Appendix C : resources for the emerging church. The anti-Christian, antichurch, post-Christian seeker ; How I moved from being seeker-sensitive to post-seeker-sensitive ; Understanding the past to understand the future ; Beyond postmodernism, candles, and cool ; More than a generation gap ; Born (Buddhist-Christian-Wiccan-Muslim-straight-gay) in the USA ; I like Jesus, but I don't like Christians ; What is "church?" : the second most important chapter in this book -- Reconstructing vintage Christianity in the emerging church. The dilemma of seeker-sensitive services ; What is this thing we call the "worship service?" ; The seeker-sensitive service versus the post-seeker worship gathering ; Overcoming the fear of multisensory worship and teaching ; Creating a sacred space for vintage worship ; Expecting the spiritual, expressing the arts ; Creating experiential, multisensory worship gatherings ; Preaching : becoming storytellers again ; Preaching without words ; Evangelism : beyond the prayer to get into heaven ; Spiritual formation : becoming a vintage Christian ; Leadership for the emerging church -- Personal epilogue : the road goes ever on -- Appendix A : sample layout of a vintage worship gathering -- Appendix B : sample teaching topics -- Appendix C : resources for the emerging church.
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