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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... future that needs us in order to emerge? Disciples in the emerging church are centres of Spirit-animated creativity. Furthermore, this model grounds us in our deep connection with the planet and with all creation. Then, a decade ago ...
... future that desires to be born through them. They are aware that the Spirit-driven universe is evolving in and through their common life together. These congregations view their own co- creative capacity as a sign that the Spirit is ...
... future. We need, therefore, to give ourselves more permission to mimic this life process in our congregations. Anthropologists have noticed that the period of play in mammals – in the first year of life typically – is the time when the ...
... future. This is the good news for those who are frightened by change because they worry about what might be lost. Nothing – at least nothing that worked – is ever lost. It's carried forward, transcended and included in the new form. On ...
... future is emerging through us is to be “rich toward God” (Luke 12:21). Don't get me wrong. It's important to look back, to remember Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. But we look back as a way of looking forward. Nobody, says Jesus ...