Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by Smith, C. Christopher
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by Smith, C. Christopher

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

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Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by Smith, C. Christopher

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

$49.83
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by Smith, C. Christopher

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

$49.83
Author: C. Christopher Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Readers' Choice Award Winner

Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church?

The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the structures and practices of our churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency and dis-integrating isolationism.

In the beginning, the church ate together, traveled together and shared in all facets of life. Centered as they were on Jesus, these seemingly mundane activities took on their own significance in the mission of God. In Slow Church, Chris Smith and John Pattison invite us to leave franchise faith behind and enter into the ecology, economy and ethics of the kingdom of God, where people know each other well and love one another as Christ loved the church.

Author: C. Christopher Smith, John Pattison
Publisher: IVP Books
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 247
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780830841141


Award: Book of the Year - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014
Christian Century 07/23/2014 pg. 39
Christianity Today 09/01/2014 pg. 73
Books & Culture 09/01/2014 pg. 22

About the Author
Smith, C. Christopher: -

Chris Smith is editor of The Englewood Review of Books and a member of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis.

Pattison, John: -

John Pattison is managing editor of CONSPIRE magazine. Previously he served as deputy editor of the Burnside Writers Collective. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he is the coauthor of Besides the Bible.

Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan: -

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (M.Div., Duke Divinity School) is director of the School for Conversion in Durham, North Carolina, where he is a member of the Rutba House new monastic community. He is the author of To Baghdad and Beyond and coauthor of Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism. He is also the coeditor of School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism. Catch up with him at newmonasticism.org.

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