The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series) - Softcover

Mead, Loren B.

 
9781566990509: The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1566990505 ISBN 13: 9781566990509
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the laypersons workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier

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About the Author

Loren B. Mead is president emeritus of the Alban Institute, which he founded in 1974. Since his retirement in 1993, he has continued to consult with congregations, lecture, and write. He has written many books, including A Change of Pastors: ...And How It Affects Change in the Congregation (2005), More Than Numbers: The Ways Churches Grow, Financial Meltdown in the Mainline?, and Transforming Congregations for the Future.

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1566990505
ISBN 13 
9781566990509
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
102

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