U.S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches: A Key to Reaching People in the 90's / Edition 1

by Tex Sample

Overview

In this book, Tex Sample provides the church with the information it needs to attract and keep members. Sample disucsses common lifestyles, including what he calls the cultural middle, cultural right, and cultural left. Sample explores the characteristics of people in each of these groups— their worldview and their needs as church members. His goal is to help mainline churches learn about and respond to the diverse groups that make up our society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664250997
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	05/01/1990
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	171
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tex Sample is Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of Ministry in an Oral Culture: Living with Will Rogers, Uncle Remus, and Minnie Pearl (WJK).

Editorial Reviews

This is an excellent, comprehensive study of change and diversity in American lifestyles, their major groupings (left, right, middle), how the mainline churches can minister to each group, and the predominant theological style appealing to each. Sample maintains the firm conviction that Christ is already in all these cultures, transforming them, yet he also delineates practical strategies for churches and their ministers. Much of this book could be of use to Roman Catholics as well.

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