Description
Many congregations today focus on strategy and purpose—what churches “do”—but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches wish to focus instead on “what” or “who” they’re—to reclaim a theological, moderately than sociological, understanding of themselves.
Peterson suggests that we have in mind the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a community, and that we will have to claim a narrative method to explore the church”s identity—specifically, the story of the church’s origin in the Acts of the Apostles. After all, here’s a frame of mind of church that reconciles the most efficient of competing models of church for the way forward for mainline Protestant theology.