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Wide Welcome : How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church / Jessicah Krey Duckworth.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: PrismsPublisher: Lanham : Fortress Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (144 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781451426250
  • 1451426259
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 230/.41 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8065.3 .D838 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Deliberate disestablishment -- Intersections of inquiry -- Facilitating newcomer participation -- Designing disestablishment -- The task of the Ecclesia Crucis.
Summary: While most churches offer "new member classes" and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it. This book presents the stark differences between the established congregation, which cares for current members and congregational identity, and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Course reserves
E-resource ULS E-Resources ULS E-resource Project Muse Phl. and Rel. 2013 BX8065.3 .D838 2013 Available ocn845258965

ULS: Missional Evangelism: Creativity in Context ULS: Spring 2025

Print version record.

While most churches offer "new member classes" and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it. This book presents the stark differences between the established congregation, which cares for current members and congregational identity, and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members.

Deliberate disestablishment -- Intersections of inquiry -- Facilitating newcomer participation -- Designing disestablishment -- The task of the Ecclesia Crucis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Project MUSE Project Muse 2013 Philosophy and Religion Collection

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