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The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Churches often realize they need to change. But if they’re not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help. In this culmination of his well-received Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers a new paradigm for understanding the congregation in contemporary ministry. He articulates why it is so hard for congregations to change and encourages an...

to encounter persons through a death experience in Eros—it is the kind of dying that is costly grace. The change in Meredith’s congregation was ecstatic because it came from within the event of the disclosure of personhood. Her congregation couldn’t control this (resonance is always elusive), and if they tried to, they would exhaust themselves. They could only await the free disclosure of personhood by being present to one another, seeking a good life in prayer, peace, and storytelling. They could
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