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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... Dynamics: Value Systems and Congregational Life ......................................................77 Dr. Clare Graves and Spiral Dynamics; Tier 1 stages from Survivalist to Postmodern; the disqualification game of Tier 1; Tier 2 ...
... dynamic of coming to life is the universe itself. It's been in the process of increasing its capacity for abundant life for 14 billion years: hydrogen and helium atoms organize themselves into stars; stars organize themselves into ...
... dynamic of creative emergence is a fundamental dynamic of life itself and therefore applies every bit as much to congregational life as it does to nature. Congregations become potential centres of creative emergence when they ...
... dynamic. We are meant to evolve. If the Spirit is involved in the evolutionary process – as I believe is the case – then we need to start thinking about our lives in Christ through an evolutionary lens. When Jesus says, “consider the ...
... dynamics. 1. Novelty: the whole that comes together from the parts is absolutely unpredictable. The new whole will be greater than the sum of the parts in a specific way – it will be more complex than the parts themselves and of a ...