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Imagining A New Church
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Author : Jeffrey Kjellberg
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2019-09-13
Imagining A New Church written by Jeffrey Kjellberg and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-13 with Religion categories.
If our church isn’t a place of genuine inclusivity for the 21st century, are we a 21st century church? How do we define inclusive? If the world is changing, are we able to change with it? What if this new church looks different than we think it should? Jeffrey Kjellberg’s IMAGINING A NEW CHURCH: What if We’re Asking the Wrong Questions? opens the door to a conversation about who we have been, who we are now, and who we can be in the future. In recent years, we have experienced a decline in both membership and engagement, and have struggled to sustain ourselves in a shifting and uncertain landscape. We have always relied on our history as a church to both energize our present and direct our path forward. But what if we don’t just have a storied past but a new and exciting future? Rather than relying on failing strategies – strategies that have not turned our diminishing communities of faith around – what if we work towards a new practice? Through a series of self-examing questions, Kjellberg leads the reader through a process of deep reflection and creative inspiration. He asks us to examine our preset beliefs about who we are and what we believe, and explore a new way of being church. This is not easy work and Kjellberg encourages us to express the full range of our doubts, fears and sorrows. But rather than mourning where we are now, what if the mystery of the future is what inspires our present? Can we find that new path forward without letting fear of loss block our way? Imagining A New Church challenges us to ask ourselves a new set of questions, freeing us from the need to recover to a place of imagining something new. We want our church and our faith to be both relevant and responsive to a changing and needful world. Our confounding present is just one stop on our pilgrimage into a hopeful future. This process of doing and undoing, making and unmaking, is challenging. But in our love for our church, we can find the strength to forge a new way, a new path. The future can be one of hope and creation, rather than a time of sadness, darkness and loss. Jeffrey Kjellberg’s Imagining a New Church is a bright lantern on this journey.
Imagining A New Church
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Author : Jeffrey Kjellberg
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2019-09-13
Imagining A New Church written by Jeffrey Kjellberg and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-13 with Religion categories.
If our church isn't a place of genuine inclusivity for the 21st century, are we a 21st century church? How do we define inclusive? If the world is changing, are we able to change with it? What if this new church looks different than we think it should? Jeffrey Kjellberg's IMAGINING A NEW CHURCH: What if We're Asking the Wrong Questions? opens the door to a conversation about who we have been, who we are now, and who we can be in the future. In recent years, we have experienced a decline in both membership and engagement, and have struggled to sustain ourselves in a shifting and uncertain landscape. We have always relied on our history as a church to both energize our present and direct our path forward. But what if we don't just have a storied past but a new and exciting future? Rather than relying on failing strategies - strategies that have not turned our diminishing communities of faith around - what if we work towards a new practice? Through a series of self-examing questions, Kjellberg leads the reader through a process of deep reflection and creative inspiration. He asks us to examine our preset beliefs about who we are and what we believe, and explore a new way of being church. This is not easy work and Kjellberg encourages us to express the full range of our doubts, fears and sorrows. But rather than mourning where we are now, what if the mystery of the future is what inspires our present? Can we find that new path forward without letting fear of loss block our way? Imagining A New Church challenges us to ask ourselves a new set of questions, freeing us from the need to recover to a place of imagining something new. We want our church and our faith to be both relevant and responsive to a changing and needful world. Our confounding present is just one stop on our pilgrimage into a hopeful future. This process of doing and undoing, making and unmaking, is challenging. But in our love for our church, we can find the strength to forge a new way, a new path. The future can be one of hope and creation, rather than a time of sadness, darkness and loss. Jeffrey Kjellberg's Imagining a New Church is a bright lantern on this journey.
Imagining A New Church
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Author : Bill Huebsch
language : en
Publisher: Thomas More Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Imagining A New Church written by Bill Huebsch and has been published by Thomas More Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
"Fresh insight into rebuilding the ministry and mission of the church. Imagine a church that has experienced a turn-around from its current state of crisis and mistrust and become a church with a life-giving framework, ........ " [from back cover]
Imagining A New World
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Author : Terri Hord Owens
language : en
Publisher: Chalice Press
Release Date : 2020-09-22
Imagining A New World written by Terri Hord Owens and has been published by Chalice Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Religion categories.
Pause from the whirlwind of the holidays to imagine God's vision for a new world in Christ's coming. Inspired by the "peaceable kingdom" scripture from Isaiah 11, these daily, five-minute devotions include scripture, reflections, and a prayer. "The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them." -Isaiah 11: 6. In this Advent devotional centered on the beloved scripture on the "peaceable Kingdom," reflect on God's vision for a new world and what it means for us today. Daily, five-minute devotions explore the courage to imagine, permission to change, and freedom from fear. A scripture verse and prayer round out each devotion. Written by Terri Hord Owens, the leader of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Imagining a New World offers an inspiring pause during the day to reflect more prayerfully on what the season of Advent inspires in you and your community.
Imagining The Small Church
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Author : Steve Willis
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012-11-06
Imagining The Small Church written by Steve Willis and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Religion categories.
