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Congregations today exist in an in-between, or liminal, time. The
customary answers about what it means to be and do church and
strategies for renewal based on those answers no longer work. But
there is no certainty about the new answers. It is a time of
searching—of letting go of the old and experimenting with the
new. This means facing the reality of death, which may come as
institutions die or as established ways are abandoned. This book
addresses this reality while maintaining a constant focus on the
Christian promise of resurrection. It offers three images that
recognize the differing contexts of congregations and help them
shape their future as they seek to discern God’s work in their
midst. Congregations shaped by each of the three images
(remembering, letting go, and resurrecting) have the potential to
faithfully engage in God’s work in their setting. For each of the
three there are suggestions for helping a congregation move toward
an even more faithful expression of the image. The book includes
Bible studies and other resources that congregations will find
helpful in this process. Some congregations may continue in
traditional ways, while others seek a new way of being church. But
all can join in God’s work in their time and place with a new and
deeper understanding of the ministry that is theirs. This book
helps them do that. Because a different kind of leadership is
needed the book offers an approach to leadership that is grounded
in a spiritual process of inward reflection and outward
involvement.
Congregations today exist in an in-between, or liminal, time. The
customary answers about what it means to be and do church and
strategies for renewal based on those answers no longer work. But
there is no certainty about the new answers. It is a time of
searching—of letting go of the old and experimenting with the
new. This means facing the reality of death, which may come as
institutions die or as established ways are abandoned. This book
addresses this reality while maintaining a constant focus on the
Christian promise of resurrection. It offers three images that
recognize the differing contexts of congregations and help them
shape their future as they seek to discern God’s work in their
midst. Congregations shaped by each of the three images
(remembering, letting go, and resurrecting) have the potential to
faithfully engage in God’s work in their setting. For each of the
three there are suggestions for helping a congregation move toward
an even more faithful expression of the image. The book includes
Bible studies and other resources that congregations will find
helpful in this process. Some congregations may continue in
traditional ways, while others seek a new way of being church. But
all can join in God’s work in their time and place with a new and
deeper understanding of the ministry that is theirs. This book
helps them do that. Because a different kind of leadership is
needed the book offers an approach to leadership that is grounded
in a spiritual process of inward reflection and outward
involvement.
Anyone concerned for the life and ministry of the church, who has a
sense that things are not what they might be, and who is seeking a
new understanding of congregational life and mission will find hope
and help in the pages of this book. Jeff Jones takes his readers on
a journey, providing a guidebook that maps out the factors facing
congregations in this postmodern, post-Christendom world. With the
heart of a pastor, Jones shows congregational leaders how to
embrace the best parts of their church's rich heritage and reclaim
it for a new day.
A complete yet easy to follow programming book for the C beginner
as well as a great reference book for the more experienced
programmer. Unlike many other programming language books, C
Simplified was developed specifically for use in the classroom and
has been critiqued by thousands of students over a dozen years
before finally being made available to the general public. It
encompasses all the major features of C including the History of C;
the Standard Library; Identifiers; Arithmetic, Compound,
Relational, Logical, and Bitwise Operators; Data Types; Pointers;
Flow Control statements; Arrays and Strings; Input and Output;
Functions; the C Preprocessor; Structures, Unions and Enumeration
types; and Linked List data structures In addition to its
straightforward style of explanation, this book contains many
examples along with numerous exercises, with answers, to help
assure a thorough understanding of how C functions. C Simplified is
one book that truly lives up to its name.
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