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Part 1 Depressed Congregations |
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1 The Church and the Depressing Speed of Change |
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3 | (16) |
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2 Speeding to the Good Life, Crashing into Guilt: Why $1.6 Billion Isn't as Good as You Think |
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19 | (12) |
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3 Fullness as Busyness: Why Busy Churches Attract and Then Lose Busy People |
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31 | (14) |
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4 The Strip Show: When Sacred Time Is No Longer the Time We Keep |
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45 | (14) |
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Part 2 Examining Congregational Despondency; Our Issue Is Time
5. When Time Isn't What It Used to Be: What's Speeding Up Time? |
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59 | (92) |
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63 | (8) |
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Dimension One Technological Acceleration |
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7 Minding the Time: Why the Church Feels Socially Behind |
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71 | (10) |
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Dimension Two Acceleration of Social Life (Part One) |
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8 Why The Office Can't Be Rebooted: The Decay Rate of Social Change |
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81 | (8) |
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Dimension Two Acceleration of Social Life (Part Two) |
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9 When Sex and Work Are in a Fast Present: The Church and the Decay Rate of Our Social Structures |
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89 | (34) |
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Dimension Two Acceleration of Social Life (Part Three) |
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10 Why Email Sucks, and Social Media Even More: Reach and Acceleration |
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123 | (16) |
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Dimension Three Acceleration of the Pace of Life (Part One) |
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11 Reach and the Seculars |
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139 | (12) |
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Dimension Three Acceleration of the Pace of Life (Part Two) |
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Part 3 Moving from Relevance to Resonance |
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12 Time-Famine and Resource Obsession: Another Step into Alienation |
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151 | (20) |
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13 Why the Slow Church Can't Work: Stabilization, Alienation, and Loss of the Congregational Will to Be |
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171 | (20) |
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14 Alienation's Other: Resonance |
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191 | (24) |
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15 When Bonhoeffer Time Travels: Resonance as Carrying the Child |
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215 | (16) |
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16 To Become a Child: Matthew 18 and the Congregation That Is Carried |
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231 | (12) |
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17 Ending with a Little Erotic Ecstasy |
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243 | (20) |
| Index |
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