Jesse A. Schroeder

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Steve Knight from Emergent Village directed the blog readers over to this site to comment on the question, "Why do you like Emergent?" Here is what I wrote:

When I am in typical evangelical denominational settings, I feel pressure to always give the “right” answers and avoid the difficult questions. In Emergent conversations (online, in our local cohort, reading books) I am given the freedom to be honest with myself, with the questions that I really have, the truths I really experience in my own life, and what it seems the Bible is really talking about when I read it. I am given the freedom to “breathe” theologically - and I love theology! It’s what I enjoy the most, but I also hate more than anything being forced to give the “right” answers that just don’t seem to fit anymore. Emergent has opened up for me the possibility to believe in God the way I have always felt was how I wanted to believe, but didn’t think I was allowed to.

Basically, as a friend succinctly stated it, I have been “Mr. Schroeder” for a long time - but in Emergent, I can just be “Jesse.”