INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE EMERGING CHURCH
All movements which want to have a lasting impact eventually take on institutional trappings -- even movements which have defined themselves in anti-institutional terms. In 2005 the Emergent, the most visible stream in the emerging church movement in the US, hired a director, started raising money, and now they even have a logo. It's all a sign of maturation. But the hard days are ahead as they hammer out just what kind of an institution they will become -- a loose confederation? an association? another anti-denomination denomination?