Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, 2nd Edition

by Editor: Dorothy C. Bass (Valparaiso Univ.)

• ISBN13: 9780470569948
• ISBN10: 0470569948
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

An updated edition of the down-to-earth resource that offers twelve practices to make Christian faith a way of lifeMany Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. This best-selling guide helps take belief out of the realm of theory and shows how to live it out in a series of twelve central practices such as hospitality, forgiveness, healing, testimony, and keeping Sabbath. Designed to work across a wide range of Christian laypeople, leaders, denominations, and study groups, this is the second edition of the book that Theology called "... a stimulating contribution to the work of making explicit the connection between what Christians do and what they believe." Contains information on the practices discussed in the book and shows how they relate to and intersect with prayer, worship, and Bible study Offers a guide for conversation, learning, and growth at the back of the book This updated and expanded new edition includes a new introduction and two additional chapters that describes new insights into and experiences with the "practicing our faith" approachThe book includes a variety of prominent contributors, who draw on their rich shared experience as believers, theologians, ethicists, and educators.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1997 edition

Times of Yearning, Practices of Faith

Honoring the Body

Hospitality

Household Economics

Saying Yes and Saying No

Keeping Sabbath

Testimony

Discernment

Shaping Communities

Forgiveness

Healing

Dying Well

Singing Our Lives

Practicing a Way of Life

A Way of Thinking about a Way of Life

References

Index of Scripture References

The Contributors

Conversation Guide

Index

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