Am I emergent enough? -- Part 2

A second (and, I think, better) test of whether a Christian is "emergent enough" comes from the book Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be by Kevin DeYoung, Ted Kluck, and David Wells.  These guys don't like something about emerging Christianity (okay, several things, like emerging Christians' tolerance for doctrinal liberalism, etc.).  But their test is pretty good (and kinda funny).  Here are some of my favorite questions:

You might be an emergent Christian if:

1.  you listen to U2, Moby, and Johnny Cash’s Hurt (sometimes in church)...
Johnny Cash, yes.  Not usually in church.  Have been pushing for more bluegrass in church.

2.  use sermon illustrations from The Sopranos... 
No....  But Family Guy, yes.

I'm blogging right now...

3.  drink lattes in the afternoon and Guinness in the evenings....
OMG, they're watching me. 


4.  and always use a Mac...
No, but I do have an iPhone and an iPad.  I also came form Chicago where every Episcopal priest had a Mac except me.


5.  your reading list consists primarily of Stanley Hauerwas, Henri Nouwen, N. T. Wright, Stan Grenz, Dallas Willard, Brennan Manning, Jim Wallis, Frederick Buechner, David Bosch, John Howard Yoder, Wendell Berry, Nancy Murphy, John Franke, Walter Winks and Lesslie Newbigin (not to mention McLaren, Pagitt, Bell, etc.) and your sparring partners include D. A. Carson, John Calvin, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and Wayne Grudem...
There's a lot of names in that list, some of whom I have no knowledge.  But Lesslie Newbigin is my absolute favorite and I also like McLaren, Pagitt, Bell, N.T. Wright, Walter Wink....  So....


6.  your idea of quintessential Christian discipleship is Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, or Desmond Tutu; if you don’t like George W. Bush or institutions or big business or capitalism or Left Behind Christianity; if your political concerns are poverty, AIDS, imperialism, war-mongering, CEO salaries, consumerism, global warming, racism, and oppression and not so much abortion and gay marriage....
Yep!  Except that gay marriage is a big concern because I'm for it. 


7.  you talk about the myth of redemptive violence and the myth of certainty...
Indeed.  I mentioned this to Bishop Jeffrey Lee (the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago), who was a little shocked that this might be a sticking point for someone...


8.  you love the Bible as a beautiful, inspiring collection of works that lead us into the mystery of God but is not inerrant...
Perhaps you can now see where their critique is going.


9.  you search for truth but aren't sure it can be found...
Guilty.


10.  if you’ve ever been to a church with prayer labyrinths...
Now they're getting snarky.


11. you grew up in a very conservative Christian home that in retrospect seems legalistic, naive, and rigid...
Definitely.


12. you support women in all levels of ministry, prioritize urban over suburban, and like your theology narrative instead of systematic...
Oh, no you di'n't.  


13.  you want to be the church and not just go to church...
Want it?  I long for it.  I crave it.


14.  you believe who goes to hell is no one’s business and no one may be there anyway...
Yeah, I believe love wins.


15.  you believe salvation has a little to do with atoning for guilt and a lot to do with bringing the whole creation back into shalom with its Maker...
Gosh, sounds like Paul, John of Patmos, John 1, Revelation....

16. you believe following Jesus is not believing the right things but living the right way...
Sounds like Matthew 25 and a million other things in Scripture.


17.  it really bugs you when people talk about going to heaven instead of heaven coming to us...
Oh that pesky Revelation 21....

Am I crazy?  Is this all so wrong?

(Taken form http://www.challies.com/quotes/quote-you-might-be-emergent-if)