TY - BOOK AU - Kimball, Dan TI - The emerging church: vintage Christianity for new generations SN - 0310245648 AV - BV15 .K48 2003 PY - 2003///. CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Zondervan KW - Public worship. KW - Evangelistic work. KW - Non-church-affiliated people. KW - Church work with young adults. N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264).; |tDeconstructing postmodern ministry, candles, and coffee. |tThe anti-Christian, antichurch, post-Christian seeker ; |tHow I moved from being seeker-sensitive to post-seeker- sensitive ;|tUnderstanding the past to understand the future ;|tBeyond postmodernism, candles, and cool ;|tMore than a generation gap ;|tBorn (Buddhist-Christian-Wiccan-Muslim-straight-gay) in the USA ;|tI like Jesus, but I don't like Christians ;|tWhat is "church?" : the second most important chapter in this book --|tReconstructing vintage Christianity in the emerging church.|tThe dilemma of seeker-sensitive services ;|tWhat is this thing we call the "worship service?" ;|tThe seeker-sensitive service versus the post-seeker worship gathering ;|tOvercoming the fear of multisensory worship and teaching ;|tCreating a sacred space for vintage worship ;|tExpecting the spiritual, expressing the arts ;|tCreating experiential, multisensory worship gatherings ;|tPreaching : becoming storytellers again ;|tPreaching without words ; |tEvangelism : beyond the prayer to get into heaven ; |tSpiritual formation : becoming a vintage Christian ; tLeadership for the emerging church --|tPersonal epilogue : the road goes ever on --|tAppendix A : sample layout of a vintage worship gathering --|tAppendix B : sample teaching topics --|tAppendix C : resources for the emerging church. ER -