C. Christopher Smith
Auteur van Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
Werken van C. Christopher Smith
Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish (2016) 110 exemplaren
How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (2019) 56 exemplaren
Growing Deeper in our Church Communities: 50 ideas for Connection in a Disconnected Age (2010) 24 exemplaren
The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities (2012) 6 exemplaren
Introductory Bibliography of the New Monasticism (Resources for a New Monasticism Series #1) (Resources for a New… (2007) 2 exemplaren
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The positive aspects of this book could be summed up by stating that it's good to invest time in your surrounding community and develop relationships with people (which takes time!). It's written by "non-professionals," and this shows in how much of their book was simply them quoting other people. I liked a lot of these quotes, but I don't know that the book itself was super necessary...
The authors have some ideas that I just can't get behind. For example, they believe churches can/should "generate income" beyond the offering plate (through coffee shops, bookstores, etc. in church buildings), and I strongly believe that income-generation is not the business of the church!
They subscribe to Walter Brueggeman's interpretation of the famine experienced in Egypt, which Joseph helped prepare for. They state that Pharaoh was being greedy and selfish by requiring people to pay for the stores of grain with their livestock, land, etc., and that Pharaoh was operating from a "scarcity mentality." In reality, this kind of distribution was all Joseph's idea and happened because God was preserving His people through this.
They also believe that the evolutionary theory is fact, apparently, as they briefly mention that the world is billions of years old.
The authors were very passionate about their subject, but unfortunately, passion doesn't equal excellence in execution. I thought the parallels of "slow church" to the "slow food" movement was taken too far, and they had to stretch a bit to make them fit.… (meer)