{"id":60,"date":"2005-04-19T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/04\/passionate-and-why.html"},"modified":"2005-04-19T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T13:38:00","slug":"passionate-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/04\/passionate-and-why.html","title":{"rendered":"Passionate and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>Issue  #1A: Emergence is passionate in various directions: Why?<\/p>\n<p>And, along this line, we have to ask why it is that so many Evangelicals are upset with their past \u2013 whether or not one agrees with DA Carson that its leaders come from conservative Evangelical pasts is not the point. If they are, that is not the issue: the issue is why are they so upset to fashion an entirely new way of \u201cdoing church\u201d (which expression I don\u2019t really like). 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