"YODA and ANAKIN sit in Yoda 's room, deep in thought.
YODA: Premonitions . . . premonitions . . . Hmmmm . . . these visions you have . . .
ANAKIN: They are of pain, suffering, death . . .
YODA: Yourself you speak of, or someone you know?
ANAKIN: Someone . . .
YODA: . . . close to you?
ANAKIN: Yes.
YODA: Infallible only the Lord is when sensing the future, Anakin. Fear and unbelief are paths to the dark side
ANAKIN: I won't let these visions come true, Master Yoda.
YODA: Death is a result of living in a fallen world. Rejoice for those around you who transform from glory to glory. Mourn them, we will. Miss them, we will. But get over it! For there is resurrection still...
ANAKIN: What must I do, Master Yoda?
YODA: Trust in Jesus you must.
Original Script:
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YODA: Premonitions . . . premonitions . . . Hmmmm . . . these visions you have . . .
ANAKIN: They are of pain, suffering, death . . .
YODA: Yourself you speak of, or someone you know?
ANAKIN: Someone . . .
YODA: . . . close to you?
ANAKIN: Yes.
YODA: Infallible only the Lord is when sensing the future, Anakin. Fear and unbelief are paths to the dark side
ANAKIN: I won't let these visions come true, Master Yoda.
YODA: Death is a result of living in a fallen world. Rejoice for those around you who transform from glory to glory. Mourn them, we will. Miss them, we will. But get over it! For there is resurrection still...
ANAKIN: What must I do, Master Yoda?
YODA: Trust in Jesus you must.
Original Script:
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-Revenge-of-the-Sith.html
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A huge amount of emerging church material exists in blogging cyberspace although there are also numerous books as well. Here is just a smattering of things:
1. This link from a critical perspective provides an orientation to the emerging church (although it seems to operate with an unfortunate blurring of the distinctions between emergent and emerging. The former arguably referring specifically to Brian McClaren's movement and the latter more generally to emerging churches. I am not sure it's straightforwardly correct to refer generically to 'emergent churches', although I myself could be wrong here and am open to correction! At the very least, caveat emptor).
http://members.tripod.com/carla_b/emergentmovement/emc_news.html
This site also lists a good blog called "Emerging No" - I have seen one key emerging leader refer to it as one of the best anti-emerging blogs.
2. D. A. Carson's new book on it is a must read: "Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and its Implications" (Zondervan, 2005). This book is an expanded version of lectures Carson gave in the USA.
3. David Mills wrote an online response to Carson's lectures:
http://www.kevers.net/mills_staley_response.pdf
Carson responds in his book to some of Mills' critique.
4. Andrew Jones (tallskinnykiwi) is a well respected figure in emerging circles and listened to Carson's lectures. He then wrote an open letter to Carson which you can read here:
http://emergent-us.typepad.com/emergentus/2005/04/andrews_open_le.html
5. Justin Taylor, who has recently co-edited some books with John Piper, has responded to Andrew Jones' open letter to Carson. He charges Jones with both misrepresenting Carson and not really understanding him; he even calls on Jones to issue a public aplogy to Carson! Although Jones does reply in Taylor's blog he is not able to respond to his charges and as far as I am aware has yet to do so. Read Taylor's blog here and be sure to follow the link in this blog to "my blog post":
http://theologica.blogspot.com/2005/04/more-thoughts-on-andrew-jones-and.html
6. If you'd like more Justin Tyalor, you can listen to him being interviewed about the emerging church at the website I listed under point 1). He has important things to say.
7. Taylor is also one of the editors of a great book called: "Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times". I mention this book because it contains D. A. Carson's review article of the late Stanley Grenz's book "Renewing the Center." Grenz's work scores highly for many in the emerging movement and they look to him for more academic support of their views. In Carson's new book he has a few references to his critique of Grenz so these books (Grenz/Taylor) are probably a must read if you really want to dig deep into this.
8. Andrew Jones has had some dialogue with Michael Horton, a prominent and well-respected Reformed theologian. Horton models courteous and clear disagreement and there are some parallels with Carson's critique. You can read some of that here:
http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2005/05/michael_horton_.html#more
9. Scot McKnight who used to teach at TEDS with Carson and who has some broad sympathy with the emerging church has provided one of the first online analyses of Carson's book going through it chapter by chapter. You can get to this here:
http://jesuscreed.blogspot.com/2005/04/da-carson-and-emergent-movement-part-8.html
Academic forms and protocols can end up making things so impersonal and adversarial. Christianity is a face to face religion
Speak to me Hedonese, speak to me....