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Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
in Ministry and Pastoral Care Books
Neil Cole, Leonard I. Sweet
Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who arent being reached, who dont want to come to church. And the truth is that attendance at church on Sundays does not necessarily transform lives; Gods presence in our hearts is what changes us. Leaders and laypeople everywhere are realizing that they need new and more powerful ways to help them spread Gods Word. According to international church starter and pastor Neil Cole, if we want to connect with young people and those who are not coming to church, we must go where people congregate. Cole shows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed - restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms,and neighborhoods. Organic Church offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it.
Table Contents
Part One: Roots of the Organic Church.
1. Ride Out with Me!
2. Awakening to a New Kind of Church.
3. The Zombie Bride Lives!
4. A Dangerous Question.
Part Two: The Organic Nature of the Kingdom of God.
5. Kingdom 101: You Reap What You Sow . . . and You Eat What You Reap.
6. An Enchanted Kingdom with Magic Seeds, Fast-Growing Trees, and a Beautiful Bride to Rescue.
7. We All Began as Zygotes.
Part Three: From the Microscope to the Telescope.
8. Mapping the DNA of Christ’s Body.
9. Epidemic Expansion Starts in the Genes.
Part Four: The Epidemic Kingdom and How It Spreads.
10. It Takes Guts to Care for People.
11. Me and Osama Are Close.
12. The How-To of Spreading the Epidemic.
Part Five: The Call to Organic Church.
13. Falling with Style.
14. Tales That Really Mattered.
Author:
Neil Cole is a church starter and pastor, and founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, which has helped start over seven hundred churches in thirty-two states and twenty-three nations in six years. He is an international speaker and the author of Cultivating a Life for God.
Reviews
"...for Christians who are asking deep questions." (Church Times, Friday 21st December 2007)
While this book is easy to read, it's hard to shake. It sticks to your brain. For those of us involved in the conversation about what the church will look like as we head into the early years of this 21st century, Cole injects his ideas, his practices, his emerging ways. I like this book because it's written by a practitioner, not a theoretician; by a pastor, not a theologian, even though Cole seems to be a highly missional, theologically informed pastor. The book's ideas are dressed in city street clothes, not suburban suits.
As I read Cole's book, I couldn't escape the thought at certain places, "What if Cole is really onto something here?"
I like *Organic Church* for these reasons:
1. It begins with Jesus and what he dreamed and worked for concerning church. Jesus trumps the church. Christology precedes and forms ecclesiology.
2. It takes the Gospels seriously as sources for church-planting strategies. The life, stories, and ways of Jesus should heavily influence those of us who want to define, discover, discern (whatever) the reality of "church."
John Frye(Grand Rapids, MI USA
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