Guinness, Os.
Dining with the devil : the megachurch movement flirts with modernity / Os Guinness. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Book House, �1993. - 113 pages ; 22 cm
"Hourglass books."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-113).
Opening meditation : "Fishers of men" / S�ren Kierkegaard -- Introduction -- One main question -- Two main roots of the challenge -- Three main dangers of modernity -- Four main steps in compromise -- Five main ironies -- Six main carriers of modernity -- Seven main tips for discernment -- Conclusion -- Closing meditation : "The celestial rail-road" / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon"--Peter L. Berger. Today's megachurch movement should heed this warning, because of its often uncritical use of management and marketing tools to induce growth. Os Guinness provides a perceptive, thoughtful assessment of this powerful movement and its proneness to compromise with modernity. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking questions for reflection and discussion. This book also includes two unique meditations: S�ren Kierkegaard's "Fishers of Men" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Rail-road." --! From back cover.
0801038553 9780801038556
93016794
1900-1999
Church growth--United States.
Big churches.
Christianity and culture.
�Eglise--Expansion--�Etats-Unis.
Grandes �eglises (Communaut�es)
Big churches.
Christianity and culture.
Church growth.
Christianisme et culture.
Croissance de l'�Eglise--�Etats-Unis.
United States--Church history--20th century.
�Etats-Unis--Histoire religieuse--20e si�ecle.
United States.
�Etats-Unis--Histoire religieuse--20e si�ecle.
United States--Church history--20th century.
Church history.
BR526 / .G85 1993
254/.5
Dining with the devil : the megachurch movement flirts with modernity / Os Guinness. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Book House, �1993. - 113 pages ; 22 cm
"Hourglass books."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-113).
Opening meditation : "Fishers of men" / S�ren Kierkegaard -- Introduction -- One main question -- Two main roots of the challenge -- Three main dangers of modernity -- Four main steps in compromise -- Five main ironies -- Six main carriers of modernity -- Seven main tips for discernment -- Conclusion -- Closing meditation : "The celestial rail-road" / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon"--Peter L. Berger. Today's megachurch movement should heed this warning, because of its often uncritical use of management and marketing tools to induce growth. Os Guinness provides a perceptive, thoughtful assessment of this powerful movement and its proneness to compromise with modernity. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking questions for reflection and discussion. This book also includes two unique meditations: S�ren Kierkegaard's "Fishers of Men" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Rail-road." --! From back cover.
0801038553 9780801038556
93016794
1900-1999
Church growth--United States.
Big churches.
Christianity and culture.
�Eglise--Expansion--�Etats-Unis.
Grandes �eglises (Communaut�es)
Big churches.
Christianity and culture.
Church growth.
Christianisme et culture.
Croissance de l'�Eglise--�Etats-Unis.
United States--Church history--20th century.
�Etats-Unis--Histoire religieuse--20e si�ecle.
United States.
�Etats-Unis--Histoire religieuse--20e si�ecle.
United States--Church history--20th century.
Church history.
BR526 / .G85 1993
254/.5