Being Church in a Liminal Time: Remembering, Letting Go, Resurrecting
Autor Jeffrey D. Jones, David Fredricksonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538174500
ISBN-10: 1538174502
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustration
Dimensiuni: 154 x 223 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1538174502
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustration
Dimensiuni: 154 x 223 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
How to Read This Book
Final Thoughts Before We Begin
Chapter 1 - A Reality Check: Living in the In-Between
A New Thing
The End of Christendom
The Parable of the Sower
An In-Between Time
Chapter 2 - Possibilities for the Future: Discerning an Image of the Congregation
Discerning the Right Thing
Three Images
When the Images Combine
Remembering - Main Street Church
Letting Go - Trinity Church
Resurrecting - Faith Church
The Inevitability of Loss
Chapter 3 - Remembering: A New Way of Seeing What Was
Endings
Paradox
Addiction
Chapter 4 - Letting Go: Insights from Hospice
Chapter 5 - Resurrecting: Spirituality and Ethics Revisited
The Parable of the Yeast
A Tiny Part of the Whole
Big Effects
A Transforming/Corrupting Presence
A Time-Consuming Process of Change
Nurturing Spirituality
The Examen Prayer
The Rule of Life
Spiritual Direction
Claiming the Ethic of Jesus
Chapter 6 - A New Model of Leadership: Inwardly Directed and Outwardly Focused
A New Model of Leadership
Envision the Productive Community
Look Within
Embrace the Hypocritical Self
Transcend Fear
Embody a Vision of the New Community
Disturb the System
Surrender to the Emergent Process
Entice Through Moral Power
Strength, Sensitivity and Faith
Conclusion
Index
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
How to Read This Book
Final Thoughts Before We Begin
Chapter 1 - A Reality Check: Living in the In-Between
A New Thing
The End of Christendom
The Parable of the Sower
An In-Between Time
Chapter 2 - Possibilities for the Future: Discerning an Image of the Congregation
Discerning the Right Thing
Three Images
When the Images Combine
Remembering - Main Street Church
Letting Go - Trinity Church
Resurrecting - Faith Church
The Inevitability of Loss
Chapter 3 - Remembering: A New Way of Seeing What Was
Endings
Paradox
Addiction
Chapter 4 - Letting Go: Insights from Hospice
Chapter 5 - Resurrecting: Spirituality and Ethics Revisited
The Parable of the Yeast
A Tiny Part of the Whole
Big Effects
A Transforming/Corrupting Presence
A Time-Consuming Process of Change
Nurturing Spirituality
The Examen Prayer
The Rule of Life
Spiritual Direction
Claiming the Ethic of Jesus
Chapter 6 - A New Model of Leadership: Inwardly Directed and Outwardly Focused
A New Model of Leadership
Envision the Productive Community
Look Within
Embrace the Hypocritical Self
Transcend Fear
Embody a Vision of the New Community
Disturb the System
Surrender to the Emergent Process
Entice Through Moral Power
Strength, Sensitivity and Faith
Conclusion
Index
About the Authors
Recenzii
I'm deeply grateful for the deep and balanced wisdom Jeffrey Jones brings to all his work in helping church leaders navigate in challenging times. If you're an ordained or lay Christian leader, you can count on Jeff and Dave's guidance to be both practically relevant and spiritually rich.
Deeply rooted in biblical references, this new book for religious leaders in this post-modern world could serve as a catalyst in a church to face a new future. One strong feature is inviting the reader to reflect on one's own blind spots and biases that contribute to the resistance for change. Besides bravely acknowledging today's challenges, Jones and Fredrickson in the end offer ways to become more aware of reality such as the Examen Prayer, spiritual direction and the Quaker clearness. For the Christian faith to continue, trusting in God's plan along with a new model of leaders who are "inwardly directed and outwardly focused" may give us hope.
Where is the primary focus of your congregation? Is it in the past, present, or future? Being Church in Liminal Time guides congregations through a discernment process, providing provocative questions to assess their capacity for, "Remembering, Letting Go, and Resurrecting." This is a question that every congregation in the U.S. should be asking themselves.
To lead a faith community through uncertainty, especially in settings unready to accept that something is dying, requires updated skills and knowledge. Jones and Fredrickson provide guidance through both instruction and modeling. They look that which is over straight in the face and address what some find too scary to imagine. They do so while never losing hope that, through God's resurrecting love, something new is seeking to be born.
The Church's need to embrace brave change is clear - but how? Technical changes called forth by the pandemic have not addressed the deeper transformation required. The authors do not offer us a book full of strategies; rather, as in the parables of Jesus, we are presented with stories and fundamental images, deep reflection upon which can offer us a path forward towards the resurrection which is our hope.
