Great Giveaway Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies

Name: Great Giveaway Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies
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ISBN: 9780801064838

ISBN-10: 080106483X

ISBN-13: 9780801064838

Edition: 2005 (Annotated)

Authors: David E. Fitch, David E. Fitch

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"North American evangelicals learned to do church in relation to modernity," asserts David Fitch. Furthermore, evangelicals have begun to model their ministries after the secular sciences or even to farm out functions of the church whenever it seems more efficient. As a result, the church, too often, has stopped being the church.In The Great Giveaway, Fitch examines various church practices and shows how and why each function has been compromised by modernity. Discussing such ministries as evangelism, physical healing, and spiritual formation, Fitch challenges Christians to reclaim these lost practices so that the church can regain its influence. Pastors, leaders, and students who minister…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836



Preface


Introduction: The Great Giveaway: Toward a Postmodern Evangelical Ecclesiology


How Evangelicals Give Away ...



Our Definition of Success: When Going from Ten to a Thousand Members in Five Years Is the Sign of a Sick Church



Evangelism: Saving Souls beyond Modernity: How Evangelism Can Save the Church and Make It "Relevant" Again



Leadership: When Evangelical Pastors End Up in Moral Failure: The Missing Link between the Pastorate and the Virtues



The Production of Experience: Why Worship Takes Practice: Toward a Worship That Forms Truthful Minds and Faithful Experience (Not Merely Reinforces the Ones We Walked In With)



The Preaching of the World: The Myth of Expository Preaching: Why We Must Do More Than Wear Scrolls on Our Foreheads



Justice (Our Understanding Of): Practicing Redeemed Economics: Christian Community in but Not of Capitalism



Spiritual Formation: The Need for More Preaching (and Penance) in the Psychologist's Office, or Why Therapy Never Should Have Left the Church in the First Place



Moral Education: Evangelicals and the Training of Our Children to Be Good Americans: The Example of Character Education in the Public Schools


Conclusion: Let Us Return to the Practices


Notes