Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus Leadership and Missions Because we are not an

Because we are not an engine creating Love

desiring a kingdom of truth and love on this side of the flaming sword of Eden

ISBN 9781513612454

January 1962

Author: Joy Hilden

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus Leadership and Missions Because we are not anThe church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the structures and practices of our churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency and dis integrating isolationism. In the beginning, the church ate