I must admit, that since I knew very little about a lot of the “best sellers” out there regarding the Church, I tended to lump them all together under the category of “Super Church” and “Mega Church” and the usual “semi-Pentocostal” feel of the Contemporary Worship services and choruses on video monitors flanking huge auditoriums. I have seen a lot of this work its way into some of the large mainline denominations, and very large , media rich productions are the fruits of this work. I had heard a lot about “Purpose Driven Life” and “PUrpose Driven Church” and “A New Kind of Christian” and “Postmodern Church”…most of the latter from Weblogs I found by searching on Weblogs and Christian and Church.

Having met Brian McLaren, engaged in disuccions with him, and read one of his books, I have recognized how many areas there are where our interests and concerns intersect. Much of that comes, I think, in the “Emergent” views I have been developing all along (before I knew of the “Emergence” theories and studies), by virtue of my being so immersed in the communicative power of the Web. I found out that much of what I felt about how the Church need to recognize the urgency of helping the People of God to “tell the story” was echoed in “The Cluetrain Manifesto”. The “conversation” is alrteady happening, the Cluetrain authors affirm. So it is with the “People of God” and The Church. The movements keep on happening; and the Church , in many contexts and flavors, misses out because they are not into “opening the channels that host such conversation”.