Emerging Church - from Kester's blog

We've seen so much, seen so many projects with such great hopes flounder, so many prophecies of impending revival fall flat, that we're just prepared to give up on any grand vision at all. And the corollary of that is: we stop pushing the dirt away at all. We abandon any difference/distinction from the society we are in.

Having spoken to many people over the years about the Emerging Church, I've heard people get really excited that 'finally this is what we've always been looking for'... and then, more recently, say 'I just don't care and I want to jack the whole thing in.'

So is the Emerging Church conversation just another hopeless utopia? Should we just abandon any grand vision and admit that it'll probably just end up hurting people?