Bill Hybels - Ephesians 2: "You were dead... But God who is rich in mercy..."
Early on at Willow Creek, when his 3 closest friends rejected the vision for a new, Acts 2 church (eventually Willow), Hybels shared that God spoke to him these words: "I gave you this dream though none go with you."
The God who is rich in mercy will honor the vision and will come alongside you - do it!
In your relationship with God, are you skimming or communing?
"The rate at which I was doing the work of God was destroying the work God was doing in me."
And this is the best part - although he didn't mention Emergent by name, Hybels summed up my exact thoughts on the movement (sorry, "conversation"): "Why is there so much anger in 20-somethings doing ministry? Many 20-somethings (i.e. emergent) are impressed with the concept of community but are not actually living it in reality."