THE GREAT GIVEAWAY: RECOVERING THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH FROM … Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS AN EVANGELICAL POSTMODERN ECCLESIOLOGY

How Evangelicals Giveaway:

Our Definition of Success:
CH. 1 WHEN GOING FROM TEN TO A THOUSAND MEMBERS IN FIVE YEARS IS THE SIGN OF A SICK CHURCH

Evangelism
CH. 2 SAVING SOULS BEYOND MODERNITY: How evangelism can save the church and make it "relevant" again

Leadership
CH. 3 WHEN EVANGELICAL PASTORS END UP IN MORAL FAILURE: The missing link between the pastorate and the virtues

The Production of Experience
CH. 4 WHY WORSHIP TAKES PRACTICE: Towards a Worship that forms truthful minds and faithful experience (not merely reinforces the ones we walked in with)

The Preaching of the Word
CH. 5 THE MYTH OF EXPOSITORY PREACHING: Why we must do more than wear scrolls on our foreheads.

Justice (Our Understanding of)
CH. 6 PRACTICING REDEEMED ECONOMICS: Christian community in but not of capitalism

Spiritual Formation
CH. 7 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
CH. 8 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