Resurrecting 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 Resurrecting Church write by John Cleghorn. This book was released on 2021-03-02. Resurrecting Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Resurrecting Church interweaves three strands. First, it is the remarkable turnaround story of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, which was on the edge of extinction when author John Cleghorn filled the role of pastor. Second, Cleghorn tells the story of his own growth and liberation from the myopia of privilege. Cleghorn traded his position as senior vice president of the nation's largest bank for ministry and the dusty and dated church office at Caldwell Presbyterian. The third strand includes the stories of several diverse congregations researched by the author. These congregations are examples of faith communities that have taken risks, deepening empathy and seeking justice. Through these stories, the book updates the ""same old"" conversation about church vitality in timely and surprising ways. Cleghorn raises these important questions: Can churches survive, even be resurrected, at the intersections of race, sexuality, class, and faith background? Can congregations be liberated by rebuilding around those on the margins who have been wounded by church? As more US cities become majority-minority, the ""mainline"" church remains stubbornly white and homogeneous. Church leaders and thinkers are seeking ways to build more racial diversity and radical welcome. This book provides hope and practical examples of how this can happen. Cleghorn declares, ""God is doing what Isaiah calls 'a new thing'"" in congregations where multiple types of diversity intersect, erecting spiritual hospitals for the wounded and marginalized. For the church, these intersections provide both a current lens of self-examination and avenues to growth in faith. With stories, people profiles, and insights from their leaders and members, this book breaks new ground with practical learning and lessons drawn from original research and the lived experience of intersectional churches across the US.
Resurrecting Excellence
Resurrecting Excellence - 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 Resurrecting Excellence write by L. Gregory Jones. This book was released on 2006-03-09. Resurrecting Excellence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Resurrecting Excellence aims to rekindle and encourage among Christian leaders an unselfish ambition for the gospel that shuns both competition and mediocrity and rightly focuses on the beauty, power, and excellence of living as faithful disciples of the crucified and risen Christ. Drawing on ancient traditions and on contemporary voices, L. Gregory Jones offer both a theology of excellence and portraits of pastors, lay leaders, and congregations that embody "a more excellent way."--Publisher's description.
Mirror to the Church
Mirror to the 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 Mirror to the Church write by Emmanuel Katongole. This book was released on 2009-05-26. Mirror to the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt these patterns of brokenness But Rwanda also brings us to a place of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda’s genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of Christ—a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel.
Resurrecting Cannibals
Resurrecting Cannibals - 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 Resurrecting Cannibals write by Heike Behrend. This book was released on 2011. Resurrecting Cannibals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accompanying DVD is entitled: "Satan crucified : a crusade of the Catholic Church in western Uganda / a video by Armin Linke and Heike Behrend.
Claiming Resurrection in the Dying Church
Claiming Resurrection in the Dying 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 Claiming Resurrection in the Dying Church write by Anna B. Olson. This book was released on 2015-03-18. Claiming Resurrection in the Dying Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do you minister faithfully to a congregation that is in decline? While many congregations struggle with trying to find the key to regrowth, pastor Anna Olson suggests that the answer may actually be to accept and embrace this moment for what it is. In this beautifully written work, Olson helps pastors recognize that, while the congregation might be going away, the community of which it is a part is still very much alive. Using her own experiences in a dying congregation, Olson encourages pastors to use this opportunity to explore new ways to minister, freely and selflessly, and provides a powerful model of what faithfulness to the gospel looks like. This hopeful book about letting go of false hope gives pastors the guidance they need for ministering effectively during the final stages of a church's life.
