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Issue #7: A strength with a weakness: permeable walls abounding<\/p>\n

I find the \u201cpermeable walls\u201d (they are not strong, solid, or thick) of the Emergent movement a breath of fresh air. It reminds of Jesus\u2019 table fellowship where people could be with him, could be near him, could sit down right next to him, and the gradation was possible because the structures were there that enabled that to occur. Emergent folks are working out permeable walls. I worry about too many permeable walls \u2013 not only between church and world but between truth and non-truth, between what is gospel and what is not quite gospel, between what is just in the Christian sense (I blogged on this one) and what is merely social justice (and I know this is an important issue and I don\u2019t want to demean any attempt at justice and that all justice is God\u2019s justice but when justice is not connected to Christ it is no longer holistic in a Christian sense). So, the question (it took me long enough) is this: are there too many permeable walls? Do we need some firmer walls and some permeable walls?<\/p>\n

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