Hospitality and community after Christendom /

Hospitality and community after Christendom / Andrew Francis.

This book aims to show how nurturing hospitality in the "discipleship community" leads to growth. It seeks to re-examine the challenge, biblically and in radical Christian movements, presented by the pre-Christendom church in its patterns of hospitality and community to so 're-work�...

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Francis, Andrew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Keynes : Paternoster, 2012.
Series:After Christendom series.
Subjects:
Hospitality > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Dinners and dining > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Communities > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Mission of the church.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Hospitality and community: some ingredients
  • What does the Bible say?
  • Radical streams
  • Gathering at the table
  • Hospitality creates community
  • Part 2. Developing practices: the heat of the kitchen
  • Building the new community
  • What kind of 'community' do people want?
  • Developing the necessary leadership
  • Developing the 'building-blocks'
  • Conclusion.

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