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title:Going to the Root : Nine Proposals for Radical Church Renewal
author:Smith, Christian.
publisher:Herald Press
isbn10 | asin:0836135849
print isbn13:9780836135848
ebook isbn13:9780585233819
language:English
subjectChurch renewal.
publication date:1992
lcc:BV600.2.S574 1992eb
ddc:262/.001/7
subject:Church renewal.
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Going to the Root
Nine Proposals for Radical Church Renewal
Christian Smith
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen), 1960
Going to the root: nine proposals for radical church renewal /
Christian Smith.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8361-3584-9
1. Church renewal. I. Title.
BV600.2.S574 1992
262'.001'7dc20 92-3591
CIP
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The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
All Bible quotes are used by permission, all rights reserved, and are from The Jerusalem Bible (JB), copyright 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, Inc.; The New American Standard Bible (NASB). The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975; The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV). Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers; Revised Standard Version Bible (RSV), copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harper Collins publishers for permission to quote, on p. 109, from C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (New York, Macmillan Child Group, 1988).
GOING TO THE ROOT
Copyright 1992 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 92-3591
International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3584-9
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Gwen M. Stamm
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For Jack & Jeanine Skeen
who opened the door
and
for Jack Miller
who pushed me through it
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Contents
Author's Preface
9
Introduction: Church Renewal That Goes to the Root
13
1. Build Intentional Christian Community
20
2. Do Church Without Clergy
36
3. Decentralize Leadership and Decision Making
58
4. Open Up Worship Services
75
5. Overcome the Edifice Complex
90
6. Cultivate a Grace-ful Spirituality of Everyday Life
104
7. Practice Lifestyle Evangelism
122
8. Work for Social Justice
136
9. Do Grass-Roots Ecumenism
154
Conclusion: Pioneers of a New Paradigm
168
For Further Reading
172
The Author
176

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Author's Preface
It is interesting to me that Herald Press, a Mennonite publisher, chose to publish Going to the Root. Although I am not a Mennonite, many of the ideas I present in this book stem from earlier encounters with the Anabaptist values Mennonites affirm.
When I was a teenager, my family moved to Harleysville, Pennsylvania, an area rich in Mennonite culture. Although many ethnic groups are now included in the Mennonite church, back then in that area Swiss-German Mennonites predominated. It seemed all our new neighbors were named Bergey, Ruth, Alderfer, Stoltzfus, and Yoder.
I was raised a Presbyterian and continued to commute some distance to a Presbyterian church. But my parents' search for a church closer to home led them to explore a number of local Mennonite and Brethren churches. We were thus exposed to Anabaptist thought, and spent many hours discussing the Anabaptist call to discipleship, service, pacifism, community, simplicity, and so on.
Something in Anabaptism sparked my imagination. I
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read a variety of Anabaptist-oriented authors, including John Howard Yoder, Donald Kraybill, Ronald Sider, Walter Klaassen, J. C. Wenger, Dave and Neta Jackson, and Jim Wallis. I had reservationsyet it seemed I had stumbled onto a promising vision of Christianity.
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