This book is my three-year journal of Christian experience of the ups and downs of life. I hope you can relate. What is contained here was first written as blogs on my website, then, in a few cases, as short homilies for small groups. The short messages were written to inspire thought for everyday living. Each installment was written to be shared. Each is about encounters with God’s word and his people. A few friends suggested I gather them together as a book, so here goes. I hope you find it interesting and light for your faith journey. Peace, Bill+
This book is my three-year journal of Christian experience of the ups and downs of life. I hope you can relate. What is contained here was first written as blogs on my website, then, in a few cases, as short homilies for small groups. The short messages were written to inspire thought for everyday living. Each installment was written to be shared. Each is about encounters with God’s word and his people. A few friends suggested I gather them together as a book, so here goes. I hope you find it interesting and light for your faith journey. Peace, Bill+
With a gentlemans questionIs there hope for the Christian faith?lingering in his thoughts, William Floyd Dopp began to discover its answer while visiting churches in Africa. His experience with the powerful and vibrant life of African Christians, especially in the Anglican churches in Uganda, contrasted sharply with the foundering and fading communities of Christians he encountered in Europe and North America. Is There Hope for the Christian Faith? shares the results of the authors grappling with this haunting and hopeful question. He tells how the church in Africa, epitomized by a church convention sign that proclaimed, Jesus is our living hope, provides a sense of promise to churches like one in London, where a brochure noted the churchs purpose: Preserving Holy Worship. Five hundred years after Martin Luther called for reform, a new call has led to the beginnings of another reform of the church. Is There Hope for the Christian Faith? looks at why the church faces so many challenges and explores the hope shown by mission-minded Christians, great Christian authors, and mission-driven ministries in Africa. Yes, there is hope. The sign in Africa says it allJesus is our living hope.
With a gentlemans questionIs there hope for the Christian faith?lingering in his thoughts, William Floyd Dopp began to discover its answer while visiting churches in Africa. His experience with the powerful and vibrant life of African Christians, especially in the Anglican churches in Uganda, contrasted sharply with the foundering and fading communities of Christians he encountered in Europe and North America. Is There Hope for the Christian Faith? shares the results of the authors grappling with this haunting and hopeful question. He tells how the church in Africa, epitomized by a church convention sign that proclaimed, Jesus is our living hope, provides a sense of promise to churches like one in London, where a brochure noted the churchs purpose: Preserving Holy Worship. Five hundred years after Martin Luther called for reform, a new call has led to the beginnings of another reform of the church. Is There Hope for the Christian Faith? looks at why the church faces so many challenges and explores the hope shown by mission-minded Christians, great Christian authors, and mission-driven ministries in Africa. Yes, there is hope. The sign in Africa says it allJesus is our living hope.
Is your congregation in its final days? Move your congregation from survival to revival, says the Rev. Dr. William Dopp. Congregations will not only survive, they will thrive when they enter the mission field. In his lively book Dopp illustrates how to move from the old chapel to the emerging missionary church. Back in 2000, Episcopal priest, William Dopp and his wife, Janet, were on their way to Kisoro, Uganda to be part of a special celebration at St. Andrews Cathedral in that remote part of east Africa. They stopped over in London, where they had the opportunity to attend Sunday worship at St. John the Baptist Church in the Kensington section of London. The contrast between the two churches inspired this book. The old gothic church in London was nearly empty on Sunday morning. One week later, the Dopps took part in worship in rural Kisoro where the 1200-seat cathedral was not large enough to hold the crowd. The church in London had on its literature, Preserving Holy Worship. The church in Kisoro, Uganda proclaimed on a sign, Jesus is our living hope. One church lives in the past; the other is in mission proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ. These two churches are the symbols of what Dopp calls the old chapel church, the OCC, and the emerging missionary church, the EMC. Congregations of all denominations fall into these two categories. Through engaging ministry experiences backed up by current statistics, he illustrates how the emerging missionary church transforms the lives of people.
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