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Book (822016) Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church
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| Author: |
Beck, Michael Adam and Kleeberger, Tyler |
| Publisher: |
Abingdon Press, 2022 |
| Vendor: |
Cokesbury |
| Length: |
147 Pages |
| Heading: |
LEAD — Leadership
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| Subjects: |
Church Growth/Renewal; Community; Leadership - General; Small Churches; United Methodist Church |
| Location: |
Leadership |
| # Copies: |
4 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9781791025793
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| Description: |
Can rural congregations flourish again? Can new Christian communities succeed in rural areas? Could healthy rural churches catalyze a better future for their declining communities? Collecting stories from the diversity of rural contexts across the US, this book lays out a fresh theology for rural life and offers principles for harnessing the potential of what some consider the forgotten spaces. Each chapter includes a Field Exercise with questions for discussion and suggested actions for leadership teams to work through together and a Field Story illustrating how the chapter’s main ideas can work in a real church setting. Chapters: Start digging here; The state of rural places – welcome to the wilderness; The hope of the rural church – on being thornbushes; Rethinking the parish – barns and bodies; Learning to die somewhere – the necessity of belonging in rural churches; Circles that heal – recovering the art of neighborliness; Preaching non-downloadable content; Cultivating the kingdom of God – place economy; Field cred – key ingredients to rural church leadership; Somewhereness and somebodiness; Koinonia liturgy. Includes bibliography. |
| Age Groups: |
Young Adult; Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)
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