Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens

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John Wiley & Sons, 8 sept. 2005 - 272 pagini
Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is that attendance at church on Sundays does not necessarily transform lives; God's presence in our hearts is what changes us. Leaders and laypeople everywhere are realizing that they need new and more powerful ways to help them spread God's Word. According to international church starter and pastor Neil Cole, if we want to connect with young people and those who are not coming to church, we must go where people congregate. Cole shows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed - restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms,and neighborhoods. Organic Church offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it.

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Ride Out with Me
3
Awakening to a New Kind of Church
17
The Zombie Bride Lives
31
CONTENTS
43
A Dangerous Question
47
The Organic Nature
59
An Enchanted Kingdom with Magic Seeds
83
We All Began as Zygotes
91
and How It Spreads
141
Me and Osama Are Close
159
The HowTo of Spreading the Epidemic
171
The Call to Organic Church
193
Tales That Really Mattered
207
Notes
219
Acknowledgments
225
Scriptural Index
235

From the Microscope
107
Epidemic Expansion Starts in the Genes
123

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NEIL COLE is a church starter and pastor, and founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, which has helped start over seven hundred churches in thirty-two states and twenty-three nations in six years. He is an international speaker and the author of Cultivating a Life for God.

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