Church Matters: Retrieving the Great Tradition

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4. The end of a generation: what will be the future of the new missionary movements (indigenous movements, insider movements, organic church development)

5. What do we make of the wholesale exodus of many solid evangelicals into more liturgical and sacramental traditions, especially into the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions?

6. A church for postmodern faith: the emerging church movement

a. The New Hymn Writers: the worldwide phenomenon of praise and worship music (Tomlin, Passion Worship Band, Paul Baloche, Hillsong)

b. The industry of evangelical congregationalism: the big business of conservative evangelical faith

7. The non-church “Revolution”: George Barna and the weird postmodern claims to the superfluous gatherings of the Church

8. Church planting movements: uneven phenomena of rapidly reproducing informal, small churches (what is the future of these movements?)

9. Uneasy conscience of fundamentals: what precisely ought the role of the conservative church be in regard to the poor, oppressed, the environment, the imprisoned, the sick, the broken?