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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... become overly bureaucratic – too many meetings and not enough ministry happening. We have substituted busyness for the real business of the church – helping people to come alive in Christ. Clergy have exhausted themselves being personal ...
... become susceptible to the dominant cultural narratives competing for our allegiance. The good news is that bad habits are possible to break! As liberator, Christ can set us free! Jesus tells a parable about a dishonest steward who gets ...
... become, in the words of the author of 1 Peter, the “living stones” of the new temple. As Jesus' followers accessed their inner power, the new movement would be built from the inside out. This 20 > growing from The inside ouT: The ...
... become immediately evident. But even when we understand that the church is not the building, very quickly other inviolate structures will surface: our organizational model, the time of the worship service, the pews, the hymns, and, of ...
... become potential centres of creative emergence when they consciously align themselves with the evolutionary universe. The form of life that emerges in the church will be Christ-shaped. Creation has a staggering creative capacity for ...