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Rare, however, is the congregation that says its worship is planned to welcome all generations consistently on a weekly basis.
Vanderwell • The Church of All Ages
• As we join with people in our neighborhood, are we seeing fresh ways God is already at work? What are we seeing? • Are we being transformed by this experience? What is changing in us? • Are we discovering how to be church in our communities? What are we discovering?
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
the busy congregation connects to the pursuits of curating a self and of finding a way to cope with speed so that the fullness of busyness can be harvested without guilt.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
divine action becomes obscured in a disenchanted world.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
it also opens up a problem that we feel more acutely in our time. When the pastor is layman-ized and one of us, it becomes much harder for her to call attention to divine action.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Christianity is an embodied way of life, not just an institution or set of ideas.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
The “adepts” in all religions are always forgiving, compassionate, and radically inclusive.
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others” (Bonhoeffer, 1972, 382).
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
empowering leadership, gift-oriented ministry, passionate spirituality, functional structures, inspiring worship, holistic small groups, need-oriented evangelism, and loving relationships.