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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... intentionally create a culture that honours novelty and self-organization, and that is continually in the process of transcending yet including its own structures and systems in faithfulness to the abundant life Christ offers. 1 ...
... intentional process of discerning and deploying our gifts in the congregation and beyond. To give one example, after hearing me preach a sermon on the mystical tradition of our faith, a woman approached me. Her face was radiant. She ...
... intentionally fosters this culture of innovation. The church of the 21st century will come back to life by mimicking the Spirit-infused dynamics of the evolutionary universe. We will embrace novelty, the wild and unpredictable stirrings ...
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