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Learning from Willow Creek? Church Services for Seekers in German Milieu Contexts
A Theoretical and Empirical Study with Special Reference to Berlin
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London/Uxbridge, 23. September 2009
Seiten: 734
Auflage: 1 Aufl. Hardcover
Sprache: EN
ISBN-10: 3869551046
ISBN-13: 9783869551043
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Theologie
Kategorie:
Dissertation
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Praxistipp: Mit ihren umfangreichen Milieubeschreibungen und über 100 farbigen Schaubildern ist diese Studie gleichzeitig ein detailliertes „Handbuch“ zum Thema „Sinus Milieus“ und Kontextualisierung für Kirchen
Stichwörter
Gottesdienst, Kirchendistanzierte, Sinus Milieus, USA/Deutschland, Berlin, Interkultureller Vergleich, Fallstudien, Experteninterviews, Kontextualisierung, Evangelisation, Postmoderne
Keywords
Willow Creek Community Church, seeker services, lifestyle research, intercultural studies/comparison, U.S. America /Germany, Europe, case studies, missiological research, contextualisation, evangelism, postmodernism
Rezensionen
„Eine ausgezeichnete Studie, die ich sehr für Theorie und Praxis empfehle! Diese Arbeit ist ein überzeugendes Plädoyer für missionarische Gottesdienste! Sie ist noch weit mehr als das. Sie leistet eine neue und äußerst fruchtbare Verknüpfung: Einerseits wird der missionarische Ansatz der Willow Creek Community Church sorgfältig dargestellt und einer theologischen Überprüfung unterzogen; dabei wird auch die Idee und Praxis der „Seeker Services“ (bis zu ihren jüngsten Wandlungen) in Augenschein genommen. Andererseits wird milieutheoretisch die missionarische Reichweite von sucherfreundlichen und sucherorientierten Gottesdiensten ausgewertet. Indem SINUS-Milieus als Bezugsgröße gewählt werden, wird sowohl die Frage der Übertragbarkeit von missionarischen Modellen erörtert als auch die Notwendigkeit jeweils neuer milieubezogener Inkulturation betont. Schließlich liefert die empirische Studie neues Material zur Evaluation von alternativen Gottesdiensten. Das vorliegende Buch bringt die Diskussion über missionarische Gemeindeentwicklung in Deutschland ein gutes Stück voran!“
Professor Dr. Michael Herbst, Theologische Fakultät Universität Greifswald
Reviews
“An excellent piece of work! I highly recommend it to all those interested in the topic of seeker-sensitive church services and the Willow Creek model as well as to those who want to learn more about the different lifestyle groups in Western societies. The detailed sociological data is unsurpassed and includes a comparison of the diversity between the cultures of Germany and the U.S. The findings are very helpful, indeed, are a must, for churches and Christian organisations who consider working in Europe and Germany in particular. And it will serve as a model to be imitated by others who seek to work elsewhere in Europe, especially in urban mission. It is rare to find a work where theological and sociological analysis are applied with such discernment.”
Dr. Derek Tidball, London School of Theology
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Future First, Number 10, August 2010
German Church Growth
A technique for combining societal class and values by the German Gerhard Schultzes has been used in sociological research for over 25 years by constructing what are called “milieus”. Their value is in giving a two-dimensional understanding of different “clusters” and how they can reflect different life-styles. Rainer Schacke decided to use this method to investigate church growth in Germany for his doctoral thesis with the London School of Theology.
By interviewing church members in several Berlin churches, Rainer indentified which of these groups were among its members. In one church, for example, there were four – New Middle Class, Postmaterialists, Modern Performers and Experimentalists, though not necessarily in the proportions shown in the diagram which relate to the entire city of Berlin. Measuring the same 5 years later, he found that some now attending the same church were in a different group – an extra group was being reached, with a different class background and values.
Some of the churches had planted an extra congregation in the period under measurement, which often reaches different groups from those in the original church. How best span the culture difference thus revealed? He also found that the different churches were reaching different groups in different locations. Church leaders thus could compare how they were reaching people in a common group, says the New Middle Class, but some groups, like the Traditionalists, were only being reached by one church.
The value of this approach is that the domains show the neighborhood values which help in understanding how to reach people where in understanding how to reach people where they currently stands. The author can be reached via the publisher of the book, info@cuvillier.de.
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