发表于2024-09-07
Kicking Habits 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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You are about to embark on an incredible journey filled with metaphors
and images that create an exciting experience in authentic Christianity.
Kicking Habits" is one of thc best books in a long time. Every paragraph in
this book is loaded with powerful imagery.
Tom Bandy is a gifted theologian, church consultant, pastor, master of
metaphors, and trusted friend. I have seldom experienced as much theologi-
cal depth and breadth and sociological acumen in a church consultant.
Kicking Habits describes a systematic approach to the organic transforma-
tion of congregations rather than a programmatic renewal and restructuring of
institutional church life. It compares the Croquet game ethos of the Declining
Church System--wbere people are required to jump through the hoops of
political constraint--with the Jai Ahti game ethos of the Thriving Church
System, where all that matters is that the world is changed in the name of Jesus
Christ through gifted, called, equipped, and sent people. Tom s uncanny visual
graphs used to describe the two systems are alone worth the price of the book.
The genius of the book is Tom s use of pediatric and addictive metaphors to
describe the condition of mainstream Protestantism. Mainstream Protestantism
is addicted to many irrelevant "sacred cows." Addictive churchcs cannot be
renewed. Like am addict, they must admit their addiction and be transformed.
Their reason for being must be radically altered. "No programmatic change
will overcome addiction. Only systemic change will overcome addiction."
This book is tl~e call ,af a "sentinel" who is asking us to admit our
addictions to institutional and programmatic educational systems and to
embrace a ministry of transformation that finds its life and focus outside the
institutional church among the "spiritual yearnings" of the public.
Tom uses the imaginary characters of Bob and Sally Public to caricature
the differences between the Declining Church System and the Thriving
Kicking Habits 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书