Church: A Generous Community Amplified for the Future, by C. Andrew Doyle
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Church casts a vision of the Church with clarity and hope, life-giving principles that will guide the future Church, a significant navigational tool for anyone who stand at the helm of a Christian community. In a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, Church is one of the most hopeful, realistic, enthusiastic, positive, informed, and empowering assessments to date of where we are today as Christians and as the Episcopal Church empowering assessments of where we are today as Christians and as the Episcopal Church and how we are step into our future.
Church: A Generous Community Amplified for the Future, by C. Andrew Doyle- Amazon Sales Rank: #615820 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.22" w x 5.50" l, 1.37 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 540 pages
Review CHURCH is, beyond any doubt, one of the most hopeful, realistic, enthusiastic, positive, informed, and empowering assessments I have seen to date of where we are today as Christians and as the Episcopal Church. As such, it constitutes a very emphatic, very episcopal call to all of us - lay and clergy - to get up off our anxieties and preconceptions and get about our appointed work in God's economy, both current and forthcoming. Pray God we hear him well and effectually. Phyllis TickleAndrew Doyle dearly loves his church and longs for it to have a vibrant future. His book is a wide-ranging, well-informed, and above all loving and enthusiastic invitation for Episcopalian Christians to walk confidently into God's future. Drawing upon his extensive church experience, as well as his vast reading, Doyle gives us an informed, critical but always hopeful, positive push forward. He shows the church how to be more faithful and vital. Will Willimon, United Methodist Bishop, retired, Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity SchoolWe are, Bishop Doyle reminds us, a living body and not a set of buildings or bureaucracies. And so his compelling new book, CHURCH, declares that "the work before our church is not a problem to be fixed" in language as direct and loving as that of St. Paul, Andy Doyle calls us to be Church outside the building, among our neighbors, in relationships that are "smaller, lighter, more handmade and collaborative"-- and there to find real life in Christ. Sara Miles Author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and City of God: Faith in the Streets. We have enough literature on the crisis in the church. We do not need more of it. This book is wholly different. It really is about the future church by a churchman who has read and thought and prayed and imagined into a scary, hope-filled future. I have read every page, I was led boldly into a new world of connectedness that rings true both to fact and to experience. It is like a daring leap into a dynamism rendered theologically and ecclesially. In its imaginative probes this book rings true with both deep hope and hard work yet to come.Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological SeminaryPeople often ask me why I am hopeful about the future of mainline Protestantism. It's because of leaders like Bishop Andy Doyle. His new book about the future of the church inspires realism and hope. It's full of specific choices mainline churches (and especially the Episcopal Church) can make, but equally powerful, it converts readers to an open, creative, and hopeful posture toward the church of the future. And in my opinion, Chapter 24 alone is worth twice the price of the book. Brian McLaren, Author of A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIANITY
From the Author Are you a thought leader in the Episcopal Church? Clergy, pastor, deacon, theologian, missionary, or lay leader working on God's mission of reconciliation? Are you trying to cast a vision for the future and need support? This book is for you. My hope is that this text will offer leaven to feed the Church's imagination. It is an offering to God and the Church. It is an offering to all those who have lost hope in their church over the last two decades. Most of all, it is an offering for those who deeply desire to be part of what God is doing in the world around us. It is you, the imaginative lover of Jesus, passionate missionary, and worldly pilgrim, whom I hope to engage in a discussion about the future. Read CHURCH (from VTS Press) then gather a small group of friends together and read GENEROUS COMMUNITY (from Church Publishing). Together these two books will help create a cadre of leaders that can help transform your congregation, lead you to plant new missional communities, help you transform the community and context in which you find yourself.
From the Inside Flap This book has the courage to ask gnawing questions about the future church in a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. While constructively dissecting the Episcopal Church, his resulting insight will be disruptively useful for everyone seeking faith in the future. Andrew Doyle is making the future. - Bob Johansen, distinguished fellow, Institute for the Future and author of Leaders Make the Future and The Reciprocity Advantage
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. This is a wonderful book and deserves to be read by all By John Newton This is a wonderful book and deserves to be read by all! Bishop Doyle seamlessly weaves together the past, present and future church and in reading I was able to see how the present church has emerged from church history. I also love that Doyle draws from a vast array of academic disciplines – theology, science, sociology, psychology, and even economics. That’s no small feat! It adds a real meatiness to the book. I deeply appreciate its rootedness in systems thinking as well. We are so used to wearing our “organization as machine” lens we forget that it is precisely that: a lens, and not a particularly useful lens either. In this book Doyle’s passion comes through on every page. He yearns for God’s people to self-learn and self-organize, to stop controlling and to trust God. He says that we who walk in the garden with God can bring something new into being. He says that the very thing we so often fear – chaos – is not something to control and manage but rather the very stuff out of which God longs to create a new and wonderful order. After reading, I was left with the impression that the Episcopal Church’s goal is not merely to survive the VUCA world, but rather to thrive in the VUCA world – to become a better, stronger, and more adaptive organization as a result of all the VUCA – ness that is here to stay. This is an important book for the church and is worthy of being read, marked and inwardly digested by all!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Refreshing Look at the Church By Robert L. Wells Andy,I just finished reading your book, Church. I loved it! I liked your thoughts on the future church being seen as a church is Diaspora in a Post-Modern, Post Enlightenment Age. I enjoyed walking with you through the history of the Church looking at formation, orders, and structure among other things. Your thoughts on evangelism were exciting. I appreciated your weaving in your reading in the new physics and how it is impacting our thinking and living. Thanks for a great contribution to the conversations going on in and out of the Church. As a digital-migrant, I felt lost in all that you talked about with regard to the world of communication today. I am inspired and refreshed from reading your book. I ordered a copy to be sent to my son, Steve, Pastor at South Main Baptist Church of Houston.The Rev. Bob Wells, Episcopal priest, retired.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Finally, a book about the Church by someone "actually in the Arena" By David William Peters The argument for change in 'Church' does not seem to come from any fear of the future, but from a profound love for the young people that will own it. These young people are the "digital natives" that are, even now, passing through the waters of our baptismal fonts (or not). While I am a "digital migrant," I recognized many of my own traits in Doyle's descriptions of today's cultural landscape. For instance, I've spent some of my ministry bi-vocationally, (373) and I'm currently involved in a crowd-funded film project (197). If you wonder, like I often do, what bishops are thinking, buy this book. You will see in it the thought processes of a leader that IS actively leading a large diocese Right Now. Most books about church and change come from consultants that USED to work in a church. Bishop Doyle's ideas are rooted in his arguments from history and current scientific and philosophical thought. This book is deep, and I know it will take me considerable time to process what it means for me in my context as a priest in the Church. The book is honest and candid about the challenges involved in Church leadership. The Epilogue alone models how books can function as conversation generators. I found that material to be unexpectedly revelatory. It is inspirational and encouraging, pointing always to the work of the Holy Spirit that moves us, all of us, into the mission of God.
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