The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix

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Zondervan, 2006 - Church renewal - 223 pages

Making the leap from yesterday to today If you're a church leader or committed member and you're tired of easy steps and facile formulas for church health, growth, and renewal, then this book points the way to thoughtful action and profound, liberating change. Discover the importance of redefining your mission, finding fresh ways to communicate the gospel, and engaging today's culture with understanding. Brian McLaren shows you thirteen practices for navigating towards a vibrant church that can reach out and serve the conviction and confidence in today's changing new world.

 

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
9
Maximize Discontinuity
23
Exercise Systems Thinking
45
Resurrect Theology as Art and Science
70
Learn a New Rhetoric
91
Abandon Structures
99
Save the Leaders
113
Subsume Missions in Mission
126
Look Ahead Farther Ahead
152
Enter the Postmodern World
166
Enter the Postmodern World
177
Enter the Postmodern World
197
Add to This List
211
Notes
217
About the Author
223
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix
Brian D. McLaren
Limited preview - 2009
The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix
Brian D. McLaren
No preview available - 2003
The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix
Brian D. McLaren
No preview available - 2000

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About the author (2006)

Brian D. McLaren is a prominent, controversial evangelical pastor. He was recognized as one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" in 2005, and is the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland. Born in 1956, Brian McLaren graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with BA and MA degrees in English. After several years of teaching English and consulting in higher education, he left academia in 1986 to become the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church, a nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region. Many of the books that McLaren has authored, including the "A New Kind of Christian" trilogy, deal with Christianity in the context of the cultural shift towards a new emerging church movement.

Bibliographic information

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TitleThe Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix
AuthorBrian D. McLaren
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherZondervan, 2006
ISBN0310252199, 9780310252191
Length223 pages
  
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