The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier

by Loren B. Mead

Book Overview

Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566990505
• ISBN13: 9781566990509
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The future of the church

This book does a very good job of describing the background of today's church, and where it can go in the future. An excellent book to help understand the forces effecting the modern church.