Why Wait?

This picture can be found, along with many similarly tongue-in-cheek "de-motivational" pictures, t-shirts, and coffee mugs, at www.Despair.com. There's a lot of (black) humour on this website -- you may find yourself putting faces and names to some of the slogans! I thought it might be fun to take this picture and -- in a self-deprecating way -- apply it to ourselves.

There's an increasing number of websites and books being produced that are critical of the emerging church. Why should we wait for others to point out our weaknesses? Some of them will be helpful, when they truly get a grasp on what the emerging church is all about (if anyone really knows!), while others are dismissable and receive rants because they haven't done their homework.

But hey, what about a good, solid, self-critique among us -- the emerging church, pomergent pontificators, the emerging conversationalists? Let's use this picture as a visual starting point:

As we continue to experience this transitional era called "postmodernism", what are some of the "deadly projectiles" that could cause pomergent decapitation, or at minimum, painful flesh wounds?

Here's the parametres:

1. Let's be tongue-in-cheek, in keeping with the picture itself. If we can't laugh at ourselves, maybe that's the first projectile to avoid.
   
2. Sarcasm can be really funny, but let's not turn this into "Flame Wars: Revenge of the Miffed".
   
3. Pithy comments can be the best -- it's worth the effort to find an economy of words sometimes!
   
4. While humour is good, let's also be honest with potential projectiles.

Done right, this could be an extremely important part of the "conversation". Let's make it worth our while.