The Formative Power of Your Congregation

Name: The Formative Power of Your Congregation
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Faith and Human Development

By: Christina Jones Davis, Tim Shapiro

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Paperback | 30 December 2024

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The formative power of a congregation serves as a primary catalyst for human development. A congregation also forms a person's life. Congregations are often well-versed in matters of Christian formation and spiritual maturation. But what about how human beings develop as people? Insights from human development, also known as developmental psychology, provide an additional lens through which one can understand how humans are formed throughout life. Working with 30 congregations, the authors developed learning experiences, presented here as case studies, so that participants designed experiences that support human development at the intersection of congregational practices and various aspects of life (parenting, social justice, vocation, the arts, and more). Participating congregations extended beyond the volunteer-based organization to be one of the primary places where people learned to be more human using the simple yet multi-dimensioned phrase. The Formative Power of Your Congregation is written for clergy and laity who long for a congregation that supports human flourishing as much or more than the growth or existence of the church. We will introduce you to a framework of how congregations participate in the development of human beings. Furthermore, you will be introduced to particular congregations that, applying the framework, support participant growth in eight markers that support the flourishing of a person's life. Moving churches from a loose volunteer association, you will learn how your congregation can form people in lives of meaning and purpose.

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Christina Davis and Tim Shapiro have developed a rich, hands-on, and comprehensive curriculum that is ensured to enliven congregational life. Their qualitative research is both a resource and model that honors the voices within the congregation while inspiring the community in which they are embedded. They have embraced the mutuality of the message they bring, saying, "We shape the places we inhabit, and such places shape us."

--Gil Stafford, author of When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet

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