The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age is the title of the book for the Diocese of Iowa's 2015 Lenten book study. The author, Dwight Zscheile, will be with us April 25 at Baptismal Living Day leading us in conversations about becoming agile, innovative churches focused on sharing God’s Good News in our places. Each chapter in the book will be the topic of this blog, beginning February 24 and ending April 21, just four days before we greet Dwight at Baptismal Living Day in Des Moines.
We hope you will visit the weekly blog posts (we will skip Holy Week and Easter Week) while you read the book this Lent.
From The Agile Church: “This work of translating Christian faith and practice into new cultural vernaculars requires deep listening to God, to the tradition, and to neighbors. It requires prayer, patience, discernment, creativity, vulnerability, and risk. It pushes the church deeper into the central narratives of its faith. … It calls for new imagination (ways of seeing the world), habits, and practices. It is about learning and growing – in other words, innovation.”
“I invite you on a journey of exploration as we approach agility and innovation in light of the church’s establishment legacy and the Spirit’s movement.”
CLICK HERE to view the book on Amazon.com, available in new and used paperback as well as Kindle editions.
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