Churchnext

by Gibbs, Eddie

• ISBN13: 9780830822614
• ISBN10: 0830822615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Ivp Books

Summary

A 2001Christianity TodayBook 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 movefrom living in the past to engaging the presentfrom being market driven to being mission orientedfrom following celebrities to encountering saintsfrom holding dead orthodoxy to nurturing living faithfrom attracting a crowd to seeking the lostHere 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

From Living in the Past to Engaging with the Present

From Market Driven to Mission Oriented

From Bureaucratic Hierarchies to Apostolic Networks

From Schooling Professionals to Mentoring Leaders

From Following Celebrities to Encountering Saints

From Dead Orthodoxy to Living Faith

From Attracting a Crowd to Seeking the Lost

From Belonging to Believing

From Generic Congregations to Incarnational Communities

Notes

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

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