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Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

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Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus2014 Readers' Choice Award Winner 2014 Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're

  • 2014 Readers' Choice Award Winner
  • 2014 Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
  • Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the structures and practices of our churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency and dis-integrating isolationism. In the beginning, the church ate together, traveled together and shared in all facets of life. Centered as they were on Jesus, these seemingly mundane activities took on their own significance in the mission of God. InSlow Church, Chris Smith and John Pattison invite us to leave franchise faith behind and enter into the ecology, economy and ethics of the kingdom of God, where people know each other well and love one another as Christ loved the church.

    Binding Type: Paperback
    Publisher: IVP Books
    Published: 05/06/2014
    ISBN: 9780830841141
    Pages: 247
    Weight: 0.65lbs
    Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
    Award: Book of the Year - Winner

    Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014
    Christian Century 07/23/2014 pg. 39
    Christianity Today 09/01/2014 pg. 73
    Books & Culture 09/01/2014 pg. 22
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