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ISSN: 1082-037X The Road to the Future The signs are everywhere – from the spectacular success of “Chant,” an album featuring Gregorian chants sung for more than a millenium, to the mass appeal of Taize, a monastic group based in France that sponsors ecumenical services featuring chant, liturgical prayer and candlelight vigils. The search for authentic spirituality among Generation X is leading – among other places – to the treasures offered by the confessional traditions of the Reformation, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism. This conference will appropriate the riches of the past in developing authentic worship for the postmodern movement. runs through the past. “The True & the Beautiful” a new generation at worship San Francisco June 20 - 22, 1997 a conference sponsored by Re:generation Quarterly and Leadership Network Come experience worship from the Reformed, Orthodox, and Catholic traditions ■ Find out what the popularity of ‘spirituality’’ in pop music means for the church ■ Enjoy workshops on everything from Gregorian Chant toIconography ■ Listen to Sacred Jazz FEATURED SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE FR. MARK BROSKI, St. Benedict (Catholic) Monastery, Virginia ■ ANDY CROUCH, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Harvard University ■ BILL HALEY, The Falls Church (Episcopal), Virginia FR. JONAH PAFFHAUSEN, St. Eugene (Orthodox) Hermitage, California REV. SCOT SHERMAN, The Village Church (PCA), New York BRAD WILCOX, Re:generation QuarterLY REGISTRATION (INCLUDING FOOD, HOUSING AND CONFERENCE COSTS) WILL BE $190.00 DOUBLE ROOM, $230 SINGLE ROOM, OR $150 COMMUTER RATE (NO HOUSING). FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT LINDA STANLEY AT LEADERSHIP NETWORK AT 1-800-765-5323. 12 NEXT is a publication of Leadership Network. Permission to reproduce material in NEXT may be obtained by calling, faxing, or writing Leadership Network. Phone: 1-800-765-5323 inside the U.S., or (903) 561-0437 outside the U.S. FAX: (903) 561-9361 Web Site: http://www.leadnet.org/ Mailing Address: L E A D E R S H I P N E T W O R K P. O. Box 199277 Dallas, Texas 75219-9277 Leadership Networ ork k is moving to Dallas! While our 800 telephone number will remain the same, please make a note of our new address as of June J 1, 1997: LEADERSHIP NETWORK P.O. Box 199277 Dallas, TX 75219-9277 1-800-765-5323 NEXT is printed on 50-percent recycled paper with 30-percent post-consumer waste using 100-percent soy-based inks.
“A revolution is transforming American Protestantism.” So begins an important new book by Donald E. Miller that chronicles the emergence of a “new paradigm of church” at the close of the twentieth century in America. Based on five years of research and interviews with pastors and church members across the country, the book provides insight into this new type of church and its response to people’s search for spiritual meaning and significance. We thank Miller and the University of California Press for the use of excerpts from the book and commend it to the readers of NEXT. THE STAFF OF LEADERSHIP NETWORK INSIDE NEXT COVER STORY REINVENTING AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM ■ A HALF TIME GAME PLAN - AN INTERVIEW WITH BOB BUFORD - (page 4-5) ■ NEW RULES FOR A NEW ECONOMY (page 6-9) ■ LEADERSHIP NETWORK RECOMMENDS (page 10-11) ■ LEADERSHIP NETWORK WEB SITE (page 11) ■ WEB.WATCH (page 12) ■ THE BOOKSHELF (page 13) ■ NETFAX (page 14) ■ LEADERSHIP NETWORK FORUMS (page 15) ■ NEW LEADERSHIP NETWORK STAFF (page 16) V O L U M E 3 , N U M B E R 2 N O V E M B E R , 1 9 9 7 F R O M L E A D E R S H I P N E T W O R K REINVENTING AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM— Christianity in the New Millennium by Donald E. Miller Arevolution is transforming American Protestantism. While many of the mainline churches are losing membership, overall church attendance is not declining. Instead, a new style of Christianity is being born in the United States, one that responds to fundamental cultural changes that began in the mid-1960’s. These new paradigm churches, as I call them, are changing the way Christianity looks and is experienced. Like upstart religious groups of the past, they have discarded many of the attributes of established religion. Appropriating contemporary cultural forms, these churches are creating a new genre of worship music; they are restructuring the organizational character of institutional religion; and they are democratizing access to the sacred by radicalizing the Protestant principle of the priesthood of all believers. The new paradigm can be found in many places. One of its most typical sites is within the numerous independent churches that have proliferated in recent years. These churches are contributing to what has been called a new era of postdenominational Christianity in America, reflecting a general disillusionment with bureaucratic hierarchies and organizational oversight. Other new paradigm churches remain within existing denominations, but their worship and organizational style differ decidedly from those of the more institutionalized churches in their denominations. Indeed, some of these new paradigm churches disguise the fact that they even have a denominational affiliation. Included in my definition of new paradigm churches are “seekersensitive” churches, such as Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago or Saddleback Community Church in southern California. These churches are attempting to design worship services that appeal to those who do not usually attend church. I also want to include in the ranks of the new paradigm a growing movement of churches that identify themselves as part of “apostolic networks.” These churches model Professor of Religion Donald E. Miller at a service at Hope Chapel in Hermosa Beach, California; Photo by Irene Fertik, University of Southern California News Service their organizational structure after the religious leadership described in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles. It is not particularly helpful, in my view, to use such theological terms as evangelical or fundamentalist to describe these changes in American Protestantism. Even categories such as charismatic and Pentecostal are too broad to capture the distinctive character of the revolution described in this book, although many new paradigm churches do embrace the gifts of the spirit. Nor do I find the terminology of religious “culture wars” continued on page 2
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