Artigo de Daniel Nájar , publicado na comunidade Liderazgo Emergente do Facebook

Las Iglesias de América Latina están frente a uno de los desafíos más grandes de su historia, me refiero al cambio generacional en la sociedad, combinado con el cambio de estafeta dentro de sus estructuras. Esto se refleja en líderes nuevos en congregaciones viejas, líderes en congregaciones nuevas que quieren o se ven obligados a dirigirla bajo viejos paradigmas, y congregaciones que no comprenden la cultura que les rodea.

Esse texto é um resumo do que está rolando nos EUA/Europa em relação ao termo "emergente".

Texto de capa da Next Wave de Setembro de 2008

By Brother Maynard

You have to read that title with a Mike Meyers beat poet voice like in So I Married an Axe Murderer (a true classic, directed by Thomas Schlamme of West Wing fame). I don’t know if we’re all “emerge-ed” now — I doubt it — but it looks like we’re dropping the name. Some of this appears to be distancing from Emergent™ and some looks to be simply distancing from labels that are confusing and misleading to some. Often people get a certain idea of what the term “emerging church” means, and the idea has a lot read into it that shouldn’t be there. No doubt some of the reading-in is caused by the poisoning of the waters by some critics who essentially critique a caricature rather than an accurate portrait of the emerging church itself. In some cases, I gather the caricature becomes so pervasive that some distancing from the term itself needs to take place. I hate when this happens with the really good terms.

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