Here is one [cynical] blogger who asks some important questions about emerging church… or is he complaining about bloggers???

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After reading a bunch of Emergent Church type blogs this morning I realized almost no one is saying anything new. Not only does this make blog reading boring and pointless, but it gets a little irritating.

The blogs I read through are supposed to be the big thinkers for the emergent movement. These are the guys and girls that are supposed to be thinking outside of the box. But it seems like everyone got out of the box a few years ago and now everyone is trying to huddle together in a mass of “sameness.”

And maybe I am just frustrated because I am a young American who always craves the next new thing. And that is definitely an issue many of us have. Its funny to read some of these blogs though and see people write as if their thought is a new one. In truth, its what people have been saying for at least 10 years if not more. I don’t know. Maybe I am just being a punk here.

I guess I search the faces of the blogs to find some new insight and new inspiration. Then I get disappointed as the same old rants are still being posted. Has anyone else noticed this?

Lets see, we have some of the same formulas for most Emergent Church blog posts: 1. The Geopolitical expert who rants against war 2. The response to a published critique of the Emergent Church 3. The social justice savior who like most Miss Americas “Wants to end poverty and bring peace on earth.” 4. The punk who is a part of the Emergent Church, gets annoyed with it, and critiques the crap out of it (like this blog post) 5. The “Hey I have a new thought” post that has been written about for years already. 6. The “I am really tied to historical spirituality” post which gently reveals how spiritual and ecumenical I am as a post-modern dude. 7. The insider-lingo post that weaves together words like incarnational, organic, cohort, missional, indigenous, post-(whatever the hell you want to be better than), community, etc. into a terrible cacophony of coolness. 8. The moderate political post that refuses to be pigeon-holed into either the liberal or conservative camps but instead, like a buddhist monk, “transcends” all political parties and labels in general.

I know these so well because these are what make up the majority of my sad excuse for a blog. I just wonder if anyone else is tired of reading the same old stuff on blogs that are supposed to be from folks on the leading edge of the church.

original link: http://chappy711.blogspot.com/2005/05/behold-i-am-making-all-things-stale.html