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Title: Making Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations About God, Community, and Culture by Spencer Burke, Colleen Pepper, Stanley J. Grenz ISBN: 0-310-25499-X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reconstructing Church
Comment: This book is excellent. Spencer Burke and theooze.com makes me want to quit going to church and be Church. I guess this book could potentially make some people mad. I loved it. It is really a forward moving book. The world has changed. Spencer and his theooze-logians have given us new metaphors in which to engage the world. All this and you get to glimpse a little bit of Spencer Burke. He's a guy who has lived what he speaks of. He has struggled through modernity models of church life and he is reaching for something new, compelling and challenging. If you don't read this book...nevermind, just read the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Metaphors of our Lives and Culture
Comment: The books is a series of changing metaphors that are hitting culture and our church right now as seen through the eyes and life of Spencer Burke and many of the users of TheOoze.com's message boards. The result is this roadmap of change that is happening all around us told through story and rich visual metaphors.
The book is one of the best I have read this year and is one that as a pastor I have ordered for the rest of the churches leadership to read as a starting place to help them find their bearings in a world of changing values and worldviews.
The book is written from the viewpoint of a person who was in church leadership. It looks at many of the changes from that point of view. While the book can be read and understood by anyone, the perspective is that of a leader and shows that point of view. The cool part is that Spencer uses his own pastoral ministry as not a "do like me" but more of "learn from my mistakes and find your own path".
Some of the book has been covered by other authors (but hey, that are all writing on the same topic so some overlap is going to happen) but there were several sections in the book which generated some serious introspective thought and reflection. I have read the book three times now and each time brings out more I need to think through.
Unlike some books on the church by those inside it, Spencer show humility, grace, and a great sense of humor.
The book is not one that you will just read and put down but one of those books that will be re-read years from now. You may want a couple of copies to give away to friends as well (they probably won't want to give it back)
Rating: 5
Summary: Different metaphors to guide your church
Comment: Spencer Burke offers an insighful view into the metaphors which have been guiding the established evangelical church here in the West. Rather than just a stinging critique of the established church, Spencer offers different metaphors which will help guide the church in this postmodern age.
The contributions by many who post on theooze offer a variety of perspectives and paints an interesting picture of the church in today's age. Spencer brings these conversations from theooze in to each chapter showing this isn't just one man's vision for the church, this is what God is inspiring in the body of Christ.
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Title: Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives by Leonard Sweet, Andy Crouch, Brian D. McLaren, Erwin Raphael McManus, Michael Horton, Frederica Matthewes-Green ISBN: 0310254876 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myers ISBN: 0310255007 Publisher: Youth Specialties Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Emerging Church, The by Dan Kimball, Rick Warren, Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310245648 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church by Doug Pagitt ISBN: 0310256879 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Post-Evangelical by Dave Tomlinson, Dallas Willard ISBN: 0310253853 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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