TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duckworth,Jessicah Krey
TI  - Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church 
T2  - Prisms
SN  - 9781451426250
AV  - BX8065.3 .D838 2013
U1  - 230/.41 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Christian converts
KW  - Lutheran Church
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Deliberate disestablishment -- Intersections of inquiry -- Facilitating newcomer participation -- Designing disestablishment -- The task of the Ecclesia Crucis
N2  - 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
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ER  -