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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... difference we intend to make and for whom chapter five From Church Spire to Spiral Dynamics: Value Systems and Congregational Life ......................................................77 Dr. Clare Graves and Spiral Dynamics; Tier 1 ...
... differences, emotional intelligence, and shadow work; Jesus' shadow work; being a non-anxious presence chapter nine Like Living Stones: The Spiritual Foundations of Leadership ...................129 Core capacities – stillness through ...
... difference in the world. There is so much untapped potential in our congregations. Jesus unfurled the scroll of Isaiah one day in the synagogue and read from a section in which Isaiah makes the bold claim that the Spirit of the Lord was ...
... difference in a hurting world. If we are to survive as a species, God needs us to help the human race grow into the humility of the Christ. We're crowding out other life forms on the planet, and degrading our bio-systems as we multiply ...
... difference is that because we have the gift of conscious self- awareness, we can consciously participate in the evolutionary thrust of the universe (the life of the Spirit). We can learn to be master-adapters. Just as corporations have ...