Archive for January 22nd, 2007
Three converging streams
Remember the scene in Ghostbusters where Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, and Harold Ramis point their proton gun nozzles toward the flying green ectoplasm running amok in the library? Before pulling the triggers on their phantasm-frying devices, they warn each other, "Don’t cross the streams!" Of course, they cross the streams and some exciting special effects result. Which reminds me of what is happening in the reimagining church world right now. Three streams of thought and praxis are seeking the new vision for the church in the 21st century — emerging, missional, and ancient-future. And if that is not enough, CT just ran an article on Five Streams of the Emerging Church, so the big streams have little streams.
