First Expressions: Innovation and the Mission of God

Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions. Presenting the lived practice of the church in mission through a longitudinal lens, and eschewing the rose-tinted approach, it considers the reality of emerging churches - their birth and death, their creativity and conflict, their dreams and despair. A picture of a church that is neither gathered and parish nor independent and networked emerges as the biographies of mission are brought into dialogue with a very ancient expression of mission, the birth of Philippians as a first expression of church in Europe..

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 12/31/2019
ISBN: 9780334058472
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d