Marcus Splitt

Increasingly I feel totaly out of anything. It is hard to find a conversation partner these days. The most poeple THINK very intellectual and redical things, but the LIVING is somewhere lost… Some of the thoughts and conversations are getting really boring to me. And at the end nobody has a profile, or a standpoint. verything is melted in the pot of postmodern thoughts and pluralism. Not that I want “back” in “good old modern” times, but the conversation here in Germany is really, exchangeable and predictable. At the end everyone will accept the other opionen without coming to a true point of self-relativism or at least self-reflection. Everything is heavy headed and a matter of theological,(pseudo)intellectual discussion. It has no impact on practical decisions or on how to live ones life or practice. My fellows and I walked a long way down the road to end up where we are now (and to make it clear: We are no heros, we are not special, we are not too radical, maybe we are just german stubborn-consequent-too serious-narrow defining-folks). We did not walk that road to find out, that the majority celebrate its self and enjoy their spiritual/intellectual masturbation. Maybe all of this is just an intellectual game in which some people make money (those who write Books, organise “networks” and facilitate conversations (a new description for conferences)). Maybe it is just not important altogether. Who in Germany is really living out what the so called emerging church stands for? Well, there are always some good examples and I am grateful for them. But when I compare those who think very radical things with the numbers of those who really live out what they think, then the obvious gets even clearer. If I’d count this projects I am wondering whether there are more than 10 or not in Germany. And then there are those who have no idea that they are doing a great job and who would not consider themselfs as an EC. It is easy for one to hide behind some “new” thoughts and mistake that for the challenge of living it. If the EC ends up being a renewal movement for the church (as we know it) they will become just the next willow creek. Some old Systems will get their rejuvenating cure, leaving the EC empty and exhausted behing and go on to the next new thing as it always happend, in their emperialistic manner.Am I pessimistic? Maybe I am realistic?So for me it is clear, that the only thing I can give myself, is for a flat movement of followers of Christ on the basis of friendship mutual trust and responsibility. Leadership is defined by trust and what I call a “natural-spiritual” mandate. Thats it!

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