The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & Map for RenewalWood Lake Publishing Inc. - 224 pages Realizing the importance of creating a practical guide for both ministers and congregations seeking to shift their congregational culture towards a progressive form of Christianity, Bruce Sanguin grounds The Emerging Church in the experience of his own congregation, Canadian Memorial United, as way to establish context and to share real-life examples. At the same time, he peppers the book with insights from leading edge science, including the science of emergence, chaos theory, quantum physics, field theory, spiral dynamics, and evolutionary science. Download the spiral dynamics charts Spiral Dynamics Chart and Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck. Written in language lay people can understand, The Emerging Church is filled with no-nonsense, realistic advice on the pitfalls and possibilities of following the vision of the emerging Christian way. Nudged by an evolutionary Spirit and drawn by the love of Christ into an emerging future, the church of the loving and living Christ may be the "best kept secret of our day." In The Emerging Church, Bruce Sanguin shares "the secret" with anyone and everyone willing to listen. |
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... Body of Christ: Vision and Mission ....................................................63 Good ideas versus governing ideas; Jesus' mission; Jesus' vision; writing mission and vision statements; the difference we intend to make and for ...
... body of Christ. We've tried to take this seriously at Canadian Memorial by developing an intentional process of discerning and deploying our gifts in the congregation and beyond. To give one example, after hearing me preach a sermon on ...
... bodies, vestiges of a particular form of bacteria with a whip-like tail are carried forward and take their place in the tail of a sperm cell, in our nerve- endings, and in the lining of our esophagus. Truly useful forms are never left ...
... body of Christ, the church, God is doing a new thing. God is transforming lives in our congregations to take up this great mission, one disciple of Christ at a time, from the inside out. We can show how Christ, known in Jesus of ...
... body quivering in controlled rage as she solemnly swore that she would chain herself to a pew if we were to go forward. The pews are still there! hand-picking a think tank Nine months into my tenure, at a board retreat, I asked for ...