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Emerging Churches Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures

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ISBN-10: 0801027152

ISBN-13: 9780801027154

Edition: 2005

Authors: Eddie Gibbs, Ryan K. Bolger, Lynn Cohick

List price: $32.00
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The "emerging church" movement is perhaps the most significant church trend of our day. The emerging church offers and encourages a new way of doing and being the church. While it largely resonates with an eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old audience--the first fully postmodern generation--it is also gaining popularity with older Christians and encompasses a broad array of traditional and contemporary churches. Emerging Churches explores this movement and provides insight into its success.Filled with the latest research and interesting, anecdotal testimonies from those on the cutting edge of ministry, this book provides pastors, church leaders, and interested readers with an insightful glimpse…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Eddie Gibbs is senior professor in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a senior adviser to the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts. His seminars for church leaders about leadership in the emerging church have been held in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Australia, South Africa and around the United States. Gibbs has also written several books, including Good News Is for Sharing, Ten Growing Churches, In Name Only, ChurchNext, LeadershipNext and (with Ryan Bolger) Emerging Churches.

Ryan K. Bolger (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of church in contemporary culture at the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His research focuses on the emerging and missional church movements, and he is the coauthor of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures.

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Brief Look at Culture
What Is the Emerging Church?
Identifying with Jesus
Transforming Secular Space
Living as Community
Welcoming the Stranger
Serving with Generosity
Participating as Producers
Creating as Created Beings
Leading as a Body
Merging Ancient and Contemporary Spiritualites
Conclusion
Leaders in Their Own Words
Research Methodology
Index