Centered-set church : discipleship and community without judgmentalism /
Baker, Mark D. 1957-
Centered-set church : discipleship and community without judgmentalism / Mark D. Baker. - Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2021] - 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Drawing Lines and Erasing Lines -- Part I. Defining the Paradigms : Bounded, Fuzzy, and Centered Churches -- Responding to Questions About a Centered Church. Part II. Foundation of a Centered-set Church : The God of the Center -- Foundational Elements. Part III. Discipleship in Community : Centred Exhortation -- Centred Character: Qualities of Jesus -- Centred Intervention: Imagining Possibilities -- Practising Centered Intervention -- Journeying Together Toward the Center. Part IV. Centred Ministry : Firm Not Bounded -- Imagining Centered Alternatives -- The Richness of the Centered Way.
"Is there an alternative to the church's impulse to either obsess over boundaries or erase them completely? Building on the work of Paul Hiebert, Mark D. Baker provides a unique manual for understanding and applying the vision of a "centered" church, charting a new path for congregations and leaders to grow in authentic freedom and dynamic movement toward the true center: Jesus himself"--
9781514000946
2021034695
Church.
Judgment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Thought and thinking--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Prejudices.
BV600.3 / .B335 2021
262.001/7
Centered-set church : discipleship and community without judgmentalism / Mark D. Baker. - Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2021] - 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Drawing Lines and Erasing Lines -- Part I. Defining the Paradigms : Bounded, Fuzzy, and Centered Churches -- Responding to Questions About a Centered Church. Part II. Foundation of a Centered-set Church : The God of the Center -- Foundational Elements. Part III. Discipleship in Community : Centred Exhortation -- Centred Character: Qualities of Jesus -- Centred Intervention: Imagining Possibilities -- Practising Centered Intervention -- Journeying Together Toward the Center. Part IV. Centred Ministry : Firm Not Bounded -- Imagining Centered Alternatives -- The Richness of the Centered Way.
"Is there an alternative to the church's impulse to either obsess over boundaries or erase them completely? Building on the work of Paul Hiebert, Mark D. Baker provides a unique manual for understanding and applying the vision of a "centered" church, charting a new path for congregations and leaders to grow in authentic freedom and dynamic movement toward the true center: Jesus himself"--
9781514000946
2021034695
Church.
Judgment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Thought and thinking--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Prejudices.
BV600.3 / .B335 2021
262.001/7