Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

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