Random Thoughts - 2

This is one of those great big metathings happening in christianity right now. Who's right? The new Emergent church? The traditional Evangelical church? And let's not even talk about the fundamentalists!
Since everyone is clamoring for my take, here it is. I think that there isn't a right or a wrong. Someday, 20 years from now, we'll have synthesized the good from both into a better christianity. I think the Emergent church has... emerged... to show the Evangelical community what it is lacking. And because it is focused on what the Evangelicals are lacking, it is itself lacking.
Just like Paul and James. You wouldn't have a complete understanding of the relationship of Grace and Works without them. If Paul had never wrote, we would be stuck in a legalistic works driven world. Without James, we'd all be grace nuts and sinning left and right. They exist in tension, to create the room between where we can grow and move on.
Emergent theology has risen to create a tension in Evangelicals, to bring us to a more centered point of view. It's the very definition of synthesis.
So what does this mean for us? We move on to a point where we find the good in Emergent theologies and the good in Evangelical theologies. We don't bow down to theology, to ideas, but we use them to give us a better understanding of God and a better way to be church.