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The Once and Future Church Collection

The Once and Future Church Collection
Author: Loren B. Mead
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2001-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566996635

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In 1991 The Once and Future Church by Alban Institute founder and former director Loren B. Mead created an instant sensation in congregational circles with its prophetic insights into the life of the church in a post-Christendom era. Still often-quoted and in demand, the book stands as Alban's all-time best seller. Two subsequent titles, Transforming Congregations for the Future and Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church, extended Mead's original vision with similar success. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of The Once and Future Church, Alban released all three of these books as a single, special edition hardcover. In addition to these classic texts in beautiful, newly designed formats, this collection features an interview with Loren Mead discussing how his views have changed since the books' first publications and his current thoughts on directions for the church in the twenty-first century. This hardcover volume is the perfect gift for graduating seminary students, new congregational leaders, or for pastors whose original editions of these three books may be dog-eared or missing--and a wonderful addition to every church library. All who love the church and pray for the future of our congregations will value this opportunity to have Loren Mead's seminal works in a single, long-lived edition.


The Once and Future Church

The Once and Future Church
Author: Loren B. Mead
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 129
Release: 1991-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566996627

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Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier


Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church

Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church
Author: Loren B. Mead
Publisher: Alban Books
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781566991759

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The book elaborates on these five challenges: To transfer the ownership of the church; to find new structures to carry our faith; to discover a passionate spirituality; to feed the world's need for community; to become an apostolic people.


Future Church

Future Church
Author: Will Mancini
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493427806

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Church growth models have often been long on promises and short on disciple-making. We continue to watch consistent church attendance shrink, and our desire to reach the lost is infected with a need for self-validation by growing our numbers at any cost. If we believe that God wants his church to grow, where do we go from here? What is the future of the church? Drawing from his 20 years and 15,000 hours of consulting, author Will Mancini shares with pastors and ministry leaders the single most important insight he has learned about church growth. With plenty of salient stories and based solidly on the disciple-making methods found in Scripture, Future Church exposes the church's greatest challenge today, and offers 7 transforming laws of real church growth so that we can faithfully and joyfully fulfill Jesus's Great Commission.


The Once and Future Church Study Guide

The Once and Future Church Study Guide
Author: Gilbert R. Rendle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1995-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566996643

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Church boards, congregational planning groups, judicatory study groups, and people exploring their own religious experiences in the congregation will find themselves in new territory, using their own insights as well as Mead's. Can be used independently with either or both of Mead's books; includes suggestions for Bible study and group exercises.


Ancient Faith for the Church's Future

Ancient Faith for the Church's Future
Author: Mark Husbands
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-09-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830861238

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Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman bring together select essays from the 2007 Wheaton Theology Conference, Ancient Faith for the Church's Future demonstrates the vitality and significance of the early church for contemporary Christian witness and practice. These fourteen essays provide for a significant evangelical ressourcement by considering the importance of the thought and practice of the patristic church especially for our (1) interpreting Scripture, (2) engaging in missional witness through hospitality, social justice and evangelism, (3) renewing our worship and prayer, (4) grasping afresh our salvation through Jesus Christ, and (5) authentically engaging our surrounding culture. Fresh and forward-looking, this book leads the way toward a deeply rooted church that points beyond contemporary evangelical accommodation to civil religion, privatism and enlightenment methodologies toward its true vocation to bear vital witness to God's present and coming kingdom. Contributors include Christopher A. Hall Brian E. Daley, S.J. D. H. Williams Michael Graves Peter J. Leithart Nicholas Perrin Christine Pohl George Kalantzis Alan Kreider John Witvliet Paul I. Kim D. Stephen Long Jason Byassee


Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church

Five Challenges for the Once and Future Church
Author: Loren B. Mead
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 113
Release: 1996-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566995256

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Mead presents five key challenges facing today’s churches-and how they represent opportunities for the evolutionary, transformative changes he believes must take place in congregations if the church is to remain a viable institution into the twenty-first century. Readers of Mead's Once and Future Church and Transforming Congregations for the Future will want to continue the journey begun with those books. A must for congregational leaders at all levels.


The Living Church

The Living Church
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2001-07
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Once and Future Jesus

The Once and Future Jesus
Author: Robert Walter Funk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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The Once and Future Jesus by John Shelby Spong (2000).


Advent

Advent
Author: Fleming Rutledge
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467451479

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Advent, says Fleming Rutledge, is not for the faint of heart. As the midnight of the Christian year, the season of Advent is rife with dark, gritty realities. In this book, with her trademark wit and wisdom, Rutledge explores Advent as a time of rich paradoxes, a season celebrating at once Christ’s incarnation and his second coming, and she masterfully unfolds the ethical and future-oriented significance of Advent for the church.