TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duckworth,Jessicah Krey
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Wide welcome: how the unsettling presence of newcomers can save the church 
SN  - 9781451426250
AV  - BX8065.3 .D838 2013
U1  - 230/.41 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Christian converts
KW  - Lutheran Church
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781451426250/
ER  -