
Carol Howard Merritt, a blogger I always read with pleasure, pastor at Western Presbyterian Church, author of Reframing Hope and Tribal Church and cohost of God Complex Radio, has just published on her blog Tribal Church, hosted by The Christian Century, a new article, titled ‘Ten Church Models for A New Generation’.
She starts from the observation that the way mainline Protestants ‘do’ church these days seems to be more and more inadequate to the needs and expectations of people. That is why many believers tend to migrate to other ways of being church.
She explores in this post ten posssible (and quite unequal) ways of being church in postmodern times (whatever that means). Some seem ecclesiologically quite unlikely, while others sound creative and surprising. Here they are:
1) Large churches plant new communities.
2) Multi-cultural congregations.
3) Neo-monastic communities. Continue reading “Carol Howard Merritt – Ten Church Models for A New Generation”
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