What Is the Church: Why It Still Matters

by David Fitch

Publisher:

Seminary Now

, 2023

Overview

What is the church? And why does it exist? These are essential questions for those who seek to follow Jesus in community.

David Fitch delves into the origins of the church, exploring the identity and calling of the body of Christ in scripture and church history. Learn about the Christian practices that shape the church and how our understandings of church might change in light of the life of the church through the centuries. At a time when the church in the US is losing credibility and cultural privilege, Fitch offers a model for thriving as God’s people in our own time and place.

Key Features

• Delves into the origins of the church.
• Explores the identity and calling of the body of Christ in scripture.
• Offers a model for thriving as God’s people in our own time and place.

Contents

• Lesson 1: The Current State of the Church
• Lesson 2: What Is the Church?
• Lesson 3: Practical Implications
• Lesson 4: The Practices
• Lesson 5: Why Church?
• Lesson 6: The Church’s Role in His Mission
• Lesson 7: The How Question
• Lesson 8: What Kind of Church Will We Be?

Product Details

• Title: What Is the Church: Why It Still Matters (video)
• Author: David Fitch
• Publisher: Seminary Now
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Video
• Subjects: Church leadership › Videos; Mission of the Church › Videos
• Resource ID: LLS:WHTSCHSTLLMTTRSVD
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-19T18:15:47Z

About David Fitch

David Fitch is the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community—an emerging church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He is the co-founder of Up/Rooted, an emergent cohort that gathers leaders and thinkers to engage issues of the emerging church and the post-modern context. Up/rooted now has chapters all over the Chicago area. He has been a speaker and presenter at “emerging church” gatherings, the Ekklesia Project, as well as academic and denominational gatherings on the issues of church, postmodernity and culture. He is the author of numerous articles on church, culture and theological ethics in journals as diverse as the Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Discernment, Pastoral Psychology and the Journal of Christian Education. He is the author of The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from American Business, Para-Church Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism and Other Modern Maladies (Baker Books, 2005).