Musings on the EMERGENT church

I have not, as of yet, visited with any group that identifies themselves as "emergent."  Perhaps the following impressions, formed by reading about the so-called "emerging church" movement, will provoke some emergent reader to invite me to a local meeting to experience emergence for myself.  The notion of "emergent Christianity" seems to me so much like the same-ol' same ol' buzzword-crazed faddishness that ignores the truth that God's Spirit has continually been moving in and among the Body of Christ since the promise of Pentecost was fulfilled.  It is disturbing when those who should know better jump on the bandwagon and begin declaring the news of the most recently perceived revolution rather than moving to help poor faddish fools discern what God already has always been doing now. What I have read of emergent literature makes me want to lump the whole movement in with those who speak of holiness but settle for hip-ness as their standard of discernment.  According to Phyllis Tickle (The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why): "These emergent folks are enthusiastically steering toward the middle and embracing the whole post-denominational world."  If God is not steering the good ship EMERGENCE, that boat is a Ship of Fools; saintly sailors would be better off letting the Spirit blow them toward, not the middle with its middling theology, but the Center of all things, Jesus Christ, in order to be embraced in His ever-open arms.