Last December, I was asked by Ryan Bolger to write an article on how the Emergent church was being “handled” in my Assemblies of God church. I asked a friend, Pastor Luis Alvarez, who still is an AG pastor to collaborate with me on the article. It was hard to write that article because 1) it needed to be longer and 2) I really wanted to try and stay positive.  Neither one worked out. I had to keep it short and uh, the final article was as positive as I could be about my experience with emergent in the AG denomination. The article is finally out. I am also no longer AG.  Alot has happened in the course of 10 months!

The other contributors were:

Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger wrote The Morphing of the Church;
Walt Kallestad, Lutheran pastor, Community Church of Joy, wrote Redefining Success, Moving from Entertainment to Worship; Ryan Bell, pastor, Hollywood Seventh Day Adventist, wrote From the Margins: Engaging Missional LIfe in the Seventh-Day-Adventist Church;
Nadia Bolz-Weber, mission developer of a Lutheran church plant in Denver, “House for all Sinners and Saints”, wrote Confessions of a Sarcastic Lutheran; Troy Bronsink, PCUSA pastor and community organizer in inner-city Atlanta, wrote Of Dying Breeds and Swelling Hopes: A Mainline Emergent in the Reformed Tradition; Eugene Cho, pastor of Quest, Seattle, wrote Quest and Its Relationship with the Evangelical Covenant Church; Phil Jackson, pastor of The House in Chicago, wrote A Reciprocal Connection: The Surprising Convergence of Hip-Hop and the ECC;
David Fitch, pastor of “Life on the Vine”, in outlying Chicago, wrote On Being an Emerging Christian in the Christian and Missionary Alliance;

me, Liz Rios, with Luis Alvarez, pastor in the AG, wrote Will a New Church Emerge? Las Raices in the Assemblies of God.

You can read all the articles online here. My article is here.