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Title: The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myers ISBN: 0-310-25500-7 Publisher: Youth Specialties Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: close encounters of another kind
Comment: I don't know why I read this book. I have always been suspicious of books on intimacy. And this looked like another small group book. Small group books suck. This book is different. Myers helps us navigate how people connect to a community, be it in public space, social space, personal space or intimate space. Each space has different strengths. Myers doesn't say--intimate space is the best and other spaces are subordinate and introductory to it.Rather he holds up each space as valid and available for people to experience real connection to your community. It is nice to hear of someone talk about community without seeing the pyramid which declares the highest expression of community is the small group. There are simply other ways that people really belong.
This is helpful to me, having been a small group member and leader who brought certain expectations to the group (i.e. wanting to move to real group commitment and intamcy) but failed to see how people were enjoying social space and making significant connections without my poking prodding and manipulating them into giving something of themselves they didn't want to give to me or the group. If you understand the space that people want to connect in, you can adjust your approach to make connection meaningful for them without denigrating the way they really want to connect to your church.
Myers vision brings nuances to the concept of Christian community. It is reductionist to simply speak of small groups, or public worship. If people relate in 4 spaces, our responsibility as a church is create an environment which allows people to optimally connect in each of the four spaces. Bloody Brillant stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hope remains.
Comment: About ten years ago, I spent considerable time studying, and teaching, the concepts found in "Boundaries: When to say yes, when to say no, to take control of your life", by Cloud and Townsend. It contained principles that were difficult for me, and for our church, to absorb; although when it was understood and applied, it changed many lives, including my own.
Now Joe Myers has taken it a step further, as he explores the various ways that people choose to belong in different spheres of life. If a person has a healthy understanding of interpersonal boundaries, "The Search to Belong" will resonate in their soul. If they have yet to learn how to live with respect for their own boundaries, and those of others, this book will start them down that path.
Once we get past the worn out ideal of a cookie cutter society and church, we just might be ready to apply what this book presents to us. And once we do, i expect that the level of judgement we hold against each other within the larger church world will begin to fade.
Hope remains.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read if you have ANYTHING to do with community or SG
Comment: Before your church jumps into the next fad diet of small group curriculum, you must read The Search to Belong. In a day where the Sunday "event" drives our churches, and shrink-wrapped small group programs promise to deliver intimacy, Joe's book blows the doors off conventional thinking and offers a brilliant yet accessible approach to community.
Spencer Burke creator of www.TheOoze.com, author Making Sense of Church
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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: 031025499X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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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: 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: 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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Title: More Ready Than You Realize by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310239648 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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