Being Church in a Liminal Time
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Being Church in a Liminal Time

Remembering, Letting Go, Resurrecting

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eBook - ePub

Being Church in a Liminal Time

Remembering, Letting Go, Resurrecting

About this book

Congregations today exist in an in-between, or liminal, time. The customary answers about what it means to be and do church and strategies for renewal based on those answers no longer work. But there is no certainty about the new answers. It is a time of searching—of letting go of the old and experimenting with the new. This means facing the reality of death, which may come as institutions die or as established ways are abandoned. This book addresses this reality while maintaining a constant focus on the Christian promise of resurrection. It offers three images that recognize the differing contexts of congregations and help them shape their future as they seek to discern God's work in their midst. Congregations shaped by each of the three images (remembering, letting go, and resurrecting) have the potential to faithfully engage in God's work in their setting. For each of the three there are suggestions for helping a congregation move toward an even more faithful expression of the image. The book includes Bible studies and other resources that congregations will find helpful in this process. Some congregations may continue in traditional ways, while others seek a new way of being church. But all can join in God's work in their time and place with a new and deeper understanding of the ministry that is theirs. This book helps them do that. Because a different kind of leadership is needed the book offers an approach to leadership that is grounded in a spiritual process of inward reflection and outward involvement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Being Church in a Liminal Time
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: A Reality Check: Living in the In-Between
  8. Chapter 2: Possibilities for the Future: Discerning an Image of the Congregation
  9. Chapter 3: Remembering: A New Way of Seeing What Was
  10. Chapter 4: Letting Go: Insights from Hospice
  11. Chapter 5: Resurrecting: Spirituality and Ethics Revisited
  12. Chapter 6: A New Model of Leadership: Inwardly Directed and Outwardly Focused
  13. Conclusion
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. About the Authors