RT Book
T1 Homebrew churches: reconceiving the church for tomorrow's children
A1 Henderson, Robert Thornton
LA English
PP Eugene, Oregon
PB Wipf & Stock Publishers
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1645262499
AB With the continual appearance of evidence that the emerging generation (the iGens) is not at all enamored of institutional churches, and is ignoring or forsaking them, it seemed a good time to take a step back, take a deep breath, and take a fresh look at what the church was intended to be and do in the New Testament document. The author spells out the landscape and reviews the profile of recent generations, and then sets about to set forth the church as the communal component of God's new creation in Christ. He engages in some challenges to the traditional understanding of the church, but sets forth a lively proposal in which every participant becomes interactive with the others, hence small fellowships. The younger iGens are into relationships, not institutions. This book portrays the church in relational terms, i.e., a church delivered from captivity to institutions and church professionals, hence a book that is controversial and perhaps a bit "cheeky" . . . but constructively challenging. The title is somewhat highjacked from the phenomenon known as the homebrew computer club, which is made up of six early computer scientists from whose creativity and relationship emerged much of the present computer and internet age. -- back cover
NO Includes bibliographical references
SN 9781532642272
SN 153264227X
SN 1532642288
SN 9781532642289
K1 Church renewal
K1 Generation Y : Religious life
K1 Generation Z
K1 Church work with youth
K1 Presbyterian Church