So we were featured in this week’s City Paper (.com). You can click here to read the full article. Here’s a small snippet…

“It goes back to story,” Hartman says. “A lot of the emerging church has grown out of a new emphasis on narrative theology, the story of God and God’s people. How does this story connect to God’s plan for the people of Baltimore? There is no formula.”

The emerging church wants to peel away doctrine to find the authentic Jesus, Hartman says, to strip Christianity down to the core of what Jesus was about. Though members of the emerging church may agree that acceptance of Jesus Christ is the key to getting to heaven, they also believe that the Bible and Jesus left instructions for how believers were supposed to live in this world.