Streams of the emerging church

Yesterday I read through Scot McKnight's excellent article 'Five Streams of the Emerging Church' again. These are just some things that stuck out to me this time (all quoted directly):

• Emerging catches into one term the global reshaping of how to "do church" in postmodern culture.
• Postmodernity cannot be reduced to the denial of truth. Instead, it is the collapse of inherited metanarratives (overarching explanations of life) like those of science or Marxism. Why have they collapsed? Because of the impossibility of getting outside their assumptions.
• I know of no one in the emerging movement who believes that one's relationship with God is established by how one lives. Nor do I know anyone who thinks that it doesn't matter what one believes about Jesus Christ. But the focus is shifted. Gibbs and Bolger define emerging churches as those who practice "the way of Jesus" in the postmodern era.
• Unless you proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ, there is no good news at all - and if there is no Good News, then there is no Christianity, emerging or evangelical.
• Any movement that is not evangelistic is failing the Lord. We may be humble about what we believe, and we may be careful to make the gospel and its commitments clear, but we must always keep the proper goal in mind: summoning everyone to follow Jesus Christ and to discover the redemptive work of God in Christ through the Spirit of God.

BTW, the five streams are: Prophetic (or at least provocative), Postmodern, Praxis-oriented, Post-evangelical, and Political.

I don't know why these were the things that stuck out to me this time, but every time I read through this article it seems something different does. Anyway, it's a good, short read into Scot's perspective of things emerging.