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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... 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.
... whole greater than the sum of its parts, it is completely, unpredictably, new and more complex. This new “whole” – water – would eventually take its place as apart of some new, unpredictable, and more complex whole. This is how the ...
... whole that comes together from the parts is absolutely unpredictable. The new whole will be greater than the sum of the parts in a specific way – it will be more complex than the parts themselves and of a completely new order. 2. Self ...
... our nerve- endings, and in the lining of our esophagus. Truly useful forms are never left behind. They are taken up as parts in a larger whole. The trick is in discerning what is “truly useful.” When Canadian The emerging ChurCh > 2.
... whole family taking swimming lessons at that pool. Eleven years ago, facing seismic upgrading costs of over three million dollars, the congregation made the difficult decision to sell the historic building and, with the proceeds, to ...