In and through this book Jeffrey Jones and David Fredrickson offer the Christian churches a bountiful gift. Certainly, it is my hope that it will be seen and received in this way for what they put forward here is nothing less than a careful and honest assessment of the current Church landscape and the presentation of three guiding images and a new model of leadership that could redirect congregational life in bold new ways in this seemingly liminal time. I highly recommend this book to all who still care about the present state and potential future of the Christian churches.
Remarkable!! Jones and Fredrickson have fashioned a work that profoundly declares positive alternatives to the continued decline of the church in this liminal time. It brilliantly holds discordance within the faithfulness of God, reminding us that God is still alive, moving among the people and communities, offering resources and horizons sufficient for our needs. The book is off the charts.
Dave Fredrickson and Jeff Jones have written an insightful book about the church in America today. This is a backdrop for my story and that of many others I meet. I left a church that had nurtured me and prepared me to walk out the door, a church where I had served as a Sunday school teacher, youth group leader, and lay leader. I crossed the road, not far, but a world away from my small suburban church, a church more "Remembering" what had once been. I went to the inner city and became part of an Urban Youth Ministry in one of the poorest and most violent cities in America. I call it my church today, twenty years later, no longer angry at the Church, I now meet the most amazing people who serve alongside me and most all come from the Church "Resurrecting."
Reading motivational books can make a huge difference in how one sees him or herself and the world around them. I was struck by the personal inner focus on the three images of remembering, letting go, and resurrecting. The imagery of a loved one journeying through hospice care and the church's strategic planning response through its membership decline stage helped me to appreciate the relevancy of this book. It draws you toward proactive assimilation and forces the reader to examine how to do Christ's commission inwardly and outwardly, with precision, at the same time. I strongly encourage this book for ecumenical and Christian small group discussion.
Deeply rooted in biblical references, this new book for religious leaders in this post-modern world could serve as a catalyst in a church to face a new future. One strong feature is inviting the reader to reflect on one's own blind spots and biases that contribute to the resistance for change. Besides bravely acknowledging today's challenges, Jones and Fredrickson in the end offer ways to become more aware of reality such as the Examen Prayer, spiritual direction and the Quaker clearness. For the Christian faith to continue, trusting in God's plan along with a new model of leaders who are "inwardly directed and outwardly focused" may give us hope.
Where is the primary focus of your congregation? Is it in the past, present, or future? Being Church in Liminal Time guides congregations through a discernment process, providing provocative questions to assess their capacity for, "Remembering, Letting Go, and Resurrecting." This is a question that every congregation in the U.S. should be asking themselves.
To lead a faith community through uncertainty, especially in settings unready to accept that something is dying, requires updated skills and knowledge. Jones and Fredrickson provide guidance through both instruction and modeling. They look that which is over straight in the face and address what some find too scary to imagine. They do so while never losing hope that, through God's resurrecting love, something new is seeking to be born.
The Church's need to embrace brave change is clear - but how? Technical changes called forth by the pandemic have not addressed the deeper transformation required. The authors do not offer us a book full of strategies; rather, as in the parables of Jesus, we are presented with stories and fundamental images, deep reflection upon which can offer us a path forward towards the resurrection which is our hope.
In and through this book Jeffrey Jones and David Fredrickson offer the Christian churches a bountiful gift. Certainly, it is my hope that it will be seen and received in this way for what they put forward here is nothing less than a careful and honest assessment of the current Church landscape and the presentation of three guiding images and a new model of leadership that could redirect congregational life in bold new ways in this seemingly liminal time. I highly recommend this book to all who still care about the present state and potential future of the Christian churches.
Remarkable!! Jones and Fredrickson have fashioned a work that profoundly declares positive alternatives to the continued decline of the church in this liminal time. It brilliantly holds discordance within the faithfulness of God, reminding us that God is still alive, moving among the people and communities, offering resources and horizons sufficient for our needs. The book is off the charts.
Dave Fredrickson and Jeff Jones have written an insightful book about the church in America today. This is a backdrop for my story and that of many others I meet. I left a church that had nurtured me and prepared me to walk out the door, a church where I had served as a Sunday school teacher, youth group leader, and lay leader. I crossed the road, not far, but a world away from my small suburban church, a church more "Remembering" what had once been. I went to the inner city and became part of an Urban Youth Ministry in one of the poorest and most violent cities in America. I call it my church today, twenty years later, no longer angry at the Church, I now meet the most amazing people who serve alongside me and most all come from the Church "Resurrecting."
Reading motivational books can make a huge difference in how one sees him or herself and the world around them. I was struck by the personal inner focus on the three images of remembering, letting go, and resurrecting. The imagery of a loved one journeying through hospice care and the church's strategic planning response through its membership decline stage helped me to appreciate the relevancy of this book. It draws you toward proactive assimilation and forces the reader to examine how to do Christ's commission inwardly and outwardly, with precision, at the same time. I strongly encourage this book for ecumenical and Christian small group discussion.