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Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Church Vitality de Stephen Chapin Garner

Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Church Vitality

Autor Stephen Chapin Garner Cu Jerry Thornell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2010
In Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Church Vitality, Stephen Chapin Garner and Jerry Thornell share the story of their home congregation, the United Church of Christ in Norwell, MA. This average congregation has approached congregational life in a not-so-average way. Each congregant is seen as a minister, bringing the good news of Christ to the community; the church has moved away from boards and committees, instead utilizing the people to form ministry teams; and they have revitalized the way they approach and practice worship and education. Garner and Thornell don't claim to have the secret to church growth and vitality, but in sharing the story of their simple church in New England, they give hope and innovative ideas to congregations in regions all over the country.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781566994224
ISBN-10: 1566994225
Pagini: 190
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The religious landscape of our country today is a picture of general decline, but with pockets of vitality-dynamic congregations energized by the Holy Spirit in ways that are inspiring and instructive. They play the role the abbeys played during the Dark Ages, preserving the tradition and building upon it. Chapin Garner serves just such a faith community. There is so much we can learn from him and from the congregation he leads.
Scattering Seeds does a great job of offering a renewed way of doing church, one of which many churches (including ours) have followed and grown spiritually and numerically as a result. It follows a simple but profound idea: listen for and follow the Holy Spirit, and watch what God can do. This book, through stories and testimonials, leads us step-by-step through a process of wonderful transformative possibility.
I can hardly believe this book exists. The church growth and vitality bookcase is stuffed with offerings that permute a few common themes, inspiring delusions of grandeur among eager pastors before crushing them with despair, and promoting forms of Christianity that exchange its edgy prophetic message for smooth harmonization with cultural expectations. At last, here is a book about church vitality that is scrupulously honest, free of pastoral self-deception, sociologically realistic, and packed with reasons to be hopeful about the future of the Christian church.