Liquid church / Pete Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Pete, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church.

Physical Description:

112 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers ; Carlisle, Cumbria : Paternoster Press, 2002.

Summary:

The church must be like water -- flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how the church can embrace the liquid nature of culture rather than just scrambling to keep afloat while sailing over it. Ward urges us to move away from the traditional notion of church as a gathering of people meeting in one place at one time to the dynamic notion of church as a series of relationships and communications. In the Liquid Church, membership is determined by participation and involvement. Liquid Church is continually on the move, flowing in response to the Spirit and the gospel of Jesus, the imagination and creativity of its leaders, and the choices and experiences of its worshippers. In this provocative, insightful, and challenging book, Pete Ward presents his vision of a Liquid Church that addresses the needs of the isolated consumer-Christian by providing connection and community, located in common cause and similar desire for God.

Contents:

1. Solid and liquid modernity and the church

2. The mutations of solid church : heritage, refuge, and nostalgia

3. Liquid in Christ

4. Network and flow in the liquid church

5. The liquid dance of God

6. Shaping the liquid church

7. Regulating the flow, part 1 : the Word of God

8. Desire for God

9. Regulating the flow, part 2 : the spirit and grace

10. Inside the liquid church.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-112).

ISBN:

1565636805

184227161X

OCLC:

50843998