Thanks for this outline Andrew.

Progress toward pt. 5 and 6, I think, are particularly important for the emerging church if it is to effectively challenge (with credibility), the assumptions that have come to define much modern evangelicalism.

Regarding pt. 15, I too have reservations regarding pre/immature activity in the public and political arena (i.e. I would hate to see the emerging church being taken captive to a particular political agenda – as is the case in some forms of modern evangelicalism).  Yes, there needs to be a “serious re-examination of the biblical narrative”; however, I don’t think this cannot happen in isolation to praxis.   The “mission” described in pt. 14 has implicit political implications, especially if the task of mediating is to be carried out openly and honestly. Furthermore, contextualising the gospel (pt. 7), by its very nature, becomes public as it affects “…community interests as opposed to private affairs.”  An outmoded theology may inform current political activity, but I’m not sure that your suggested re-examination is, should, or can be, a prior task (my apologies if I’ve misread you here).

For example, the emerging church is attempting (to borrow your language a bit) to indwell the biblical narrative “as a formative community epic”, while it engages in exegesis that will help to disentangle us from modern assumptions; this happens in tandem.  The same, I think, applies to the political activity of the emerging church.  It would be naive to think we can remain apolitical while theologians fully rethink the relationship of the biblical narrative to current politics.  The emerging church should critically reflect, biblically, as it engages in politics.  The re-examination of the biblical narrative cannot remain aloof from what the emerging church is actually doing.

Emerging theologians must be involved in the “doings” of the emerging church, allowing the experience of praxis to inform their theology.  A disengaged ivory tower theology is one of the pitfalls modern evangelicalism stumbled into.