Fresh Expressions Of The Rural Church
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Cultivate “fresh expressions of church” in your rural congregation with Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church by Tyler Kleeberger and Michael Beck.
Congregations became the hub of rural lifefor a time. The place where people gathered not only on Sundays to hear a sermon but to help each other work the land, break bread, and form deep relationships. The rural church was the place where they found a community that could sustain them through the joys and struggles of life with the land. In many ways, a rural church expressed the essence of church in general: To be the guiding hand into the life of a place.
After disruptions from agriculture, industrialization, and technology, many rural churches (like the people around them) feel forgotten. Has urbanization made life outside the urban sprawl irrelevant? Can rural congregations struggling to survive find hope and new life? If so, can healthy rural churches catalyze a different future for the world?
Tyler Kleebergerand Michael Beck think so. They have served rural congregations for over a decade, Michael in North Central Florida and Tyler in Northwest Ohio. They have discovered the potential and beauty of life and faith in the rural setting. The ageing congregations they serve(in declining rural communities) found ways to cultivate “fresh expressions of church” with people who call rural simply “home”. They serve contexts in the often forgotten, wild places of our contemporary world.
This book includes breakthrough stories from the diversity of rural contexts across the US. It lays out a fresh theology for rural life and offers principles for harnessing the potential of what some consider the forgotten spaces.
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SKU (ISBN): 9781791025793
ISBN10: 179102579X
Michael Beck | Tyler Kleeberger
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: September 2022
Publisher: Abingdon Press
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