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    Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community
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    Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community

    By Ruth Haley Barton

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    Best Book of Spiritual Formation, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Have you joined a church or small group in hopes of experiencing real life change, only to be disappointed?

    Have you sat through inspiring sermons about what is possible when Christians gather together in mutually edifying relationships, only to recognize how cynical you have become after many failed attempts?

    Community may be one of the most over-promised, under-delivered aspects of the Christian life today. Individuals remain selfish and stuck in their ways. Communities become spiritually lifeless or even fall apart because we don't know how to experience transformation together.

    Transforming community does not come primarily from listening to inspiring preaching or adding another church program. It emerges as we embrace a shared commitment to the attitudes, practices and behaviors that open us to Christ in our midst. And that's where Life Together in Christ comes in. Reflecting on the story of the two disciples who meet Christ on the Emmaus Road, Ruth Haley Barton offers this interactive guide for small groups of spiritual companions who are ready to encounter Christ in transforming ways—right where they are on the road of real life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateOct 30, 2014
    ISBN9780830896387
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    Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community
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    Ruth Haley Barton

    Ruth Haley Barton recibió su educación y entrenamiento como directora espiritual, líder de retiros, y maestra en la Facultad Wheaton en Illinois, en el Seminario Northern en Lombard, Illinois y el Instituto de Estudios Pastorales de la Universidad Loyola en Chicago. Es presidente fundadora del Centro Transformador, profesora auxiliar en la Escuela Universitaria de Graduados Wheaton, el Seminario Northern y la Escuela Universitaria de Graduados Mars Hill. Además, es autora de recursos de formación espiritual y de varios libros incluyendo, Momentos Sagrados y Una invitación al silencio y quietud. Ruth, su esposo Chris y su familia residen en el área de Chicago.

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      A disappointingly unchallenging and shallow reexamination of community. The author seems to have been both very privileged and while she presents her own journey from a meritless inherited view to a better one, her final destination wasn't inspiring or challenging to me. This book might help people who have no sense of Christian community develop something resembling it, but it doesn't begin to resemble to ideal model of community that was modeled by Christ.