Minnekon – Emergent Cohort

We just finished up a conversation with Peter Rollins and the Ikon folks with the Emergent cohort here in Minneapolis – the Twin Cities Emergent Cohort. Lots of good conversation. Here are a few highlights:

• Rollins (when starting Ikon and after leaving his church): “I have no vision at all. I only know what I don’t want it to be.”
• I’m a big advocate of not knowing what to do and doing it.
• A big thing for me is not allowing ourselves to connect our ideas with God.
• Instead of fulfilling your dreams, finding new ones.
• Atheism for Lent – something Ikon puts together each year for Lent. They read the great atheist critiques of Christianity – not to critique them but to allow them to critique us.
• Priestly role is to refuse the priesthood – helps usher in priesthood of all believers.
• Pete’s role is to make sure no one colonizes these spaces.
• Ikon is like a donut with a hole in the middle. Regular church is jam filled donut. No center, everyone on periphery.
• At Ikon – only person who cares about you is the person next to you.
• Create a void and allow God to give God.
• Creating Ikon causes an orbit to occur. Interesting people are attracted to it. Pre-Ikon and Post-Ikon times are most important.
• Leader is very important – to refuse leadership. Create and let it die.
• Dreaming new dreams can’t have a plan – it’s uncharted, new wineskin. Can’t have a plan for starting a new community. The only thing you know is you must go somewhere that is not here. “Where are you going?” “I am going away from here.”
• Create an atmosphere where people are ruptured – this is transformance art.
• Repetition of difference – repeat things but differently.
• Liberal and conservative – two different ways of trying to say the right answer. Alternative is to say views aren’t God’s views

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Minnekon Posts:

Minnekon – Reflections
Minnekon – A.way Introduction
Minnekon – A.way
Minnekon – Session 3
Minnekon – Session 2
Minnekon – Emergent Cohort
Minnekon – Session 1
Minnekon – Peter Rollins & Friends

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I’ve blogged through both of Rollins’ books:

The Fidelity of Betrayal and How (Not) to Speak of God