Re-Emerging Church
Strategies for Reaching a Returning Generation
by Roger Standing
Paperback
Price: £7.99
Publisher:BRF (Bible Reading Fellowship)
Published:June 2008
ISBN:978-1-841-01492-0
GoodBookStall Review:
Although the title does not specifically say, this book is about the baby boomer generation and how they might return to church. It very helpfully scopes the issues of the 50-65 generation and offers reflections and study material to help the reader and small groups get to grips with it. Roger Standing is a Baptist teaching at Spurgeon’s Theological College and is himself from the background of people he is trying to understand and reach. The main strength of the book is his analysis of the ‘journey of faith’ and the life time of choices’ which he observes leads to ‘institutional suspicion’. All very interesting for any church to consider, as all are institutions in one form of another.
Reviewer: Jim Currin (11/07/08)
Although the title does not specifically say, this book is about the baby boomer generation and how they might return to church. It very helpfully scopes the issues of the 50-65 generation and offers reflections and study material to help the reader and small groups get to grips with it. Roger Standing is a Baptist teaching at Spurgeon’s Theological College and is himself from the background of people he is trying to understand and reach. The main strength of the book is his analysis of the ‘journey of faith’ and the life time of choices’ which he observes leads to ‘institutional suspicion’. All very interesting for any church to consider, as all are institutions in one form of another.
Reviewer: Jim Currin (11/07/08)
