ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry - Softcover

Gibbs, Eddie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830822615 ISBN 13: 9780830822614

Publisher: IVP, 2000

Synopsis

• A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year

What will the church be next? CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity. While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known church strategist and practitioner, candidly analyzes these models while proposing nine areas in which the church will need to transform to be biblically true to its message and its mission to the world. With vigor and insight Gibbs shows how we can move

• from living in the past to engaging the present
• from being market driven to being mission oriented
• from following celebrities to encountering saints
• from holding dead orthodoxy to nurturing living faith
• from attracting a crowd to seeking the lost

Here is a book that brings together deep understanding of the quantum shifts taking place in our culture along with concrete suggestions for implementing a proactive mission strategy.

About this title

About the Author:

Eddie Gibbs is senior professor in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a senior adviser to the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts. His seminars for church leaders about leadership in the emerging church have been held in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Australia, South Africa and around the United States. Gibbs has also written several books, including Good News Is for Sharing, Ten Growing Churches, In Name Only, ChurchNext, LeadershipNext and (with Ryan Bolger) Emerging Churches.

Review:

"Every responsible pastor and church leader must think through the issues this book presents so helpfully. While only the Holy Spirit can keep the church's edge sharp and its salt tangy, I think he may be using Eddie Gibbs to help us keep alert to him. All of us charged with God-ordained mission need to prayerfully think and carefully answer the hour so well defined here." (Jack Hayford)

About this edition

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0830822615
• ISBN 13: 9780830822614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252