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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... kingdom of God is within you. ~Luke 17:21 ~ This is a dream that came to a member of our planning team just as we were launching a congregational renewal program. It's in two parts. In the first scene, people are standing around a very ...
... kingdom and the emergence of the human being. With the arrival of the human being, the universe gained the capacity to observe itself– a stunning achievement. The universe did all of this without a blueprint, from the inside out ...
... kingdom of God to the growth of a seed. The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself ...
... kingdom of God is within (Luke 17:21). We can trust that life knows how to do life – after all, it has been organizing itself for 14 billion years. Religious institutions, including the church, sometimes act as though they exist to ...
... kingdom of God (Luke 9:62). The fundamental orientation of Christian spirituality is forward-looking. We presence, as in pre-sense, and then enact the new thing God is doing in the world. Followers of Christ are those who lay down the ...