Emerging church is the kitchen

October 31st, 2006 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

I stumbled on googlism.com, a website that:

was created as a fun tool to see what Google “thinks” of certain topics and people.

You can search who, what, when, or where. I tried searching my full name first with no results, so then I just tried “Jake” and I had a good laugh. My next impulse was to search “emerging church” and the results were pretty good. Since it searches all websites with the phrase “emerging church” it brings up those opposed to the emerging church as well (e.g., “emerging church is a bunch of whiners and complainers”). I thought many of the responses, however, were dead on. Here are a few I thought were particularly authentic:

emerging church is still in the process of being born
emerging church is about the spirit producing missional kingdom
emerging church is along the lines of orthodoxy/heterodoxy
emerging church is a return to [no direct object here is effective, huh?]
emerging church is bottom up/grassroots and not hierarchical

Of course, there are several pretty funny ones (which makes me wonder from which pages they were drawn):

emerging church is just three things
emerging church is true—somewhere
emerging church is billed directly
emerging church is a bunch of whiners and complainers
emerging church is dog
emerging church is the kitchen

Heck, with this new tool doing all the work, writing my new senior paper will be a snap!