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| Dan
Kimball and the Emerging Church |
Author
of The Emerging Church
Foreword written Rick Warren and Brian
McLaren
 Reinventing
Christianity For Our Day
"The 'Emergent Church'
takes the 'seeker movement' past its limitations to go where
no Christian church has gone before—into inter-spirituality....
"They
want to generate new thinking, new discoveries with new ways to
do things. It is justified because we live in new world and we
have to be futurist thinkers to survive the changes that are taking
place. As Dan Kimball says 'we must rethink virtually everything
we are doing in our ministries.'
"On Rick Warren's internet site Dan Kimball writes 'So, the
emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching,
our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new
types of churches and an opportunity to be rethinking all we do
because we recognize that the next generation is at stake if we
don't."—Mike Oppenheimer,
Let Us Reason Ministries,
Now Ready for Prime Time Players
Dan
Kimball: Lectio Divina
and the Silence |
"We
have neglected so many of the disciplines of the historical
church [Desert Fathers], including weekly fasting, practicing
the silence, and lectio divina."—Dan Kimball, The
Emerging Church, page. 223
"As
we spilled out into the dark night with the rest of the crowd,
I felt that maybe something was happening here with the emerging
culture, and we should take note. We put so much effort into
designing contemporary church services that are peppy, upbeat,
and cued down to the minute, but I'’d just seen a large group
of young people drawn to something quite the opposite. Perhaps
we should consider that there's a rising longing to seek God
in the simplicity and stillness of a meditative church experience.
" From Dan Kimball's article, In
the Stillness
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Dan
Kimball and Labyrinths |
A-Maze-ing-Prayer by Dan Kimball
Prayer
Paths
Dan
Kimball and Prayer Stations |
Vintage
Faith Church Promotes Prayer Stations
Dan
Kimball and Youth Specialties |
Emergent
YS Convention 2005
"We
have the great opportunity to redefine the church to emerging generations."
—Dan Kimball, Youth Specialties Youth Worker Convention, 2002
"[M]any
in the emerging church are drawn to more of a loose, lesser emphasis
on strategic goals and a non-hierarchical approach to leadership.
Much like what is emphasized in the writings of Henri
Nouwen. I've read Nouwen's book, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections
on Christian Leadership a dozen times. Reading that book convicts
you to the inner core about motives and the heart of leadership."
Dan Kimball, The
Paradox of Emerging Leadership
"Without
a doubt, the books that have made the most influence in my thinking
on discipleship and spiritual formation for the emerging church
are the following from Dallas Willard.
Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ (NavPress
2002) and The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in
God (Harper Collins, 1998)"
—Dan Kimball from his newsletter, 2002
See Dan
Kimball's thoughts on the origin of the emerging church. Part
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Featured Resources
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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom,"
"spiritual disciplines," and many others.
Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement. |
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