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The emerging church movement claims to be a Conversation instead of a Church. All seekers and believers alike are invited to participate in the unifying, relaxed and informal setting of "the conversation", instead of worshiping in a structured institutional church which emphasizes doctrinal and [[dogma]]tic truths. In place of educationally structured Sunday School classes, they sit in large rooms for the purpose of small group gatherings for "enlightening conversations", often lit by candlelight, with the smell of incense and the ringing of bells, surrounded by statues and icons.

The emerging church movement claims to be a Conversation instead of a Church. All seekers and believers alike are invited to participate in the unifying, relaxed and informal setting of "the conversation", instead of worshiping in a structured institutional church which emphasizes doctrinal and [[dogma]]tic truths. In place of educationally structured Sunday School classes, they sit in large rooms for the purpose of small group gatherings for "enlightening conversations", often lit by candlelight, with the smell of incense and the ringing of bells, surrounded by statues and icons.

The Bible itself is variously interpreted according to its perceived relevance or lack of relevance for each individual reader, who is encouraged to express his or her feelings about its value without fear of censure. The leaders of the movement emphasize that no one actually knows with certainty what the Bible really means, and that ''no one'' can legitimately claim to interpret its doctrines with [[dogma]]ically infallible certitude. They dismiss as doctrinally unreliable all claims of [[Apostolic succession]], and every [[Historical-critical method (Higher criticism)|historically documented evidence]] that the Bible has been accurately preserved without any error.

The Bible itself is variously interpreted according to its perceived relevance or lack of relevance for each individual reader, who is encouraged to express his or her feelings about its value without fear of censure. The leaders of the movement emphasize that no one actually knows with certainty what the Bible really means, and that ''no one'' can legitimately claim to interpret its doctrines with [[dogma]]tically infallible certitude. They dismiss as doctrinally unreliable all claims of [[Apostolic succession]], and every [[Historical-critical method (Higher criticism)|historically documented evidence]] that the Bible has been accurately preserved without any error.

Leaders of the movement claim to be implementing the [[Second Vatican Council|Vatican]] call for authentic [[Ecumenical Movement|ecumenism]] by promoting the unity of a common spirituality. Catholic [[Christian apologetics|apologists]] dispute this claim, citing the Emerging Church Movement's deliberately [[Heresy|heretical]] distortions of the Vatican II Document ''Unitatis Redintegratio'' (UR).  

Leaders of the movement claim to be implementing the [[Second Vatican Council|Vatican]] call for authentic [[Ecumenical Movement|ecumenism]] by promoting the unity of a common spirituality. Catholic [[Christian apologetics|apologists]] dispute this claim, citing the Emerging Church Movement's deliberately [[Heresy|heretical]] distortions of the Vatican II Document ''Unitatis Redintegratio'' (UR).