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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... evolve, in a Christ-informed way, along with the rest of the universe, and according to the fundamental principles of nature. This evolutionary paradigm invites us to be in conversation with scientific The emerging ChurCh > 15.
... evolve. At the same time, I have tried to make this language accessible to people like myself, a non-scientist. One of the scientific principles that is central to this work is called creative emergence, which I describe in Chapter 1 ...
... 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 lily, how it grows” and ...
... evolve in Christ. In other words, the “growth that is from God” is evolutionary in nature. emergence As a scientific principle, creative emergence is defined by three core dynamics. 1. Novelty: the whole that comes together from the ...
... evolve? What needs to be transcended, yet included? 3. Novelty: What is the new thing that God is doing in your congregation? How did it come about? Do you feel free to play with new forms and structures? two Shift Happens: From Form ...