Searching for Seekers: Ministry With a New Generation of the Unchurched

Searching for Seekers......Page 2
INTRODUCTION......Page 3
Developing a Passion for Seekers......Page 4
Seekers: Who Are They?......Page 7
Potential Followers......Page 9
A Theology of Unity......Page 10
The Spiritual Needs of Seekers......Page 12
The Call to Search for Seekers......Page 15
2 ? Generation to Generation......Page 19
The Builders......Page 20
The Boomers......Page 21
The Busters......Page 22
The Birthers......Page 23
The Seekers......Page 24
The Church......Page 29
3 ? Creative Worship For Tomorrow......Page 31
Seeker-Sensitive Potential in Various Worship Styles......Page 35
Comparing Worship Styles......Page 36
The Unchurched SeekerSeeking in a Foreign Land......Page 38
Worship Figure A......Page 42
Worship Figure B......Page 43
The Anti-Church SeekerSeeking in a Forbidden Land......Page 45
Worship Figure C......Page 50
Worship Figure D......Page 51
The Sunday Schooled Seeker Seeking in an Old Familiar Place......Page 52
Worship Figure E......Page 54
Worship Figure F......Page 58
The Converted Seeker Seeking in New Ways......Page 59
4 ? Tools for the Twenty-first Century......Page 61
Media Resources......Page 62
Technology......Page 65
Human Contact......Page 66
Atmosphere......Page 67
Order and Flow of the Worship Service......Page 68
The Written Word......Page 70
Language and Communication......Page 72
Here Is the Steeple......Page 73
Open the Doors and There Are the People......Page 75
Assessing the Tools......Page 76
5 ? Preaching to a New Generation......Page 78
Sermons Based on What?......Page 79
Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged......Page 80
Where We Preach......Page 81
How the Message Is Conveyed......Page 82
The Questioning Sermon......Page 83
Worship Figure G......Page 84
The Story Sermon......Page 87
The Meditational Sermon......Page 89
Worship Figure H......Page 90
The Exegetical Sermon......Page 92
6 ? Go Ye into All the World......Page 94
Choosing and Establishing the Ministry Team......Page 95
Checking It Out: Investigating Ministry Needs......Page 97
Rallying the Troops: Selling the New Ministry......Page 98
Whom Will We Reach?......Page 100
What We Can Offer......Page 101
Planning the Worship Services......Page 103
A Model for Planning Seeker Worship......Page 105
Just Do It: The Implementation Process......Page 107
The Joy of Going Into All the World......Page 108
Reaching Seekers of Different Generations......Page 110
Seeker Friendly Churches......Page 111
Making The Move Toward Becoming aSeeker Friendly Church......Page 113
Preacher as the Woman......Page 115
Notes......Page 119
Searching for Seekers......Page 134