#196 When to Leave: An Early Emergent Church Leader Speaks Out, with Dan Kimball
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Dan Kimball was an integral and successful leader of the early stages of the Emergent Church which would blossom into what we know today as progressive Christianity. Dan shares his story of what made him leave the movement, and offers time-tested wisdom on how to recognize heresy, how to confront it, and when it’s time to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify |
| 0:13.3 | the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the |
| 0:18.1 | gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. |
| 0:20.8 | And my guest today has been doing just that for many, many years. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm excited to bring you this conversation I had with my friend Dan Kimball, who was |
| 0:28.5 | on the ground floor of the early emergent church movement. |
| 0:32.3 | The emergent church, of course, was the precursor to progressive Christianity. |
| 0:36.5 | And Dan had to leave when he realized that a lot of his coworkers, a lot of the people |
| 0:40.6 | he was in the trenches in ministry with, believed some very heretical things, and he could not |
| 0:45.5 | be a part of it and promote that. |
| 0:46.9 | So he's going to bring us some really great time-tested wisdom. |
| 0:50.1 | Today's episode is brought to us by Impact 360 Institute, who create life-changing experiences |
| 0:56.7 | for students that I get to be a part of as a faculty teacher. |
| 1:00.5 | Go to Impact360.org to learn more. |
| 1:03.5 | So I just want to tell you about a couple of things before I get to this conversation |
| 1:07.3 | with Dan. |
| 1:08.3 | You've heard me talk on the podcast before about my new podcast that I have with Natasha |
| 1:13.2 | Crane that is weekly 15-minute bite-size commentaries on cultural topics, right? |
| 1:20.5 | We've tackled transgenderism. |
| 1:22.6 | We've tackled not bowing to pride activism. |
| 1:25.8 | We've tackled politics. |
| 1:28.5 | There's been no subject untouched. |
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