Wide welcome [electronic resource] : how the unsettling presence of newcomers can save the church / Jessicah Krey Duckworth.

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Duckworth, Jessicah Krey [author.]

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TextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 2015); Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 128 pages))ISBN:

9781451426250
1451426259

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

230/.41 23

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BX8065.3 .D838 2013

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Contents:

Deliberate disestablishment -- Intersections of inquiry -- Facilitating newcomer participation -- Designing disestablishment -- The task of the Ecclesia Crucis.

Summary: In Wide Welcome, Jessicah Krey Duckworth presents the stark differences between the established congregation, which cares for current members and congregational identity, and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members. The disestablished congregations, she says, gains purpose and identity in the task of relating to the newcomer, and by doing so engages the world in powerful new ways. By intentionally extending the time of newcomer inquiry and allowing their questions, insights, and experiences to reverberate through the entire congregation both they and the church are changed. Duckworth intentionally lays out possible designs for newcomer welcome that are local and particular.

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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and index.

Deliberate disestablishment -- Intersections of inquiry -- Facilitating newcomer participation -- Designing disestablishment -- The task of the Ecclesia Crucis.

In Wide Welcome, Jessicah Krey Duckworth presents the stark differences between the established congregation, which cares for current members and congregational identity, and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members. The disestablished congregations, she says, gains purpose and identity in the task of relating to the newcomer, and by doing so engages the world in powerful new ways. By intentionally extending the time of newcomer inquiry and allowing their questions, insights, and experiences to reverberate through the entire congregation both they and the church are changed. Duckworth intentionally lays out possible designs for newcomer welcome that are local and particular.

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