TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitch,David E.
TI  - The great giveaway: reclaiming the mission of the church from big business, parachurch organizations, psychotherapy, consumer capitalism, and other modern maladies 
SN  - 9780801064838
AV  - BR1642 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Baker Books
KW  - Mission of the church
KW  - United States
N1  - 1 (pages 231-263); Introduction : the great giveaway : toward an postmodern evangelical ecclesiology --; Our definition of success : when going from ten to a thousand members in five years is the sign of a sick church --; Evangelism : saving souls beyond modernity : how evangelism can save the church and make it "relevant" again --; Leadership : when evangelical pastors end up in moral failure : the missing link between the pastorate and the virtues --; The production of experience : why worship takes practice : toward a worship that forms truthful minds and faithful experience (not merely reinforces the ones we walked in with) --; The preaching of the Word : the myth of expository preaching : why we must do more than wear scrolls on our foreheads --; Justice (our understanding of) : practicing redeemed economics : Christian community in but not of capitalism --; Spiritual formation : the need for more preaching (and penance) in the psychologist's office, or why therapy never should have left the church in the first place --; Moral education : evangelicals and the training of our children to be good Americans : the example of character education in the public schools --; Conclusion : let us return to the practices; 2
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