The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World write by Deanna A. Thompson. This book was released on 2016-11-01. The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We live in a wired world where 24/7 digital connectivity is increasingly the norm. Christian megachurch communities often embrace this reality wholeheartedly while more traditional churches often seem hesitant and overwhelmed by the need for an interactive website, a Facebook page and a twitter feed. This book accepts digital connectivity as our reality, but presents a vision of how faith communities can utilize technology to better be the body of Christ to those who are hurting while also helping followers of Christ think critically about the limits of our digital attachments. This book begins with a conversion story of a non-cell phone owning, non-Facebook using religion professor judgmental of the ability of digital tools to enhance relationships. A stage IV cancer diagnosis later, in the midst of being held up by virtual communities of support, a conversion occurs: this religion professor benefits in embodied ways from virtual sources and wants to convert others to the reality that the body of Christ can and does exist virtually and makes embodied difference in the lives of those who are hurting. The book neither uncritically embraces nor rejects the constant digital connectivity present in our lives. Rather it calls on the church to a) recognize ways in which digital social networks already enact the virtual body of Christ; b) tap into and expand how Christ is being experienced virtually; c) embrace thoughtfully the material effects of our new augmented reality, and c) influence utilization of technology that minimizes distraction and maximizes attentiveness toward God and the world God loves.
The Living Church
The Living Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Living Church write by John Stott. This book was released on 2021-04-30. The Living Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What exactly is a living church? Author John Stott explains, 'We need more radically conservative churches: "conservative" in the sense that they conserve what Scripture plainly requires, but radical in relation to that combination of tradition and convention that we call 'culture'. Scripture is unchangeable, but culture is not.' 'The Living Church' brings together a number of characteristics of what the author calls 'authentic' or 'living' church. The marks, being clearly biblical, are timeless and need to be preserved. We are encouraged to become learning churches, caring churches, worshipping churches and evangelising churches. John Stott unpacks the Bible's wisdom rigorously with a teacher's skill and applies it faithfully with a pastor's heart. Becoming a living church is not an impossible goal.
Being the Body of Christ
Being the Body of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being the Body of Christ write by Marci Alborghetti. This book was released on 2012. Being the Body of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One is his mother. Another is a friend. Still another is a stranger. They are among the seven people who witness Jesus' death on the cross. Their remarkable, life-altering stories are told here, in Being the Body of Christ: What the People of the Passion Teach us about Jesus Today. Drawing from Scripture and tradition, Marci Alborghetti creates tender, profoundly personal depictions of each encounter; we feel Mary's anguish as she holds her son's cold, tattered body and recalls rocking her newborn; we stand with John at the foot of the cross, somewhere between hope and despair. We feel the Centurion's bewilderment, Magdalene's grief, and Nicodemus' wrenching regret. "These are the people who can become our guides as we seek to commit ourselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually to Jesus and his teaching," says Alborghetti. Each chapter offers questions and topics for personal reflection or group discussion, making this an inspiring and cherished companion for all who seek deeper participation in the body of Christ. Book jacket.
The Body of Christ
The Body of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body of Christ write by Witness Lee. This book was released on 1998-02. The Body of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Life in the Body of Christ
Life in the Body of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life in the Body of Christ write by Curtis C. Thomas. This book was released on 2006. Life in the Body of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas offers practical, biblical instruction on a wide range of issues involving individual and corporate participation and responsibility in the life of a local church. (Christian)
