There is much about the emerging church that I like and much the causes me to be concerned. I like that they question things and I think their challenges are something as a church we need to hear. That is fine for style and forms for the church. I get nervous when they do the same experiments with theology. In some ways I see some similarities between the willingness to question everything in the emerging church and the same willingness in German New Testament scholarship in the 19th century. The difference is that the Germans experimented in scholarly and academic circles. The emerging church experiments and questions in a congregational context. There are questions that I would raise in a scholarly context that I would never share with my congregation. It is high price to be paid if you teach the wrong thing to a church.