The great giveaway: reclaiming the mission of the church from big business, parachurch organizations, psychotherapy, consumer capitalism, and other modern maladies
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Baker Books
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Edition: | 2. printing |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Evangelization
/ Church growth
/ Evangelical movement
B USA / Value education / Protestant upbringing / Evangelical movement |
| Further subjects: | B
Mission of the church
United States
B Evangelicalism United States |
| Item Description: | Introduction : the great giveaway or toward an evangelical postmodern ecclesiology -- Our definition of success -- When going from ten to a thousand members in five years is the sign of a sick church -- Evangelism -- Saving souls beyond modernity : how evangelism can save the church and make it "relevant" again -- Leadership -- When evangelical pastors end up in moral failure : the missing link between the pastorate and the virtues -- The production of experience -- Why worship takes practice : toward a worship that forms truthful minds and faithful experience (not merely reinforces the ones we walked in with) -- The preaching of the Word -- The myth of expository preaching : why we must do more than wear scrolls on our foreheads -- Justice (our understanding of) -- Practicing redeemed economics : Christian community in but not of capitalism -- Spiritual formation -- The need for more preaching (and penance) in the psychologist's office : or why therapy never should have left the church in the first place -- Moral education -- Evangelicals and the training of our children to be good Americans : the example of character education in the public schools -- Conclusion : let us return to the simple practices - Includes bibliographical references |
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| ISBN: | 080106483X |