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Who Is Our Church?
Imagining Congregational Identity
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2006
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After congregations have considered their history, added up all the statistics, and tried to be honest about their core values, the question still remains: "Who are we, really?" Author Janet Cawley offers a creative, engaging, and faithful way to answer just that question. Cawley demonstrates how to use a congregation’s knowledge of itself to construct a metaphor of the congregation as a person and then draw on theat metaphor to generate options for future mission. Cawley makes the case that congregations with a clear, well-articulated identity—those that know, accept, and love who they are—can be flexible and respond to change and new initiatives from the Holy Spirit with boldness because their basic sense of themselves is affirmed rather than threatened. They can make faithful and appropriate choices about what they should do. Congregations will find this intuitive, imaginative approach is useful, accurate, and lots of fun!
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-1-56699-321-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-56699-702-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
162
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction Which Church Is That? No access Pages 1 - 12
1 A Case of Mistaken Identity No access Pages 13 - 38
2 You Are the Body of Christ No access Pages 39 - 64
3 Who Are We Really? No access Pages 65 - 92
4 Exploring the Personal Identity Exercise No access Pages 93 - 120
5 What Does "Someone Like Us" Do? No access Pages 121 - 148
Epilogue No access Pages 149 - 154
Appendix A Workshop Outline No access Pages 155 - 156
Appendix B Sample Worksheet No access Pages 157 - 158
