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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... metaphors of emergence currently in circulation these days. New Testament scholar and author Marcus Borg contrasts ... metaphor and takes the Bible seriously, but not literally. Essentially, this is a church that has transcended mythic ...
... metaphor of growth in Christ in an explicitly developmental, if not evolutionary, way: “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult I put an end to childish ways” (1 ...
... metaphor of growth in Jesus' teachings: seeds that grow mysteriously on their own, the importance of the fertility of soil for the growth of the seed, the futility of a fig tree that doesn't grow, mustard plants that spread wildly ...
... metaphor may help people deal with their fear of change. Try setting the fear within a larger context. Have a conversation about how we all attained our current physical form: two legs, two arms, a torso, and a head with a three-tier ...
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