Comments on: What is Deep Church?

By: Deep Church by Jim Belcher « The Theological Ramblings of an Anglican Ordinand

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:22:56 +0000

[...] The book explores a path, which he calls Deep Church, which can be taken which avoids both traditional evangelicalism and the emergent scene. A friend pinted out to me that people in the UK may get a little confused as there is a ‘Deep Church’ movement/set of books/blogs in the UK. [...]

By: A Deeply Christian Concern for Animals at Deep Church

A Deeply Christian Concern for Animals at Deep Church — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:21:43 +0000

[...] I identify in many respects with the deep church ethos which Jason and others have been part of introducing, and I think it relates significantly to formulating a most meaningful and gospel-oriented [...]

By: "Deep Church" « the tension is here

"Deep Church" « the tension is here — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:14:22 +0000

[...] Interesting post here, about something people are calling “Deep Church” or “Deep [...]

By: Deze week opgerakeld... « from dialogue to discipleship

Deze week opgerakeld... « from dialogue to discipleship — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:06:11 +0000

[...] Jason Clark startte met enkele vaste schrijvers een nieuwe blog Deep Church. Wat is het? [...]

By: Jason Clark

Jason Clark — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:50:43 +0000

Hi Andy, great to connect and thanks for the link to your blog. Looking forward to talking together.

Jason

By: Andy Goodliff

Andy Goodliff — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:46:18 +0000

That’s interesing I’ve just set up a deep church blog: http://deepchurch.blogspot.com and have been blogging on chapters from remembering our future over the last month at my own blog andygoodliff.typepad.com

By: robinparry

robinparry — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:53:53 +0000

Not long after becoming a Christian I got involved with a very zealous group of Churches who felt that God had abandoned the denominations and that they were part of the climax of God’s work in history leading up to the return of Christ. When I went to College I joined a different Apostolic Network (Salt & Light) and I was horrified to discover that they talked to Anglicans! Why, thought I, would anyone want to fellowship with an Anglican? God abandoned that lot ages ago, or so I thought.

What a plonker I was! It did not take me long to work out that I had a lot to learn from from people who were not charismatic! And even from people who were not evangelical! And even from people who were not Protestant! And even … from Anglicans! It began to dawn on me that as much as the charismatic movement represented gain (and I am unapologetic about that) it also represented a loss. We had been too quick to throw the babies out with bathwater. We needed to get those babies back.

Deep Church represents to me a sign of hope that this is precisely what we are now doing. Perhaps we had to be over-zealous and over-radical to do what we did. I hold those charismatic pioneers in high regard (and some of them never threw the babies out in the first place). But the time has come for the movement to listen to the past again. To drink from the wells of our rich Christian heritage. To embrace the wisdom of other streams without abandoning our own committment to the new things that God brought through Pentecostalism, renewal and the Restoration networks.

As a young Christian I was deeply suspicious of ecumenism – to me it smelled of compromise. But the kind of ecumenism represented by deep church is not the insipid kind that I so feared but a robust, maximalist kind. To that all I can say is, ‘Count, me in Lord!’