“The New Thing”

 

Part 4: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970

To the Lord of the Church
and all of His faithful people
who are helping Him to create
“the new thing” in our time.

- Author’s Dedication, the emerging church [1]

In the Foreword to Bruce Larson and Ralph Osborne’s 1970 book the emerging church (Word) the authors expand upon what this strange phrase, “the new thing,” would mean in defining the emerging church movement. The authors anticipated that the 1970s would be “an era of chaotic change in the Church” and also “a day of new beginnings.” They wrote:

Read here:

http://herescope.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-thing.html