The Agile Church

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9780819229786

<DIV><B>A groundbreaking and essential guide to opening up the concept of church and achieving spiritual renewal in the 21st century. </B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight J. Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking on organizational&#160;innovation to help churches flourish in a time of profound uncertainty and spiritual&#160;opportunity. In today&rsquo;s dynamic cultural environment, churches have to be more than faithful&mdash;they have to be agile. That means embracing processes of trial, failure, and adaptation as they&#160;form a Christian community with new neighbors. And that means a whole new way of&#160;being a church. How can it be realized? <I>The Agile Church</I> answers all the urgent and practical questions about meeting this cultural change.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> For&#160;clergy,&#160;congregational leaders, judicatory and denominational executives and staff, seminarians, and church members, &ldquo;Dwight&rsquo;s work on innovation is a rare gift for pastors and church leaders wanting something rooted deeply in scripture and Christian imagination, not just one more trend.&rdquo; <I>&mdash;</I>Alan Roxburgh, author of <I>The Missional Network</I>&#160;&#160;<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Study guide included.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;In an age when people are making choices about their faith, spirituality, and lives in unprecedented ways, our churches have the opportunity to be nimble, graceful, and creative.&#160;<I>The Agile&#160;Church</I>&#160;is an ideal guide for this journey.&rdquo; <I>&mdash;</I>Doug Pagitt, author of&#160;<I>Church in the Inventive Age</I></DIV>