The Missionary Congregation, Leadership, and Liminality (Christian Mission & Modern Culture) - Softcover

Roxburgh, Alan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563381907 ISBN 13: 9781563381904

Publisher: Trinity Press International, 1997

Synopsis

The urgent question for Christian mission in North America today has to do with churches and congregations and the crisis of their identity in the culture of modernity. Alan Roxburgh argues that the crisis is not merely one of internal identity or structures but involves the massive changes that have transformed modernity, including the shifting of the church from the center of culture to the margins.Chapter 1 reviews the marginalization of the churches and their self-under-standing of that context; chapter 2 examines Victor Turner’s work on liminality (a term describing the transition process that accompanies a change of state or social position), relating it to the church’s experience of marginalization; chapter 3 outlines leadership characteristics required in today’s missionary congregations.Alan J. Roxburgh is Senior Pastor of West Vancouver Baptist Church in British Columbia, an adjunct faculty member of Regent College in Vancouver, and author of the recently published Reaching a New Generation.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan J. Roxburgh is Senior Pastor of West Vancouver Baptist Church in British Columbia, an adjunct faculty member of Regent College in Vancouver, and author of the recently published Reaching a New Generation.

Review:

The Missionary Congregation/A Spacious Heart: "These two stimulating books in a new series on Christian Mission and Modern Culture help local congregational leaders examine modern/post-modern culture from a missional point of view; develop the theological agenda the church must address in order to recover its own integrity; and test fresh ideas related to the nature and mission of the Church as it engages people today. The volumes noted above are but two in a rich buffet. Some of our era’s most seminal missiologists are engaged in writing this series (now numbering close to ten 70-page studies—each one providing a concentrated, mind-expanding exercise for creative thinkers." —Congregations (Congregations: The Alban Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Trinity Press International
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1563381907
• ISBN 13: 9781563381904
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 71