If you are searching for God and don't feel like you measure up. Read this book and see if you don't see some parallels.

This book is difficult reading but if you want to understand the "emergent theology" that many of the leaders in the "emerging church" are espousing such as being missional, read this book.

I can't just give you books that praise the movement. In his critique of the movement, D.A. Carson is correct in saying we must be wary of tainting our belief, I just don't believe he understand the movement as a whole.

This book is the basis of much of the leaders of the emerging church's works. It talks about spiritual transformation and why it is so necessary and how it occurs in someone. It battles with the sedentary aspect of many believers and those who embrace a Christianity light.

Don't let the title fool you. It is a book that stretches how you view "being a Christian".

Here is another criticism of the "emerging church" movement. Chapters 3-5 are actually a good discussions of what "apostasy" or believing in false beliefs consists of and keeping our faith pure. Read McLaren's Generous Orthodoxy before reading chpts 1,2, & 6. My only criticism is that he quotes "emerging leaders" rather loosely and out of context.