A New Kind of Church Understanding Models of Ministry for the 21st Century
- Michigan Baker Book House 2008
- 206p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part 1 Changing Times 1. Who Is Changing? Churches Are Changing 17 2. Why Are Churches Changing? The Buck Stops Here! 29 3. Should Churches Change? Arguments against New-Model Churches 45 Part 2 Changing Churches 4. Doing Church: Interpreting the Biblical Passages 61 5. The Changing Church: Developing a Theology of Change 6. The Connecting Church: Developing a Theology of Culture 95 7. Defining Church: Developing a Definition of the Local Church 115 8. The Serving Church: The Biblical Concept of Servanthood 127 9. The Thinking Church: Evaluating Church Models 135 10. The Strategizing Church: Developing a New-Model Church 163