The Boundary-Breaking God An Unfolding Story of Hope and Promise

by Shroyer, Danielle

• ISBN13: 9780470451007
• ISBN10: 0470451009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-05
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This book seeks to tell the story of God not as a one of preservation, but of exploration and expansion, a God who delights in breaking through boundaries, relishes popping up in unexpected places, and favors the outsider over the institutional insider. For the growing number of people who have rejected religious answers that have suffocated their experience of God, this is good news.Recasting God's story as one of expansion and exploration will provide the reader with a new paradigm through which all of faith can be understood. Seeing God's story as a story of boundary breaking will open the reader's imagination and encourage the reader to live as a person of hopeful purpose who attempts to change the world for the better. Rather than compartmentalizing faith to a "spiritualized" realm, faith in the boundary-breaking God engages life at every corner--social, economical, political, intellectual, ecological--and informs the way we faithfully respond in an increasingly complex world.

Author Biography

Danielle Shroyer is pastor of Journey Community Church in Dallas, Taxes, a holistic missional community. Danielle has served in numerous roles, including university chaplaincy, youth ministry, chaplain of a retirement community, and pastor of one of the first independent emergent village coordinating group, focusing in areas of social justice and theology, and she facilitates the Dallas Emergent Cohort.

Table of Contents

A Living Way: Emergent Visions Series Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Universe Is Moving Outward	p. 1
The God of Green Lights	p. 13
We Come Bearing Gifts	p. 31
From Gatekeepers to Door Openers	p. 51
When the End Is Just the Beginning	p. 71
wind Power	p. 87
A Whole New world	p. 105
Epilogue	p. 121
Notes	p. 127
The Author	p. 131
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