In an effort to draw sellout crowds is the modern church in danger of selling out? This is the question author and pastor Gary E. Gilley addresses in This Little Church Went to Market. Marketing tactics, demographic analyses, and entertainment-oriented worship have taken the new-paradigm church by storm.
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In an effort to draw sellout crowds, is the modern Church in danger of selling out? This is the question author and pastor Gary E. Gilley addresses in This Little Church Went to Market. He believes that under pressure from secular philosophies and fads, many evangelical churches have subscribed to pragmatic rather than scriptural patterns for ministry. Marketing tactics, demographic analyses and entertainment-oriented worship have taken the new paradigm Church by storm. The result is a Christian community which is rapidly losing its focus and forfeiting its biblical mandate. This Little Church Went to Market is a call for the Church to return to its scriptural roots.
Gary E. Gilley is the author of the popular book, I Just Wanted More Land—Jabez, and has pastored at Southern View Chapel, Springfield, IL, since 1975. He is also the author of the widely circulated publication, Think On These Things.
Table of Contents:
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- A New Kind of Church
- Entertainment
- Market Driven Philosophy
- Psychology
- A Church with the Wrong Foundation
- A Church with the Wrong Message
- A Church Focused on the Wrong Need
- A Church That Misunderstands Worship: How Shall We Then Preach?
- A Church That Misunderstands Worship: How Shall We Then Sing?
- A Church at the Crossroad
- Title: This Little Church Went to Market
- Item#: B10499
- ISBN: 0-85234-596-8
- Size: 142 pages
- Length: 8.50
- Width: 5.50
- Weight: 0.4
- Copyright: 2005