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    Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love
    Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love
    Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love
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    Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love

    By Samuel E. Ewell III

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    Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love, the companion volume to Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's book, New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church (2008), is a practical study guide to invite the church to imagine that "another ways is possible" as it lives into its identity as "God's peculiar people" (Titus 2:14). Its stories, reflection questions, and suggested exercises are designed to catalyze local churches and Christian communities into becoming "laboratories for the gospel kingdom"--that is, communities that serve the living God and their neighbors by carrying out experiments in faith, hope, and love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateMay 12, 2008
    ISBN9781498275347
    Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love
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    Samuel E. Ewell III

    Samuel E. Ewell III is a co-director of EAT MAKE PLAY, a neighborhood-based community co-op focused on regenerating a circular economy that is citizen-led and place-based. He also works with Companions for Hope, a Christian community based in the Summerfield parish, where he combines prison and community engagement, urban permaculture, and theological facilitation as a way of cultivating abundant community at the edges of inner-city Birmingham (UK). He is also the author of Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love (2008).

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      Building Up the Church - Samuel E. Ewell III

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      Building Up the Church

      LIVE EXPERIMENTS IN FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE

      SAM EWELL

      a study guide for New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today’s Church by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Brazos, 2008)

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      BUILDING UP THE CHURCH

      Live Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love

      Copyright © 2008 School for Conversion. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Part One

      Setting the Stage

      What Kind of School?

      Conversion and/as Learning New Roles

      Finding Our Place in the Circle

      Hosting the Sessions

      Part Two

      Getting Started: Knowing Where We Are

      Vocabulary Exercise

      What? So What? Now What?

      Chapter 1: Reading the Signs of the Times

      Chapter 2: Seeing Signs of Something New

      Chapter 3: A Vision So Old It Looks New

      Chapter 4: God’s Plan to Save the World Through a People

      Chapter 5: Relocation and Renewal

      Chapter 6: Daily Bread and Forgiven Debts

      Chapter 7: A New Peace Corps

      Chapter 8: A Culture of Grace and Truth

      Chapter 9: Why New Monasticism Needs the Church

      Experimenting with Faith, Hope, and Love

      The Lab Report: Notes for Future Experiments

      Works Cited

      Part one

      Setting the Stage

      This is the study guide for School for Conversion’s (SFC) 103 course: Building Up the Church: (Live) Experiments in Faith, Hope, and Love—the companion volume to Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s book, New Monasticism: What it Has to Say to Today’s Church.¹ As a study guide (and not a workbook per se), it is designed as a commentary on the book and as a resource for group study, rather than as a series of ready-made lesson plans to be worked through in a linear way.

      This is particularly true of Part 2, which is organized as a collection of resources—stories, reflection questions, suggested exercises—that will be arranged by and adapted for each group of participants. While Part 2 directly engages the textbook of the course and functions as the platform for the group session, Part 1 does the work of vision-casting for participation in the course and answers some basic questions in relation to the course and how it fits into the School for Conversion’s vision for theological education. So, before you get started with your group sessions, please read Part 1 carefully.

      In the introduction to SFC’s 101 course: Introduction to Christianity as a Way of Life, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove writes that new monasticism has emerged within the fragmentation of contemporary American Christianity to experiment with new forms of faithfulness—as an attempt to embody an answer to the question faced by the whole church: how do we live the gospel of God’s kingdom that Jesus taught and practiced at this moment?

      While the 101 course functions as a kind of movable seminary that circulates among new monastic communities—both catalyzing and learning from their witness—this course has a different focus. It seeks to catalyze and learn with/from the (local) church about its identity as God’s peculiar people (Titus 2:14). To do that, we will return to the question mentioned above about the gospel of God’s kingdom, sharing some of the results of new monasticism’s experiments in order to extend the conversation to the whole church.

      So, if we think of this course as an extended conversation, it will be helpful to keep in mind the basic direction of the conversation. Here’s a little road map—a sketch of where this conversation is going:

      Through the signs, roots, and stories set forth in chapters 2–4 of New Monasticism, and through the practices elaborated in chapters 5–9, the stage is set for a conversation about how "life together in new monastic communities . . . could

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