The Out of Bounds Church?<\/a> Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change<\/em>.
\nIn a sense this is a different kind of book like that of Gibbs and Bolger; if theirs describes and analyzes the big picture, Taylor\u2019s explores thematically local communties. A big idea in the book is how the emerging movement is like a DJ: mixing elements of culture in order understand God and the gospel better. He contends the two \u2014 gospel and culture \u2014 are always together.
\nI\u2019ll tell you why I think this is a good book: it is theology emerging from praxis and praxis emerging from theological reflection, and both emerging in and out of local contexts, and each of these three items emerging out of serious engagement with culture and philosophy. Now if that doesn\u2019t get your dander up, nothing will \u2014 and that means you\u2019re probably not emerging.
\nAnd with all this emerging stuff emerging it means there aren\u2019t final answers for lots of things.
\nIt is hard to describe this book. Each chp is a postcard from different locations where a variety of communities of faith are forming and where a different theme of such churches is highlighted: culture, community, creativity, birthing, redemptive portals, pegging \u2026 well, this sort of thing that can\u2019t be buttoned down or zippered up into some category we\u2019ve already got in our head \u2026 and then we can apply and think we\u2019ve got this stuff figured out \u2026 which is exactly what Steve Taylor is doing here: exploring the development of communities of faith through differing and alternative images in order to shed light on what God is doing in this great world of ours.
\nHere\u2019s a question he asked that I think needs to be asked more intensely: the big issue facing emerging churches is how to integrate spiritual tourism with redemptive community \u2014 how to manage change and commitment at the same time.
\nIf you read this book, you just might find a deep perception of what emerging is all about when you take a global perspective.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This convoluted title to my post today means that I\u2019ve found a book that no one seems to talk much about but which is a very fine book \u2014 and when I was wandering around trying to find the best stuff on the emerging movement last year, I wish I had read this book. Steve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,1736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-emerging-movement"],"yoast_head":"\n
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