charlie wear suggests it's time to become post-emerging

from the publisher of Next-Wave, which Andrew Jones says is "possibly the greatest emerging church online publication ever."

"Of course, it is now time to relabel this thing that God is inspiring, this thing that God is doing through those he has called to minister to their younger non-baby boomer peers. It is no longer "emerging" because it has "emerged." We can see it now, for sure. Why in some ways, it has become copyrighted, trademarked and branded! Critics are making a living from criticizing it. Publishers are making money by publishing about it. "

we've commented before on the post-emerging church here and, briefly, here.