Reprise: Why We’re Not Emergent

Remember 2008?

George W. Bush was finishing his term as president, and Barack Obama was battling John McCain to take over. We were in the middle of the Great Recession. Apple launched its App Store. And we were dealing with something called the emerging church.

The emerging church is a distant memory now, but back then, leaders like Brian McLaren were trying to rethink not only the church but key doctrines of the faith.

In early 2008, Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck released a book called Why We're Not...