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Author : Robert E. Logan
Release : 1990-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 716/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Church Growth by : Robert E. Logan
Download or read book Beyond Church Growth written by Robert E. Logan. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on God's vision for churches in Matthew 28:18-20, this book presents sound methods for making disciples, winning the lost for Christ, and planting new churches.
Author : Steve Simms
Release : 2015-10-22
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 563/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Church by : Steve Simms
Download or read book Beyond Church written by Steve Simms. This book was released on 2015-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted something more from your faith? More than religion? More than church? One lost and forgotten biblical word, "ekklesia," holds the key to a more vibrant and life-changing Christianity. --Modern English language Bibles quote Jesus as saying, "I will build My church." However, the earliest Bibles have Jesus saying, "I will build my ekklesia." For hundreds of years, this Bible word-switch has misdirected the way the body of Christ meets for worship. --So what does ekklesia mean? Ekklesia was the name of the city council in ancient Greek city-states. It was a democratic, interactive, participatory body of equal citizens sharing their concerns and needs with one another. --In the Western world, traditional church is in decline. Religious categories now include millions who are "Dones" (done with church) and "Nones" (have no church affiliation). --Perhaps it is time for more than church. Steve Simms invites you to go "beyond church" and experience ekklesia, HEAVEN's CITY COUNCIL, not as a theological concept, but as a practical and living reality.
Author : Matthew Scherer
Release : 2015-10-15
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Church and State by : Matthew Scherer
Download or read book Beyond Church and State written by Matthew Scherer. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as "a wall of separation between Church and State." Beyond Church and State moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that reshapes both religion and politics. Borrowing a term from religious traditions, the book goes further to argue that this process should be understood as a process of conversion. Matthew Scherer studies Saint Augustine, John Locke, John Rawls, Henri Bergson, and Stanley Cavell to present a more accurate picture of what secularism is, what it does, and how it can be reimagined to be more conducive to genuine democracy.
Author : Dr. Richard Rouse
Release : 2016-05-19
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 278/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Church Walls by : Dr. Richard Rouse
Download or read book Beyond Church Walls written by Dr. Richard Rouse. This book was released on 2016-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral care has been traditionally understood as pastoral acts administered to individuals or small groups by an ordained or lay religious practitioner. As congregations in the twenty-first century begin to reclaim the missional nature of church, this view must be broadened to include care and concern for the needs of the larger community. A missional perspective of pastoral care embraces the notion that all of Gods peoplenot just trained professionalsare called to partner in the healing and redemption of the world. In Beyond Church Walls, Rick Rouse sets out to articulate precisely what such an approach to pastoral care looks likeand the substantial impact it can have on congregations and communities. A skilled teacher and pastor with deep experience in real communities, Rouse leads readers through the changing realities of the twenty-first century and to new ways for missional churches to succeed in offering pastoral care for the whole community.
Author : Mark A. Olson
Release : 2001-12-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 663/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Moving Beyond Church Growth by : Mark A. Olson
Download or read book Moving Beyond Church Growth written by Mark A. Olson. This book was released on 2001-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character development for communities of faith Mark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectations that pastors be all things to all people, has resulted in low morale, even burnout, among clergy and dissension within congregations.Olson's book argues that church-growth models exemplify and exacerbate the tendencies of the modern age and Constantinian Christianity, holding the church hostage to technique and marketing. These assumptions set up pastors and churches for disappointment and failure. But they also, in his opinion, miss an opportunity to envision a faithful alternative to the consumeristic church.Olson's valuable book calls church leaders to faithful, bold, and courageous rethinking of congregational life and witness in substance, purpose, and style. His own 20 years of ministry in rural, suburban, and urban congregations inform an alternative rooted deeply in the past and anchored in strong leadership and worship, but also profoundly compassionate and engaged in the surrounding community. In this model, pastors' primary responsibilities are not to fix everything and everybody but to enable people to be present to each other and to provide hope.
