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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... creative emergence chapter two Shift Happens: From Form-Fetish to Function-First ..................................39 Water into wine; handpicking a Think Tank; Transfiguration; parts and wholes; chaos theory and congregations chapter ...
... creativity; Brian Swimme, who deconstructed the scientific materialism of my secular education, and the theistic theological models of my religious education, with a scientific/sacred cosmology that spoke to my soul; Marcus Borg, who ...
... creativity. I want to be with others who drink deeply from the well of living waters and then make a Christ-shaped offering of all the nourishment they've received. In other words, I want to be with those who want to make a difference ...
... creativity. Furthermore, this model grounds us in our deep connection with the planet and with all creation. Then, a decade ago, physicist Brian Swimme and cultural historian and Roman Catholic priest Thomas Berry helped me to view the ...
... creativity. This is what we need to light up our congregations – permission to be centres of creative discipleship. I wrote thisbookfor church leaders, both lay and clergy, who are ready to act as guides on this journey of ...