A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age
Practical ideas for connecting and building communities of service.

Bishop Andy Doyle understands that the church must change. Every day, he presides over parishes that are no longer vital, that have not adapted to the “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world of today — the world in which the church exists. The church still looks to hierarchies when it needs to build networks, and stays mired in arguments when it needs to find unity. With the experience of a bishop and the insight of a deep learner, Doyle points the way to the future with a vision for how we can learn, serve, and communicate with each other.

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A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age
Practical ideas for connecting and building communities of service.

Bishop Andy Doyle understands that the church must change. Every day, he presides over parishes that are no longer vital, that have not adapted to the “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world of today — the world in which the church exists. The church still looks to hierarchies when it needs to build networks, and stays mired in arguments when it needs to find unity. With the experience of a bishop and the insight of a deep learner, Doyle points the way to the future with a vision for how we can learn, serve, and communicate with each other.

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A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age

A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age

by C. Andrew Doyle
A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age

A Generous Community: Being the Church in a New Missionary Age

by C. Andrew Doyle

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Overview

Practical ideas for connecting and building communities of service.

Bishop Andy Doyle understands that the church must change. Every day, he presides over parishes that are no longer vital, that have not adapted to the “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world of today — the world in which the church exists. The church still looks to hierarchies when it needs to build networks, and stays mired in arguments when it needs to find unity. With the experience of a bishop and the insight of a deep learner, Doyle points the way to the future with a vision for how we can learn, serve, and communicate with each other.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780819232304
Publisher: Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/2015
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

C. Andrew Doyle, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, summarizes his autobiography in six words: "Met Jesus on pilgrimage; still walking." He is author of Vocātiō, Unabashedly Episcopalian, Orgullosamente Episcopal, A Generous Community, and The Jesus Heist. He lives in Houston, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword Brian D. McLaren vii

Preface xi

Introduction xiv

Chapter 1 Schrödinger's Church 1

Chapter 2 A New Missionary Age 9

Chapter 3 A Courageous Church 20

Chapter 4 Our Guiding Principles 30

Chapter 5 Autopoietic Communities 50

Chapter 6 A Renewed Mission Field 64

Chapter 7 Into the Cloud of Unknowing 80

Chapter 8 Communities of Service 87

Chapter 9 Generous Evangelism 101

Chapter 10 The Future of Stewardship 113

Chapter 11 Generous Community 125

Chapter 12 Self-Forming Creative Christians 137

Chapter 13 Making Change 151

Appendix: Lectio Divina 162

Notes 164

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