TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothery,Francis
TI  - Missional impossible!: the death of institutional Christianity and the rebirth of G-d 
SN  - 9781630872762
AV  - BV625 .R684 2013eb
U1  - 280/.40973090511 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Resource Pubns
KW  - Communities
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church membership
KW  - Church renewal
KW  - Church growth
KW  - Église
KW  - Appartenance
KW  - Renouveau de l'Église
KW  - Expansion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Denominations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224)
N2  - Mainline Christianity in the West is dying. Addiction to hierarchical and bureaucratic power is killing it. A management-god and a mission-god have usurped the Way of Christ. In the midst of decline the missional movement is attempting to reboot the church. Its goal is to remake a New Christian West through mission, leadership, mapping, and planning. Yet it is trapped in the language and methods of modernity. Its final solution is a polarizing vision of cultural domination by one social group, the Christians. The Way of Life and Truth has been forgotten. Christ is not a conquering King, a written Word, or an absolute Idea, but a divine Human Being. Social wholeness can only be realized through a rediscovery of Conversation, Reconciliation, and Empowerment. These reflect Christ's practices of eternal dialogue and reciprocal giving in small communities. Through this mutual Way of Life people of all faiths (and none) can discover deep within themselves Our Un/Known G-d. A gentle voice is whispering in the heart of all humanity, "I am ... the Way."
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