Portable Faith
How to Take Your Church to the Community
Published on 1. March 2013
139 pages
978-1-4267-7126-2 (ISBN)
Description
Help church members to talk their faith into their everyday worlds. Portable Faith provides simple but effective ways to help people go public with their faith. Author Sarah Cunningham provides samples of activities and exercises that encourage people to meet others in the community-for example: begin by mapping out where your church members live; create a fellowship meal of ethnic foods that come from the church's surrounding community; start a reading group at work; or simply participate in a neighborhood watch. These activities are flexible and workable even with small budgets. They can be done by individuals, Bible study groups, Sunday morning classes, or by the entire church. By the end of the book, Sarah Cunningham hopes that readers will look at their church community with new eyes.
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Sarah Cunningham is the author of Dear Church: Letters From a Disillusioned Generation and the founder of the blog and web resource found at www.sarahcunningham.org. Sarah received her Masters in Administrative Leadership at Concordia University, taught at-risk urban high schoolers for almost nine years, and this year began full-time ministry in the Christian conference world. She is currently a member and occasional Sunday morning speaker at Rivertree, a Wesleyan church plant in Jackson, Michigan. Sarah lives with her husband, Chuck, their son, Justus, and their manic Jack Russell Terrier, Wrigley.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- An Invitation
- Acknowledgments
- Who This Book Is For
- How This Book Is Organized
- Chapter One: The Origins of a Portable Faith
- Chapter Two: Reflections on the Meaning of Church
- Chapter Three: Insights on Being the Portable Church
- #1 We Are Motivated by Frustration
- #2 We Remember Where God Is
- #3 We All Sign On
- #4 Our Leaders Buy In
- #5 We Take the Long View
- #6 We Build Lasting Relationships
- #7 We Experience Meaningful Growth
- #8 We Value All People in the Community
- #9 We Value What the Community Values
- #10 We Value Who the Community Values
- #11 We Prepare Carefully and Thoughtfully
- #12 We Are Persistent and Patient in Encouraging Change
- #13 We Give and Receive
- #14 We Obey Christ's Commandment
- Chapter Four: How to Train the Portable Church
- Exercises for the Portable Church
- Afterword
