Description:
Signs of Life offers a clear-eyed exploration of the challenges facing congregations and invites us, in response, to take up those practices known to awaken spiritual vitality. These best practice principles--signs of life--have been proven across fifteen years of work with over four hundred congregations.
Building on the experiential wisdom of RenewalWorks, this book is free from any illusion of a quick fix or that change will come from programmatic solutions. Instead, Signs of Life uncovers the chief catalysts of spiritual growth and unfolds the concrete practices that build among our leaders and in our congregations the culture of discipleship. Renewal works, and it can be found in these pages.
Expanded second edition includes updated perspectives from RenewalWorks, a "Quick Start" guide to help congregations get moving, and a comprehensive eight session small group study guide.
Brief description: Jay Sidebotham, now retired, served as a priest in The Episcopal Church for more than thirty years. He resides in Wilmington, NC, where he pursues his vocation as an artist.
Review Quotes: Having blessed us all for years with his wit and wisdom, priest and author Jay Sidebotham now offers a dose of hope for the Church, mixed with pragmatic spiritual practices that makes this a must-read for all those who take seriously the challenge to live out Jesus's Way of Love in an increasingly complex reality. Thank you, Jay, for offering a way forward. --The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times