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I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I was in the eighth grade, and I got the whole scare speech from our pastors. 'Do you want to be left here, left behind, for the Tribulation? If not, then come forward.'

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.