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Norma Cook-Everist
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1517 Media
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May 2002
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May 2002
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Why is it so difficult to be part of the church today? Of course, Christian community is marked by ennobling worship, mutual care, and joyful celebration. But just as often it is marred by staid routine, insularity, and disagreement over leadership, budgets, ethical stances, or even the shape of congregational prayer itself. Alienation, blame, and power struggles ensue. Is church worth it? In this volume of fresh thinking about life in Christian community, twenty-one theologians from Wartburg Seminary strongly attest to Christ-centered community, offering new views of church as the indispensable site of radical Christian commitment and an essential healer for a hurting world.
Reflective churchgoers will find here a virtual theological guide to church renewal. In part 1 the authors show how church can model an alternative vision of community, helping people achieve well-being and health, even as their differences are affirmed. Part 2 gets to the heart of Christian practice through creative discussions of belief, fellowship, encounters with Scripture, preaching, and moral deliberation. Part 3 finds the church in motion in new ways of understanding discipleship and mission near and far. Part 4 shows how a Christ-inspired openness can reveal new perspectives on tough issues of public policy, race and class, and ordination of gays and lesbians. Modeling what they espouse, the authors find unanimity in affirming the strengths of diversity, the unsuspected key to church renewal.
Author
Norma Cook-Everist
Book Format
paperback
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
May 2002
Editor
Norma Everist
Weight
318g
Page Count
263
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 17 mm
ISBN
9780800634780
ISBN-10
0800634780
Eden Code
115584
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Author/Creator: Norma Cook-Everist
ISBN: 9780800634780
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: May 2002
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Eden Code: 115584