Message from Doug Pagitt
Welcome to emersionbooks.com: the web connection to the Emersion line. Emersion is designed to provide resources for communities of faith.We trust that these resources will inspire hope, provide encouragement, give instruction, and serve you and your community in living well with God in the way of Jesus.
Emersion will provide resources from a variety of perspectives and on a wide range of topics.
Some resources will give clues and patterns for a way forward. Others are intended to feed deep consideration and rethinking. But be assured, the material coming from Emersion will be fresh, forward leaning, and useful for churches of all varieties.
We have found some of the best thinkers and top practitioners in the Emerging Church to contribute to the line. But the strength of the line will be you, the reader. We need you. We need your feedback on the resources we provide and your direction on future projects. We want to include your voice in the line.Toward that end we invite you to participate with us through this interactive website, through blogs (An Emergent Manifesto of Hope Blog, Signs of Emergence Blog), podcasts, videocasts, and at face-to-face gatherings around the country.
So please, enjoy the resources, but even more join us in the development and creation of Emersion.
Emersion is a partnership between Baker Publishing Group and Emergent Village.
I guess I consider myself an emergent observer or an emergent courter as in what happens when a guy dates a girl but hasn't made the decision to marry her. That decision probably has more to do with the fact that I have only read some of the books but haven't been to an event and therefore haven't met anyone face to face. My personal experience with the process of a continuing emerging saga has been pretty deep. I found myself emerging long before I found a group people such as those I have read about in Emergent Village. Pray for my wife and I as we are being used to facilitate a Church plant already two-years in the developmental stages. God bless
Posted by: Perry Radford | January 30, 2008 at 09:29 AM