I fear for these emerging churches, or The Emerging Church. I think of my father saying, I don't know what it is, but that ain't it. Do they or do they not believe in the Incarnation.

Jesus Christ, Friend and Saviour, help me to be where you are today. I say this prayer in the company of the ____ community and our friends, and with them I say..... may it be so.

Lex orandi, lex credendi. Here we find Christ Jesus praying to Christ to be where Christ is, claiming to not be in Christ but that Christ may be in Christ. It sounds religious and "personal" etc., etc., but is denying the very fact of what is already true.

It would be like Jesus praying,

Myself my friend, help me be me today. I am not me but I am someone else asking to be me and I agree with that someone else, amen.

We old, not with it church-people, especially clergy types proclaim as the Gospel that the Church IS the Resurrected Body of Christ [soma tou christou]and so all prayer as Church IS "by Him and with Him and In Him in the union [union-ity] of the Holy Spirit" addressed to Our Father, putting us at the living center of the heart of God; in the living center of the the Life of the Trinity, heaven itself! What more could one desire? Did Jesus ever once pray to Himself or to the Second Person of the Trinity "in heaven"?
I know I am criticizing, and criticizing something good, but I am powerless to change anything and it is my nature is to criticize. OK, your turn to criticize me.