Author : John Killinger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532692773
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Book Synopsis Outgrowing Church, 2nd ed. by : John Killinger
Download or read book Outgrowing Church, 2nd ed. written by John Killinger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church so that they no longer find it adequate as a social structure for the celebration of their faith. In their attempts to find Jesus and his teachings relevant within the new culture, they strike out on their own or adhere to para-Christian organizations that retain an allegiance to Jesus without the baggage of the traditional institution. Killinger, a former big-steeple minister and theologian, describes how he himself has been forced essentially to abandon the church in order to remain faithful to the beliefs and ideals that first drew him into it.