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  • A book for the post-pandemic Church

  • Martyn Percy offers a recovery of how to live as the body of Christ

  • The Humble Church helps you collectively relearn how to be a Church again

  • Author

    Martyn Percy

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Canterbury Press

  • Published

    March 2021

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The Humble Church

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In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn.

It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself - its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence - and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ. In other words, what does it need to do in order to become more like Christ?

As Christ poured out his life for the sake of others, he considers ways in which the Church might imitate Christ in practice today. Whenever Jesus visited anywhere beyond the confines of the Jewish community he immediately became socially useful, and so this extols such virtues as humble service in the community, not because it is an effective way to grow the Church, but because it is faithful to Christ's own example.

Avoiding responses such as exasperation, righteous anger at shortcomings or wishful thinking about returning to the past, he sets out a vision for the Church's future that is both biblical and christological.

Incisive, imaginative and engagingly written, this will resonate deeply with many lay and ordained members of the Church.

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  • Author

    Martyn Percy

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Canterbury Press

  • Published

    March 2021

  • Weight

    255g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781786223159

  • ISBN-10

    1786223155

  • Eden Code

    5298768

More Information

  • Author/Creator: Martyn Percy

  • ISBN: 9781786223159

  • Publisher: Canterbury Press

  • Release Date: March 2021

  • Weight: 255g

  • Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • Eden Code: 5298768


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2 years ago

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Martyn Percy doesn't pull any punches in this book. He gives an honest appraisal of the contemporary church and ideas of what is important and how the church should move forward in the light of declining membership.

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