U.S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches: A Key to Reaching People in the 90's

By Tex Sample

Book Overview

In this book, Tex Sample provides the church with the information it needs to attract and keep members. Sample disucsses common lifestyles, including what he calls the cultural middle, cultural right, and cultural left. Sample explores the characteristics of people in each of these groups-- their worldview and their needs as church members. His goal is to help mainline churches learn about and respond to the diverse groups that make up our society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664250998
• ISBN13: 9780664250997
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Sample is so great I'm buying a copy after having read it.

Tex Sample's U.S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches is packed, page for page, with more information than I've ever read between two covers. I just read the copy I borrowed from a church library and found it so important that I'm buying another copy to keep for myself. In a world of churches where pastors are torn between alienating the stable parishioners who have built their parishes and drawing in newer people who don't like many of the old ways, Sample injects information we can use: ways to understand different groups and their needs, how to see the common ground between the cultural left, the middle, the right, how to appreciate the values cultivated by differing human needs, and, especially, ways to speak the truths we need to convey in a language that worshippers can hear. I loved the book, and when I get my own copy, I will highlight it until it's soggy with yellow ink!