Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity

Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity

by Frank Viola
Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity

Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity

by Frank Viola

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Overview

Author Frank Viola gives readers language for all they knew was missing in their modern church experience. He believes that many of today's congregations have shifted from God's original intent for the church. As a prominent leader of the house church movement, Frank is at the forefront of a revolution sweeping through the body of Christ. A change that is challenging the spiritual status quo and redefining the very nature of church. A movement inspired by the divine design for authenticity community. A fresh concept rooted in ancient history and in God Himself.

Join Frank as he shares God's original intent for the church, where the body of Christ is an organic, living, breathing organism. A church that is free of convention, formed by spiritual intimacy, and unbound by four walls.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781434768759
Publisher: David C Cook
Publication date: 08/01/2008
Series: Blank Series
Edition description: New
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 879,186
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Frank Viola is an internationally renowned speaker and author. He is a leading voice of the house church movement, a group of believers that seeks to reconnect with the original model of Christian fellowship. Frank lives with his family in Gainesville, Florida.

Table of Contents


Preface     11
Introduction: Toward a New Kind of Church     15
Community and Gatherings
Reimagining the Church as an Organism     31
Reimagining the Church Meeting     49
Reimagining the Lord's Supper     73
Reimagining the Gathering Place     83
Reimagining the Family of God     97
Reimagining Church Unity     117
Church Practice and God's Eternal Purpose     135
Leadership and Accountability
Reimagining Leadership     153
Reimagining Oversight     167
Reimagining Decision-Making     189
Reimagining Spiritual Covering     201
Reimagining Authority and Submission     207
Reimagining Denominational Covering     229
Reimagining the Apostolic Tradition     241
Where Do We Go from Here?     255
Objections and Responses about Leadership     281
Bibliography     307
Notes     311

What People are Saying About This

John White

"If Pagan Christianity? exposes the reality that much of our current church practice has little basis in the Bible, Reimagining Church takes the next step to establish what truly biblical church life looks like. With the inner life of the Trinity as the starting point, Viola paints an amazing picture of organic church life."--(John White, community facilitator, LK10: A Community of Practice for Church Planters)

Alan Hirsch

"True to form, this book contains a thoroughly consistent critique of prevailing forms of church. However, in Reimagining Church, Frank Viola also presents a positive vision of what the church can become if we truly reembraced more organic, and less institutional, forms of church. This is a no holds barred prophetic vision for the church in the twenty-first Century."--(Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways and The Shaping of Things To Come)

Jon Zens

The body of Christ has been stifled by human traditions for far too long. Reimagining Church charts a fresh course for the church that recovers the simplicity of Christ and listens seriously to what the voice of the Great Shepherd is saying to His people."--(Jon Zens, editor, Searching Together and author of A Church Building Every ½ Mile: What Makes American Christianity Tick?

Shane Claiborne

"Dissent is a gift to the Church. It is the imagination of the prophets that continually call us back to our identity as the peculiar people of God. May Viola's words challenge us to become the change that we want to see in the Church ... and not to settle for anything less than God's dream for Her."--(Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution, activist, and recovering sinner)

Leonard Sweet

In Reimagining Church, Frank Viola is at the top of his game, showing a serene, soaring mastery of the theology of church as organism rather than organization."--(Leonard Sweet, author of Soul Tsunami, Soul Salsa, and 11)

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