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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... Organizing for Emergence: A Bureaucracy of Trust ................................171 Principles for organization – ministry anywhere, anytime, by anybody; getting out of meetings and into ministry; gift-based service; policy governance ...
... organize themselves into stars; stars organize themselves into galaxies; and galaxies organize themselves into solar systems. And in one of those solar systems our planetary home came to life. When it did, there was no stopping the ...
... organize around small groups, develop a worship band and use multimedia projection, or do an audit to determine if we have the five or ten marks of a healthy congregation. I've read many of these programs and have tried more than a few ...
... organizing itself in the direction of increasing complexity, consciousness, beauty, and compassion. What leaves scientists baffled is that there is no external force driving this process. It is a built-in feature of the universe, a part ...
... organize under the pressure of a crisis. We'll see in a later chapter that there are certain boundaries that need to be put in place, but once this is done we can observe and learn this life lesson of the universe – that cultures of ...