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In dying we are born- [e-book] : the challenge and the hope for congregations.
In dying we are born- [e-book] : the challenge and the hope for congregations.
- 자료유형
- 전자책
- ISBN
- 9781566993579
- 저자명
- Bush, Peter.
- 서명/저자
- In dying we are born - [e-book] : the challenge and the hope for congregations. Bush, Peter
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2008.
- 형태사항
- 147 p.
- 내용주기
- In dying we are born : the challenge and the hope for congregations -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: A Review and Critique of Some Models of Congregational Renewal -- Chapter 2: Congregations Confront Their Mortality -- Chapter 3: Leading a Dying Congregation -- Chapter 4: Spiritual Practices for Dying Congregations -- Chapter 5: The Congregation Raised from Death to Life -- Chapter 6: Dying as the Way to Life -- Epilogue -- Notes
- 초록/해제
- 요약 : Deeply ingrained in Western culture, and in the minds of most church leaders, is the belief that there is a solution to every problem. Peter bush offers a powerful challenge to this approach, arguing that for new life, energy, and passion to arise in congregations, they must die--die to one way of being the church in order that a new way may rise. Bush identifies two types of dying congregations. Some congregations need to close their doors, bringing to an end years of ministry. Other congregations need to dramatically change their culture and ways of doing ministry. Such change may not entail literally closing the congregation's doors, but it will require people giving up deeply held understandings of the life and purpose of the congregation. All congregations, Bush contends, even ones that see themselves as healthy, need to be prepared to die, to take up their cross, so God can make them alive. A skillful storyteller, Bush shows readers why churches must confront their mortality. He examines the role of the prophetic leader, who proclaims both the congregation's death and its resurrection. He explores spiritual practices and the habits of wonder, remember, and risk taking for congregations that know they are dying--or need to die. Only by dying, Bush says, will a congregation find resurrection life, given by God who raises the dead to life
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- Bush, Peter
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- chimsin:483921