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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... wisdom, clarity of thought, and editorial acumen to the task with characteristic grace and skill. I have been influenced by many wonderful souls, including Matthew Fox, who was the first to validate my intuition of the shortcomings of a ...
... wisdom of the Christ. The challenge for our team would be to ignite the inner radiance of our life together as a congregation. The early church was no different. It was forced to contend with the reality that Temple worship in Jerusalem ...
... wisdom found in scripture (Proverbs 8). 3. Transcendence and inclusion: an organism, a system, or an individual grows by transcending yet including its constituent parts. What I am proposing in this book is that we apply these ...
... Wisdom, and is fully embodied in human form in Jesus of Nazareth. The central thesis of this book is that the church of the 21st century must tap into this ancient, ever-renewing wisdom, if we are to thrive and not just survive ...
... wisdom teacher repeatedly taught. What we need is spiritual wisdom, not the removal of original sin. This spiritual wisdom comes from our scriptural tradition, from the wisdom traditions of other faith systems, from creation, and from ...