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Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect (?mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
 
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Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect (?mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) [Kindle Edition]

Joseph R. Myers

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Community is a fundamental life search and one of the key aspects people look for in a congregation. But community can't be forced, controlled, or easily created. The problem, says Joseph R. Myers, is that churches are too focused on developing programs instead of concentrating on environments where community will spontaneously emerge.

Organic Community challenges key leaders to become environmentalists--people who create or shape environments. Outlining nine organizational tools for creating a healthy environment, Myers shows readers how to diagnose their current situation and implement patterns that will develop possibilities for healthy communities.

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Community is a fundamental life search and one of the key aspects people look for in a congregation. But community can't be forced, controlled, or easily created. The problem, says Joseph R. Myers, is that churches are too focused on developing programs instead of concentrating on environments where community will spontaneously emerge. "Organic Community" challenges key leaders to become environmentalists - people who create or shape environments. Outlining nine organizational tools for creating a healthy environment, Myers shows readers how to diagnose their current situation and implement patterns that will develop possibilities for healthy communities.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Dateigröße: 1848 KB
  • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe: 192 Seiten
  • Verlag: Baker Books (1. Mai 2007)
  • Verkauf durch: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ASIN: B001CSPA3G
  • Text-to-Speech (Vorlesemodus): Aktiviert

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Excellent second book by Myers! 17. Mai 2007
Von Randall G. Neighbour - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
Format:Taschenbuch
While I was intrigued by what Myers wrote in his first book (The Search to Belong) I had some bones to pick with him about assumptions he made about small group-based churches and how people relate to one another in those churches.

However, Myers really hits the nail on the head in this second book and I can see he's grown as a writer.

His comments on why people get involved in a church and small group are fascinating and insightful. While I would have liked to see more sources sited for his comments in this area, I believe he's dead-on with what he wrote.

I did not give the book five stars for one simple reason. In a some chapters, he gives excellent practical application for the chapter's content. However, in other chapters, he provides nothing and for that reason, those chapters left me wanting.

I also enjoyed Myers frank and to-the-point writing style and the fact that the book was a page turner that I read in one sitting. This book has some deep content within, but is not a hard read...which should make it a stronger selling book. Joe, you've done a good job of keeping all the cookies on the lower shelf for readers like me and I appreciate it.
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Going Green in Ministry 30. August 2007
Von Heather Zempel - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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You know a book is going to be good when you find yourself underlining stuff in the forward. After reading "Search to Belong" and "Organic Community," I think I would be willing to plop down money for just about anything that Joseph Myers writes. Like most of my favorite authors, he drives me crazy. I tried really hard to not like him. I wanted to brand him as anti-small groups. I tried to zoom in and focus only on the areas where I disagreed with him. But I just can't. Joseph is writing from lots of a experience and from a heart that truly desires to see people grow in real, authentic community. Anyone who works with small groups, discipleship, or community needs to read this book. Like me, you may find yourself disagreeing with certain things or getting defensive, but you still need to wrestle with it.

"Organic Community" challenges us to create environments where true Biblical community can flourish. It is not a step-by-step master plan or some new model for ministry. Rather, Joseph presents nine ideas that we need to consider when designing community experiences that allow community to "emerge" instead of being fabricated. He gives principles for going green and becoming an environmentalist instead of a master planner. I found two chapters particularly helpful. The chapter on "Patterns" helps the reader identify how and why people connect. The chapter on "Partners" challenges our ideas about accountability and encourages a new approach of editability. I have lots of good, constructive questions after reading this book. For instance, what are we measuring and why? Are we measuring the right things? What are we really trying to accomplish in the small group environment?

"Organic Community" is easy to read, and the tone is straightforward. I still have some bones to pick with the author about certain issues lingering from Search to Belong, but that's a good thing.

If you have not read "The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups," I would recommend reading that first. If you are interested in reading more about community, I would also recommend John Ortberg's Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
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Organic? Yes. Useful? Maybe. 8. Dezember 2009
Von Doulos Theou - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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This book might or might not be useful to readers. Having complained in a recent review that another practical theology book was far too programmatic, I was refreshed to perceive the anti-prescriptive bias of Organic Community (by the way, the title of the book has nothing to do with growing fruits and vegetables or hemp, etc.).

Myers relies heavily on antonyms and antithetical word pairs to convey his ideas. One example is the pair of cooperation and collaboration, which he views as describing a prescriptive plan on one hand (cooperation) and organic participation on the other (collaboration).

I could only give the book two stars because I don't think there's much new and interesting material here. Many readers no doubt will have heard the mantra already. Yes, our society is postmodern. No one likes rules and plans and programs anymore. We have rejected most top-down models in favor of bottom-up experiential ones. Statements like these have been made repeatedly by the vanguards of postmodern Christianity and church. Additionally, I was surprised by the business-like feel of the book.

What is valuable in Organic Community, I believe, is some keen analysis of wording and models of leadership/social interaction. I think that all readers can carry such analyses forward to understand and to participate in their various church settings amidst shifting cultural and social conditions.

For those who are interested in this book but uncertain, I would like to recommend two books in the same vein that I found more useful and insightful. The first is Glenn McDonald's The Disciple Making Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality and the second is Randy Frazee's The Connecting Church. I hope that my review is helpful to all of you. Do not shy away from reading this book if the topic interests you. Just remember that it is not Gospel - the Gospel transforms, and the best this book can do is to inform.

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People look for place before purpose, which is to say they seek first to belong before helping to meet a goal. &quote;
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Create environments and spaces that encourage the patterns of belonging and allow people to connect naturally in all kinds of ways. &quote;
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Responsible anarchy is about acting for the good of the group. It helps protect against "group think." It is an anomaly that is responsible for keeping the group together while at the same time preserving the individuality of each person. &quote;
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