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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158599803321

Autore

Collins Travis

Titolo

From the steeple to the street : innovating mission and ministry through fresh expressions of church / / Travis Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Franklin, Tennessee : , : Seedbed, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-62824-302-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages)

Disciplina

262.009015

Soggetti

Church - Biblical teaching

Pastoral theology - Biblical teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Graham Cray -- Introduction. A tent revival church -- Part one. Your church -- 1. If you're discouraged, you're not alone -- 2. When a contemporary service, a vision statement and a strategy team aren't enough -- 3. Missional pastors are in great demand -- 4. Taking the church Jesus loves closer to where the people Jesus loves actually are -- 5. The mixed economy: inherited churches and fresh expressions of church -- A fresh expression story: King Street Church -- Part two. Theology, ecclesiology, and missiology -- 6. Theology, missiology, and fresh expressions of church -- 7. What's the Trinity got to do with it? -- 8. Living among the people you are trying to reach -- 9. Whole person/whole creation -- 10. Salvation and evangelism -- 11. The scandal of particularity -- 12. The wind of the Spirit -- 13. What is a church? -- 14. Luke, Acts, and a biblical direction -- A fresh expressions story: R Church -- Part three. Fresh expressions (new forms) of church -- 15. A fascinating, encouraging story -- 16. Apostles and pioneers: "dreamers who do" -- 17. Preliminaries -- 18. How this generally unfolds (part 1) -- 19. How this generally unfolds (part 2) -- 20. Worship -- 21. Preaching and communion -- 22. Answering the questions (part 1) -- 23. Answering the questions (part 2) -- A fresh expressions story: at the intersection of Grace and Main -- Part four. A way forward -- 24. Existing churches are not obsolete -- 25. Creating a missional culture, however, is critical (and hard) --



26. You and your church can do this.