More Emerging

Last week I had the opportunity to listen and converse some with Dr. John Franke. He is just one of many prominent voices in the emerging conversation. In that particular forum, he raised a number of issues that brought some interesting questions, discussion and reactions and deserves much credit for going into that particular lion's den to begin with.
These discussion always seem to go back to post-modernity and it's inherent disdained for absolute truth. My take on some of this - mine not his necessarily, is that we are all of us wrong. At least in part. Due to our life experiences, our heritage, our personalities and probably our sin nature as well, we all have drifted from God's absolute truth so that none of us really have it. At least not all of it. But there is the point of disagreement. What is the truth that we do have? Some might say it is agreement on the Gospel but then they differ on what they mean by Gospel. Somewhat like Dr. Franke, I believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible Word of God, a divine revela­tion, the original writings of which were verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit and that they are the supreme and final authority of faith and conduct. But, the point he seemed to be stressing was that even though we may start there (and not everyone does) it does not mean that we are infallible in our interpretations of it. Trying to figure our just how much of the truth we have to agree on in order to fully work together for the kingdom is to say the least challenging. So, for now I am still listening to the conversation and trusting in Christ alone.