Reinventing your church /
If your church could start all over ... Is any one way really the "right" way for your church to impact today's rapidly changing culture? With all the different church models to choose from, does any one of them truly offer "The Answer"? Whether your church is large or small...
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Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Zondervan,
c1998
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : If you have a new world, you need a new church. You have a new world
- Strategy one : Maximize discontinuity : distinguish between renewed, restored, and reconceived churches, and focus on the last
- Strategy two : Redefine your mission : clarify and simplify to "more Christians, better Christians," and take both parts seriously
- Strategy three : Practice systems thinking : see the church program in terms of interrelated systems rather than quick fixes
- Strategy four : Trade up your traditions for tradition : distinguish between church traditions and the Christian Tradition, and move emphasis from the former to the latter
- Strategy five : Resurrect theology as art and science : stop thinking of theology as a matter of technical training, in which answers are already known, and rejuvenate theology through a quest for truth and beauty
- Strategy six : Design a new apologetic : find fresh ways to communicate the gospel to the postmodern mind
- Strategy seven : Learn a new rhetoric : realize that old communication patterns are less and less effective in the new world, and discover new, appropriate modes of discourse
- Strategy eight : Abandon structures as they are outgrown : adopt a new paradigm for church structure that allows for routine reengineering based on changes in size, constituency, resources, and strategy
- Strategy nine : Save the leaders : recognize the terrible toll that the transition time is taking on leaders; recognize their immense value to the church at this time; help them to be "saved" for their needed work
- Strategy ten : Subsume missions in mission : understand the crisis in world missions, and help launch a new missionary movement
- Strategy eleven : Look ahead, farther ahead : anchor your hope in the future rather than the past, and explore a new eschatology
- Strategy twelve A : Enter the postmodern world, part A : understand it : understand postmodernism, and learn to see it from the inside
- Strategy twelve B : Enter the postmodern world, part B : engage it : engage postmodernism and maximize the opportunities it presents
- Strategy thirteen : Add to this list : help your church become a learning organization that discovers and implements its own new strategies
- Appendix : Strategy specifics
- About the author
- Introduction : If you have a new world, you need a new church. You have a new world
- Strategy one : Maximize discontinuity : distinguish between renewed, restored, and reconceived churches, and focus on the last
- Strategy two : Redefine your mission : clarify and simplify to "more Christians, better Christians," and take both parts seriously
- Strategy three : Practice systems thinking : see the church program in terms of interrelated systems rather than quick fixes
- Strategy four : Trade up your traditions for tradition : distinguish between church traditions and the Christian Tradition, and move emphasis from the former to the latter
- Strategy five : Resurrect theology as art and science : stop thinking of theology as a matter of technical training, in which answers are already known, and rejuvenate theology through a quest for truth and beauty
- Strategy six : Design a new apologetic : find fresh ways to communicate the gospel to the postmodern mind
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- Strategy seven : Learn a new rhetoric : realize that old communication patterns are less and less effective in the new world, and discover new, appropriate modes of discourse
- Strategy eight : Abandon structures as they are outgrown : adopt a new paradigm for church structure that allows for routine reengineering based on changes in size, constituency, resources, and strategy
- Strategy nine : Save the leaders : recognize the terrible toll that the transition time is taking on leaders; recognize their immense value to the church at this time; help them to be "saved" for their needed work
- Strategy ten : Subsume missions in mission : understand the crisis in world missions, and help launch a new missionary movement
- Strategy eleven : Look ahead, farther ahead : anchor your hope in the future rather than the past, and explore a new eschatology
- ^
- Strategy twelve A : Enter the postmodern world, part A : understand it : understand postmodernism, and learn to see it from the inside
- Strategy twelve B : Enter the postmodern world, part B : engage it : engage postmodernism and maximize the opportunities it presents
- Strategy thirteen : Add to this list : help your church become a learning organization that discovers and implements its own new strategies
- Appendix : Strategy specifics
- About the author