the connection happens on the internet. More…
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