Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century George Keller Other titles in the series

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Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century George Keller Other titles in the seriesMany congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purposewhat churches "do"but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they areto reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves. To do this, she places the questions of the