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The Elephant Room

Well I figured I'd put in my two cents on the Elephant Room conferences. If you don't know about them, take this link:  Elephant Room This thing is hyped as two different waves of evangelicalism coming together to discuss and hash out their differences. The goal is that each side can better understand, respect, and learn from each other. On the one side you have the neo-Calvinists, or the Young, Restless, Reformed crowd, represented by Chandler, Driscoll, and I suppose David Platt and James MacDonald. On the other side, the seeker-sensitive, bring numbers in at all cost crowd, you have Perry Noble, Steve Furtick, and perhaps Greg Laurie. Basically, in the first elephant room, they talked about differences in how they engage culture, how they handle money, how much of the world they bring into the church to attract "seekers" (um, what seekers are there again???), how important going deep into doctrinal issues are, how important it is to love the gospel versus sha