Lifelong Faith BooksAll six of the Lifelong Faith books we have produced since 2014 are now available for free download.
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Reimagining Faith Formation for the 21st Century (published 2015)
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Reimagining Faith Formation (2015) is a proposal for what twenty-first century faith formation can look like. This book is a “how to” for twenty-first century faith formation: How to build a new faith-forming ecosystem that supports religious transmission and faith growth? How to design new models with the best understandings and practices of learning and faith formation? How to engage all people—wherever they may be on their spiritual journey? Chapters include:
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Faith Formation with the New Generation (published 2018)
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Faith Formation with a New Generation is written as a proposal for the future of faith formation with children and adolescents. It is a proposal to transform the way to envision and design faith formation. It reflects a more holistic and comprehensive approach to faith formation grounded in the best understanding of the key factors that contribute to growth in faith and discipleship in the first two decades of life and build a solid foundation for a lifelong faith.
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Families at the Center of Faith Formation (published 2016)
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We know that parents and the family are the most powerful influence for virtually every child and youth outcome—personal, academic, social, and spiritual-religious; and that parents are the most important influence on the social and religious lives of children, youth, and emerging adults. Families at the Center of Faith Formation proposes a new comprehensive approach to family faith formation that places families at the center of faith formationand develops the family as a community of faith and school of discipleship while equipping parents (and grandparents) to transmit the Christian faith at home. Families at the Center of Faith Formation includes seven chapters rich in foundational insights and practical application:
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The Seasons of Adult Faith Formation (published 2015)
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The Seasons of Adult Faith Formation provides leaders with a deeper understanding of adulthood today, a vision of twenty-first century adult faith formation, and the tools and processes for designing faith formation for all the seasons of adulthood. The book’s chapters include:
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Generations Together (published 2014)
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Faith is transmitted from generation to generation in extended families and intergenerational congregations. Every congregation can discover its intergenerational heart and soul, and become an intentionally intergenerational community that nurtures the faith of all ages and equips them for living as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today.
When a congregation commits itself to building a culture of intergenerationality through its congregational life of caring, celebrating, learning, praying, and serving, each element becomes a sign of and instrument for the full experience of the Body of Christ by all ages and generations. Generations Together guides leaders in learning what this vision looks like in practice, and how to guide a congregation in envisioning and designing projects and initiatives to become more intentionally intergenerational.
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Faith Formation 2020 (published 2010)
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Faith Formation 2020: Designing the Future of Faith Formation (published in 2010) is designed to guide your church in envisioning and designing dynamic, engaging and inspiring faith formation in the second decade of the 21st century—to imagine the possibilities for faith formation in 2020. The new environment in which Christian faith formation operates today requires new thinking, models, practices, resources, and technologies to address the spiritual and religious needs of all ages, families, and generations. Designing the Future of Faith Formation presents the knowledge and tools for envisioning the future in your church, for utilizing practices and strategies for bringing the future to life in your church, and for developing your capacities for leading faith formation into the future.
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