Dying Church, Living God

by Meyer, Chuck

• ISBN13: 9781896836393
• ISBN10: 1896836399
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Northstone Pub Inc

Summary

Make a new church. That's the challenge Chuck Meyer lays down for readers. He writes that the institutional church we know so well is dying. In fact, it may already be dead. Its structure and theology make no sense today, and haven't for decades. It has ceased to be an adequate instrument for the Living God who refuses to be bound by it, to it, or in it. Dying Church, Living God is a provocative, radical look at the church as it enters the 21st century. "In the midst of all this enormous change, the Church still conducts worship services at hours based around 19th-century milking schedules...There is an incredibly deep spiritual hunger gnawing at people" that Chuck Meyer believes the church must address. Acknowledgement of the death of the church and the inevitable resurrection is both the premise and the promise of this provocative, enlightening book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Achtung!/Warning!/Peligro!	11	(10)
From SNAFU to FUBAR	21	(20)
Beyond FUBAR	41	(16)
A Living Leaking God	57	(24)
Death before Resurrection	81	(22)
Our Lady of the X-Files and Zorba	103	(14)
Rasslin' toward Resurrection	117	(14)
No Religion Too	131	(10)
Questions for Discussion	141