The Search to Belong
eBook - ePub

The Search to Belong

Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Search to Belong

Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups

About this book

A practical guide for those struggling to build a community of believers in a culture that wants to experience belonging over believingWho is my neighbor? Who belongs to me? To whom do I belong? These are timeless questions that guide the church to its fundamental calling. Today terms like neighbor, family, and congregation are being redefined. People are searching to belong in new places and experiences. The church needs to adapt its interpretations, definitions, and language to make sense in the changing culture.This book equips congregations and church leaders with tools to: • Discern the key ingredients people look for in community • Understand the use of space as a key element for experiencing belonging and community • Develop the "chemical compound" that produces an environment for community to spontaneously emerge • Discover how language promotes specific spatial belonging and then use this knowledge to build an effective vocabulary for community development • Create an assessment tool for evaluating organizational and personal community health

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword: Coach John Wooden
  6. Foreword: Leonard Sweet
  7. Those Who Show Up Along the Way (an introduction)
  8. 1. The Myths of Belonging
  9. 2. Longing to Belong
  10. 3. “Give Me Some Space”
  11. 4. Group Chemistry
  12. 5. Trading Spaces
  13. 6. Searching for a Front Porch
  14. 7. What Now? Finding Harmony
  15. Bibliography
  16. End Notes
  17. About the Publisher
  18. Share Your Thoughts