First Expressions

Innovation and the Mission of God

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions.Presenting the lived practice of the church in mission through a longitudinal lens, and eschewing the rose-tinted approach, it considers the reality of emerging churches - their birth and death, their creativity and conflict, their dreams and despair. A picture of a church that is neither gathered and parish nor independent and networked emerges as the biographies of mission are brought into dialogue with a very ancient expression of mission, the birth of Philippians as a first expression of church in Europe..

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-31
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagSCM Press
ISBN9780334058472

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Acknowledgements ixPart 1 Introducing first expressions1 Definitions and a roadmap 32 Birthing first expressions: Empirical and ecclesiological 203 Body-ing forth in innovation 33Part 2 First expressions 11 years on4 Tried 515 Tried and died 73Part 3 Fresh Expressions6 An apostle of Fresh Expressions 977 Birthing Fresh Expressions as an organizational innovation 1098 Moves in mission 132Part 4 Becoming in ecclesial innovation9 One in authenticity 14910 Becoming apostolic in ambient witness 16611 Becoming holy in making 18812 Becoming catholic in sacrament and structure 20713 Coda: A Theologic of first expressions 225Bibliography 233Index of Names and Subjects 245

"First Expressions provides a rich practical theology of how God could be bringing a new ecclesiology for a secular age to birth through the witness of the communities who pioneered new ecclesial communities. Taylor has done a great service to future mission by paying close attention to what has been embodied in the past at the fringes and how this needs to transform the centre of thinking and practice in the future."