Description
Book SynopsisA leading practical theologian articulates why congregations feel pressured by the speed of change in modern life and encourages an approach that doesn't fall into the negative traps of our secular age.
Table of ContentsContents
Part 1: Depressed Congregations
1. The Church and the Depressing Speed of Change
2. Speeding to the Good Life, Crashing into Guilt: Why 1.6 Billion Dollars Isn't as Good as You Think
3. Fullness as Busyness: Why Busy Churches Attract and Then Lose Busy People
4. The Strip Show: When Sacred Time Is No Longer the Time We Keep
Part 2: Examining Congregational Despondency; Our Issue Is Time
5. When Time Isn't What It Used to Be: What's Speeding Up Time?
6. When Brains Explode
Dimension One: Technological Acceleration
7. Minding the Time: Why the Church Feels Socially Behind
Dimension Two: Acceleration of Social Life (Part One)
8. Why
The Office Can't Be Rebooted: The Decay Rate of Social Change
Dimension Two: Acceleration of Social Life (Part Two)
9. When Sex and Work Are in a Fast Present: The Church and the Decay Rate of Our Social Structures
Dimension Two: Acceleration of Social Life (Part Three)
10. Why Email Sucks, and Social Media Even More: Reach and Acceleration
Dimension Three: Acceleration of the Pace of Life (Part One)
11. Reach and the Seculars
Dimension Three: Acceleration of the Pace of Life (Part Two)
Part 3: Moving from Relevance to Resonance
12. Time-Famine and Resource Obsession: Another Step into Alienation
13. Why the Slow Church Can't Work: Stablization, Alienation, and Loss of the Congregational Will to Be
14. Alienation's Other: Resonance
15. When Bonhoeffer Time Travels: Resonance as Carrying the Child
16. To Become a Child: Matthew 18 and Congregation That Is Carried
17. Ending with a Little Erotic Ecstasy
Index
