Liquid Church
Liquid Church by Pete Ward, published by Hendrickson Publishers in 2002, presents a transformative vision for the church, emphasizing its need to be flexible and adaptable like water. This 112-page book explores how the church can embrace the fluid nature of contemporary culture rather than merely trying to survive within it. Ward challenges the traditional concept of church as a static gathering, proposing instead that it should be understood as a dynamic network of relationships and communications.
Readers will find that Liquid Church focuses on the importance of participation and involvement in defining membership, highlighting the church’s ability to respond to the Spirit and the gospel of Jesus. The book addresses the needs of isolated consumer-Christians by fostering connection and community through shared goals and desires for God. Ward’s insights encourage a rethinking of ecclesiology, making this work relevant for those interested in Christian theology and the evolving nature of the Christian church.
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The church must be like water — flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how the church can embrace the liquid nature of culture rather than just scrambling to keep afloat while sailing over it. Ward urges us to move away from the traditional notion of church as a gathering of people meeting in one place at one time to the dynamic notion of church as a series of relationships and communications. In the Liquid Church, membership is determined by participation and involvement. Liquid Church is continually on the move, flowing in response to the Spirit and the gospel of Jesus, the imagination and creativity of its leaders, and the choices and experiences of its worshippers. In this provocative, insightful, and challenging book, Pete Ward presents his vision of a Liquid Church that addresses the needs of the isolated consumer-Christian by providing connection and community, located in common cause and similar desire for God. Book jacket.
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