Practitioners: Voices Within the Emerging Church

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 253 pages
• Published by: Regal Books August 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0830738088
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0830738083
• Book Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 6.4 ounces

Product Review
"Like many good books, this one will challenge and provoke readers; like all good books, it will producefruitful dialogue." -- Tony Jones, author of The Sacred Way, National Coordinator of Emergent

"Practitioners: Voices Within the Emerging Church [talks] about what creative, missional churches and leaders are, in fact, doing." -- Kara Powell, Ph.D., executive director, Center for Youth and Family Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary

"The best practitioners create dialogue-rich communities where collective consideration leads to collective insight. This book captures that practice on paper." -- Dr. Dave Fleming, author of Leadership Wisdom from Unlikely Voices and organizational midwife (www.davefleming.org)

"You'll hear some [creative] voices in these pages - and you'll be encouraged, as I was." -- Brian McLaren, pastor (crcc.org), author (anewkindofchristian.com)

Product Description
"Practitioners: Voices Within the Emerging Church" features challenging essays that tackle "how we do church" from a number of innovative thinkers and practitioners, including Doug Pagitt, Dan Kimball, Pete Greig, David Ruis, Craig Detweiler, Spencer Burke, Joyce Heron, Tim Garrety and Anna Pelky. Foreword by Erwin McManus.

Reader Reviews
The Emergent Movement is an addiction to some, and the undermining of Christianity to others. In this artistic collection of various artists, pastors, authors - they give dialogue to the various aspects of living their understanding of the movment. What I enjoyed most about this book, is the wrestling with the question - what does it mean, what does it look like, how can WE be the Body of Christ in this world? To me, that is a great question that is often trumped by - How much money do we need? How can we grow bigger, faster? How can we maximize the one hour we get with our people? For those who are "all in" - this will provide some priceless ideas and conversations that will help shape and challenge whatever is going through your mind regarding "being the Church." For those of you who are skeptical - read it, because, it seems their arguments are moving away from the anti-modern church and instead asking the question - how can the Church return to being Missional verses a weekly gathering. My only complaint is - for those who are NOT at all artistic, there are parts of this book that may appear "hokey." In our world - that is still more modern than post-modern (at least in Toledo, OH) there are many who just want to read and learn - drawing and journaling in a book is a distracting. I enjoy the drawings - but the whole thing felt too fabricated and the questions were not the ones I wanted to wrestle with... Overall, great and interesting read. Not too over the top with "BE LIKE US" or "HATE MODERN" - but a genuine interest in wrestling with what it means to be missional!