Hospitality And Community After Christendom
Ebook
Overview
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’ these to be more
effective in mission, personally and corporately, after
Christendom.
The book re-examines Jesus’ intentions, the wider biblical
material, and congregational practices of sharing Communion as well
as drawing on radical church history to demonstrate that despite
increasing marginalization, hospitality and community are essential
to the church’s nature, well-being and mission. It goes on to use
many practical examples, as well as leadership strategies to enable
congregations to restore hospitality and community to its necessary
place. It also provides an accessible theology as well as some
original liturgies to underpin Christian life as we move forward
after Christendom.