Assessing the Emerging Church

This looks like a great new book on the emergent church. In Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be, authors Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck explain that “You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, reared in evangelicalism and not be an emergent Christian. In fact, we want to argue that it would be better if you weren’t.” The foreword is written by David Wells. The blurbs:
“This book is a pleasure to read, not least because it pricks so many pretensions. While it deals with an important subject, it manages to sustain a breezy style that draws you in. The subtitle tells you the stance of the authors: the emerging church movement, which taught an entire generation to rebel, is now old enough to find growing numbers of people learning to rebel against the rebellion.”
~ D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“Why We’re Not Emergent crashes into the emerging conversation in a voice which hears “them” and talks back! This is a book we’ve been waiting for. With careful observation, faithful handling of Scripture, and an eye for the ironic and absurd, DeYoung and Kluck have given us a feel for what attracts some to emerging churches and thoughts about why that’s sometimes a very bad thing. Buy and read this book. You’ll enjoy it. And it could help you and the people you’ll tell about it.”
~Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC
“Two thoughtful young guys with different styles, Kevin DeYoung (the pastor-theologian) and Ted Kluck (the journalist), have teamed up to write Why We’re Not Emergent. The result is a fair-minded, biblically grounded, insightful book. It’s clear that DeYoung and Kluck are not motivated by the desire to criticize, but rather by their love of the church as the body of Christ. This is now the first book I’d give someone who asks the question, “What is the emerging church?” Highly recommended!”
~Justin Taylor, Project Director, ESV Study Bible; blogger (Between Two Worlds)
Speaking of the emerging church, Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason interviews Dave Horner on the topic “Assessing the Emerging Church.” Horner is the senior pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC.