ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry

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InterVarsity Press, 24. märts 2000 - 252 pages
  • A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year

What will the church be next? CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity. While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known church strategist and practitioner, candidly analyzes these models while proposing nine areas in which the church will need to transform to be biblically true to its message and its mission to the world. With vigor and insight Gibbs shows how we can move

  • from living in the past to engaging the present
  • from being market driven to being mission oriented
  • from following celebrities to encountering saints
  • from holding dead orthodoxy to nurturing living faith
  • from attracting a crowd to seeking the lost

Here is a book that brings together deep understanding of the quantum shifts taking place in our culture along with concrete suggestions for implementing a proactive mission strategy.

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Contents

Acknowledgments
7
From Market Driven to Mission Oriented
36
From Bureaucratic Hierarchies to Apostolic Networks
65
From Schooling Professionals to Mentoring Leaders
92
From Following Celebrities to Encountering Saints
120
From Dead Orthodoxy to Living Faith
146
From Attracting a Crowd to Seeking the Lost
172
From Belonging to Believing
193
From Generic Congregations to Incarnational Communities
217
Notes
240
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About the author (2000)

Eddie Gibbs is senior professor in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a senior adviser to the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts. His seminars for church leaders about leadership in the emerging church have been held in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Australia, South Africa and around the United States. Gibbs has also written several books, including Good News Is for Sharing, Ten Growing Churches, In Name Only, ChurchNext, LeadershipNext and (with Ryan Bolger) Emerging Churches.

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