Down we go
Subtitle: living into the wild ways of Jesus
By: Kathy Escobar
Publisher: Civitas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Folsom, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780615467900
Subjects: Christian life; Missional church movement; Beatitudes
Description: Publisher's description: Down We Go is a practioner's guide for creating and cultivating missional community. It's based on the idea of living into the Beatitudes, and explores what it means to follow Jesus into the hard places of suffering, inequality, and injustice in order to cultivate, hope, beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-275).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: SECTION ONE: DOWNWARD MOBILITY : 1. It stinks down here but I really love the smell; title: 2. Dreams are much prettier when they are just dreams; title: 3. There is no "them or us"... only us; title: 4. "The Kingdom isn't just going to drop out of the sky"; title: SECTION TWO: CREATING LIFE DOWN HERE : 5. Extending love, mercy and compassion; title: 6. Welcoming pain; title: 7. Honoring doubt; title: 8. Diffusing power; title: 9. Practicing equality; title: 10. Pursuing justice; title: 11. Cultivating creativity; title: 12. Celebrating freedom; title: SECTION THREE: STAYING THE COURSE : 13. Beautiful and hazardous; title: 14. We may look like losers; title: 15. We may be crazy but we're not alone; title: 16. Born again and again; title: Suggested resources.