Finding Abundance in Scarcity
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Finding Abundance in Scarcity

Steps Towards Church Transformation A HeartEdge Handbook

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Finding Abundance in Scarcity

Steps Towards Church Transformation A HeartEdge Handbook

About this book

All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. None has been more imaginative or inventive than London's St Martin in the Fields. Through its HeartEdge programmes, it has continued many aspects of its ministry, and developed significant new initiatives and is now a virtual college with an impressively varied programme for practitioners.Here the St Martin's team reflects theologically and share its newly found pastoral and practical wisdom in many areas: • Finding God in Lockdown• Meeting God and One Another Online• Rediscovering Contemplative Prayer• Facing Grief amidst Separation• Preaching at Such a Time as This• Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Time• Hearing Scripture Together in Difficult Times• Praying through Crisis• Creating a Community of Practitioners• Finding Faith at Home• Conclusion: A Strategy for TransformationThe Contributors are all on the staff at St Martin's and key figures in HeartEdge: Sam Wells, Richard Carter, Sally Hitchiner, Fiona MacMillan, Jonathan Evens and Andrew Earis.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright information
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Preface: Abundance in a Time of Scarcity
  5. Introduction: A Theological and Pastoral Framework
  6. 1. Finding God in Lockdown
  7. 2. Meeting God and One Another Online
  8. 3. Rediscovering Contemplative Prayer
  9. 4. Facing Grief Amid a Pandemic
  10. 5. When I was Hungry, You Fed Me
  11. 6. Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Time
  12. 7. The Virtual Gift of Art
  13. 8. Hearing Scripture Together in Difficult Times
  14. 9. Discerning the Wisdom of Prophetic Lives
  15. 10. Recentring Disability
  16. 11. Reimagining Expatriate Christian Identity
  17. 12. Praying Through Crisis
  18. 13. Creating a Community of Practitioners
  19. 14. Finding Faith at Home
  20. Conclusion: A Strategy for Transformation
  21. Epilogue: Being Church in a Global Pandemic
  22. Contributors