Emerging Church

If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine

"... the testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason. For God alone is a fit witness to himself in His Word, so also the Word will not find acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken through the mouths of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they faithfully proclaim what has been divinely commanded… By this power we are drawn and inflamed, knowingly and willingly, to obey him, yet also more vitally and more effectively than by mere human willing or knowing."
John Calvin

...the emergent church is the latest version of liberalism. The only difference is that old liberalism accommodated modernity and the new liberalism accomodates postmodernity.
Mark Driscoll

Emerging Churches define themselves as those:
1. Who take the life of Jesus as a model way to live
2. Who transform the secular realm
3. As they live highly communal lives.
Because of these three activities, emerging churches
4. Welcome those who are outside
5. Share generously
6. Participate
7. Create
8. Lead without control and
9. Function together in spiritual activities.
Boiling it down to one sentence: Emerging Churches are...communities who practice the way of Jesus within postmodern cultures.
(Comment: please notice that all of the above are not about what Christ has done for us, but what we do for him)