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Kris Vallotton • Heavy Rain: How to Flood Your World with God's Transforming Power
A different imagination is needed across North America, one that is no longer focused on ecclesiocentric questions but seeks to discern how we can go on a shared journey of discernment with the Spirit in the neighborhood.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
The 1960s to Mid-1970s
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
The decision that “we the people” can mobilize our own way of life—matching in intention, but not in form, God’s own design—signals entry into a whole new function of religion matching the conception of the age of mobilization. We enter into a neo-Durkheimian dispensation.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
As the oft-quoted poet Robert Frost mused, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Home is a tremendously weighty word—filled with smells and sounds and memories of pain and hope.
Home is also a golden thread weaved throughout the biblical narrative. As theologian Douglas Meeks comments in his book God the Eco
christianitytoday.com • The Rise of the ‘Umms’
The small-group movement came to the fore as a key for connecting people beyond arid Sunday worship or formal committees.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
Wesley Finck
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being committed to the gospel should include ways of breaking down the barriers between people and the gospel.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
What we actually need is to imagine that God is up to something. Imagine that God is active in the midst of what seems to be an unremitting unraveling of not just our churches but our way of life in North America.