Dan Kimball With Pirate Christian

Dan Kimball

Researching Dan Kimball since his relationship with Pirate Christian (Chris Rosebrough) has become controversial to some Christians?  So far my research indicates that Mark Driscoll is correct that Dan Kimball is a Emerging Evangelical.

Emergent evangelicals are interested in updating worship styles, preaching styles, and church leadership structures so as to be relevant to postmodern-minded people. They do not place as much emphasis as do other “lanes” on actively engaging in their local culture and loving and serving people as the church.  They are divided over such things as the role of women in ministry, the proper mode of baptism, and charismatic gifts. Emerging Evangelicals commonly begin alternative worship services within evangelical churches to keep generally younger Christians from leaving their churches. They also plant new churches to reach people who are not being reached by existing churches.

Leaders in this lane look to pastors and authors such as Chris Seay, Dan Kimball, Rick McKinley, John Burke, and Donald Miller, whose book Blue Like Jazz, which deconstructed the evangelical subculture, has become a bestseller. The common critique of Emerging Evangelicals is that they are doing little more than cool church for hip young Christians.

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