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Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures

The "emerging church" movement is perhaps the most significant church trend of our day. The emerging church offers and encourages a new way of doing and being the church. While it largely resonates with an eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old audience—the first fully postmodern generation—it is also gaining popularity with older Christians and encompasses a broad array of traditional and contemporary churches.Emerging Churches explores this movement and provides insight into its success.

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Filled with the latest research and interesting, anecdotal testimonies from those on the cutting edge of ministry, this book provides pastors, church leaders, and interested readers with an insightful glimpse into the thriving churches of today—and tomorrow.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 345 pages

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