Emerging Churches
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This is a major study of changing church patterns in the West. In many parts of Europe and North America, the decline of the major traditional denominations continues unabated. But it seems that people these days are not less religious: rather their religious beliefs are rooted in personal experience rather than in community identity and loyalty to historic institutions. For the first time, religion is being chosen rather than received and this change has contributed to the growth in frontier fellowships, commonly known as the 'emerging church'.
This book is intended to offer a multinational, Spirit-inspired testimony to the insights of these 'new, fragile, vulnerable' groups and churches.;Filled with the latest research on what's happening on both sides of the Atlantic, it also features fascinating interview testimonies from forty-nine emerging church leaders on the cutting edge of ministry, including: Jonny Baker (Grace, London), Phil Bail (New Generation Ministries, Bristol), Kester Brewin (Vaux, London), Mal Caliadine (Tribal Generation, Sheffield), Steve Collins (Grace, London), Simon Hall (Revive, Leeds), Paul Roberts (Third Sunday Service, Resonance, Bristol), Pete Rollins (Ikon, Belfast), Dan Slatter (Warehouse, Chichester), Andy Thornton (Late, Late Service, Host and Vaux, London), Dave Tomlinson (Holy Joes, London), Sue Wallace (Visions, York).
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Author Eddie Gibbs;Ryan Bolger
ISBN/Ref
9780281057917
Size:
234mm(H) x 156mm(W) x 23mm(D) ( 0.582Kg ) Pages
384
Publisher
SPCK
Published 2006-01-20
Format paperback
Product ID
109052
Customer Reviews
Essential reading for anyone interested in the emerging church. Based on five years of research and vast volumes of interviews, Gibbs & Bolger have written a very comprehensive analysis of the qualities that, in their view, make an emerging church. They find that there are nine characteristics that the emerging churches have in common, such as 'Transforming Secular Space' and 'Serving The Stranger', and they describe each one in the words of those involved in the churches.
By their own admission, the book is very focussed on analysis and description rather than argument and critique, but for me that's where this book comes into its own - its neutral, descriptive language helped me as a non-theologian (at the time), understand more about the emerging church without the technical language.
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