Imagining the Small Church: Celebrating a Simpler Path bears witness to what God is doing in small churches. Steve Willis tells stories from the small churches he has pastored in rural, town, and urban settings and dares to imagine that their way of being has something to teach all churches in this time of change in the American Christian Church. Willis tells us in the introduction, 'This book boasts no ten or fifteen steps to a successful small church. Instead, I hope to encourage you to give up on steps altogether and even to give up on success, at least how success is usually measured. I also hope to help the reader imagine the small church differently; to see with new eyes the joys and pleasures of living small and sustainably.' The joys and sorrows Willis helps us see through the compelling stories of faith in the small church puts flesh and bones on the possibilities that lie ahead for congregations in the future as well as the here and now. From the foreword by Tony Pappas: 'In Imagining the Small Church, pastor, writer, and lover of small things Steve Willis takes us on a narrative and imaginative journey. Some readers will have a sense that what Willis is describing simply names what they have already known in their hearts about their small churches. For them the journey will cover some familiar ground, explore some territory from a fresh angle, but deposit them nearly home again, hopefully with just a bit more awareness and appreciation. For others, though, Willis will take them on a long journey to a far and foreign place. They probably won't bother to finish reading it, and they will miss his invitation to find pastoring a small church extremely rewarding and meaningful. They will find this a strange book weird, off-center, and impractical; unlivable in the twenty-first century and undesirable in any event. This is because Willis is taking on the ethos, the values of our age, and claiming that it needn't be so. We can live on a different basis. We can live on the basis of gospel values.' There will be a variety of paths as the Church seeks new ways of being in this time. Willis knows this. In Imagining the Small Church he presents us with one that embraces a life of faith on the periphery and challenges church leaders to do the same.
Imagine Church
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Author : Neil Hudson
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2012-02-17
Imagine Church written by Neil Hudson and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-17 with Religion categories.
How can an ordinary church become a community of people who help one another live out their whole life at home, work, church, in the neighbourhood as followers of Jesus in his mission to the world?
Rooted And Renewing
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Author : Troy M. Troftgruben
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Rooted And Renewing written by Troy M. Troftgruben and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Religion categories.
What does it mean to be church today? As changes in demographics, participation, and leadership continue to roil faith communities in the Western world, questions about the historic roots of church communities have become all the more important. Scholarly investigations of the historical texture of early Christian communities continue to advance our understanding, but are often too technical for non-experts for whom the questions may be more keenly felt. Troy M. Troftgruben provides an accessible, succinct survey of what we now know about the roots of Christian community, taking an "ancient-future" approach by engaging contemporary questions through classical sources. Rooted and Renewing turns to historical-critical and social-scientific studies to portray everyday realities in the earliest communities, especially the Pauline assemblies. Aimed at church members and leaders alike, the book encourages reflection on the church's past so as to explore how Christians are called to be the church in today's world.
New Life Community Church
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Author : New Life Community Church
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-16
New Life Community Church written by New Life Community Church and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-16 with categories.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." - Matthew 5:16 If your church suddenly disappeared, would anyone notice? We can't answer that question without taking a closer look at the type of impact we are making in the world around us... and we may not like the answer we come up with. But what if we could change that? What would happen if every believer began to put action to Matthew 5:16? What if every one of us started to look for ways to make a difference in our immediate circles: our families, our neighborhoods, our workplaces, our communities? What if we started to take a closer look at the spark that God has placed in each of us and began to imagine how we could use that to light up our world with the presence of Jesus? What if we were to shine?
Imagining Church
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Author : Gary A. Shockley
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-01-12
Imagining Church written by Gary A. Shockley and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-12 with Religion categories.
Imagination is one of the great gifts bestowed on us by our Creator, observe authors Gary and Kim Shockley, and it can be the spark that ignites a fire of change in our lives. Drawing on their more than thirty years of pastoral and church consulting experience, the Shockleys illustrate the power of imagination using personal stories born of their own quest to be faithful in ministry. They also show readers that imagining church is a shared experience among God's people. When we imagine the church--forming a mental image of what we believe the church is and ought to be--we are co-creators with the Master Designer, Chief Architect, and Greatest Creator, and can help others imagine church. They remind leaders, "If you can't see it, neither will anyone else." The Shockleys outline how we in the church are now laborers in a new kind of vineyard--one that requires a new way of thinking and acting in our postmodern world. They invite readers to step into the flow of God's activity and, using the gifts God has given us, cooperate in the work of ministry and mission. Rather than suggesting one model or process for church effectiveness ("do it this way and grow"), Imagining Church helps congregational leaders to think more imaginatively about how God is at work in our present ministry contexts. This will help to open ourselves anew to the Spirit of God--the Divine Artist--who is ready to fuel our desire to be the co-creators we are meant to be for the sake of the church.
Transforming Communities
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Author : Steven J. L. Croft
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2002
Transforming Communities written by Steven J. L. Croft and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Christian communities categories.
Suppose for a moment that it is the present way in which we are being church that is not working? If that is the case, then no amount of new thinking about ministry in isolation will be enough to take us forward … It is the contention of this book that a new vision of what it means to be church is required.’ Christians in every place are asking questions about the life of the church. How do we re-imagine what congregations can become? How are we to develop new ways of being church which are sustainable and have the capacity for growth, mission and renewal? Steven Croft believes that part of the answer lies in developing small transforming communities as basic building blocks of Christian congregations. In this important new book he develops a biblical and theological understanding of what the church is called to be, a worked strategy for the future and practical guidelines for those called to help the church’s transition to new models. Transforming Communities draws on the best new thinking about the church from a variety of sources including academic theology, cell church, base ecclesial communities, and the author’s own experience of wrestling with these issues as an Anglican vicar and theological educator. Intended for clergy, ordinands and student ministers, lay leaders concerned with pastoral re-organisation, small group leaders and church members, it is suitable for all denominations and includes study guides to facilitate group work.