Being Church, Becoming Community. (Reviews).

From: Presbyterian Record | Date: February 1, 2002 | Copyright information

Being Church, Becoming Community by John M. Buchanan (Westminster John Knox, 1996). Reviewed by Arthur Van Seters.

A few years ago, our denomination held a national think-tank in response to years of often discouraging debate over the future of the church. Much effort went into the event but, in all honesty, not much seems to have changed as a result. So I wondered what John Buchanan might contribute in this little volume.

For more than 15 years, Buchanan has been senior minister of the historic Fourth Presbyterian Church in the heart of Chicago. Subsequent to writing ...

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