Edited sentence: ) as they live highly communal lives.) create, (8.) function together in spiritual activities.) lead without control, and (9.) participate, (7.) share generously, (6.) welcome those who are outside, (5.) who take the life of Jesus as a model way to live, and (2.) who transform the secular realm, ( 3.A blow that is certainly fatal.Amazing that those who thrive in lacking certainty themselves are so certain about their uncertainty and judge harshly those who claim that God has actually revealed something we can apprehend.Because of these three activities, emerging churches (4.Boiling it down to one sentence: Emerging Churches are ... communities who practice the way of Jesus within postmodern cultures.But critics often find the following characteristics of emergents: no place for formal convention; indifferent to biblical truth, Spiritual but not confessional; a strong distaste for definitions, sound doctrine or confessional Christianity; constant state of rebellion; often argumentive and often finding things to disagree with other believers rather than looking for the good.Emerging Churches are those (1.How is it that they have such a birds' eye view that all the rest of us are all so wrong when they already deny having this kind of authoritative knowledge.In other words, the movement is hopelessly self-contradictory, doing the very things it despises in its opponents.Rarely genuinely repenting or saying sorry for their offending with those who differ but expect it and accuse their opponents of being unloving.There are authoritative announcements that there is no authority.These firm assertions themselves must derive their source and dogma from some authority