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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... emerges that makes life possible: water. Nobody could have predicted water from the individual qualities of these two molecules. Creative emergence affirms that not only is the whole greater than the sum The emerging ChurCh > 21.
... individual grows by transcending yet including its constituent parts. What I am proposing in this book is that we apply these evolutionary principles to congregational renewal – that is, that we intentionally create a culture that ...
... individual to reorganize itself in response to changing life conditions. Francesco Varela, a cognitive scientist, coined the term autopoiesis to describe essentially the same thing – the ability of life at all levels to self-renew or to ...
... individuals, when he chooses three of the 12 to accompany him up a mountain. He takes Peter, James, and John to give them a view from above. On the mountain, they see the transfigured Jesus having a chat with Moses and Elijah (Matthew ...
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