ChurchMorph
Eddie Gibbs, ChurchMorph: How Megatrends Are Reshaping Christian Communities (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009). $17.99, 222 pages. According to Eddie Gibbs, five megatrends are convulsing the Western church. They are the shifts from modernity to postmodernity, from the industrial age to the information age, from Christendom to post-Christendom, from production to consumerism, and from religious identity to spiritual exploration. The response of Western Christians to these shifts varies. Some are ignorant of the megatrends; some purposefully ignore them. Others, however, are rethinking what it means to be a church in the new Western cultural context. ChurchMorph is a taxonomy … Continue reading ChurchMorph