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On Monday, while doing dishes/laundry, watching the girls, and keeping the house in order, I listened to Jim Belcher's Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional (InterVarsity Press, 2009). I've heard the book referred to and excerpted in a number of contexts, but it's good to finally have heard it for myself.  Now it's time to search out some of the sections which I found of particular interest and reflect upon them.  Anyone interested in joining me?  Here's where the conversation begins:

This book is written for those who are caught in between.  They are unhappy with the present state of the evangelical church but are not sure where to turn for an answer.  They like some of what the emerging and traditional camps offer, but they are not completely at ease with either.  The public conflict makes this anxiety worse, and these people don't know who to trust or believe.  What if both are off target?  Is there a third option, a via media?  I believe there is a third way.  It is what C.S. Lewis called the "Deep Church."  Deep church is a term taken from Lewis's 1952 letter to the Church Times in which he defended a supernatural revelation against the modernist movement.  He wrote, "Perhaps the trouble is that as supernaturalists, whether 'Low' or 'High' Church, thus taken together, they lack a name.  May I suggest 'Deep Church'; or, if that fails to in humility, Baxter's 'mere Christians'?" -- pp.13-14.

Do you find yourself caught in between?  And if so, how have you dealt with it?