Reconnecting the Church

Advancing the Ministry of the Church in Complex Culture

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Dr. Tim Kauffman: J. Timothy Kauffman, Ph.D. Pastor, urban church planter West Berlin, and Frankfurt, Germany. Ph.D. in Inter-Cultural Studies. Adjunct at APU Graduate School of Theology and Gordon Conwell Seminary. Senior pastor of the Nazarene Church in Cambridge, MA, a 5-church multi-congregational community. Published "Reconnecting the Church: Finding Our Place in Complex Culture." He and Mary-Esther, his wife, reside in Tucson, AZ.

Chart - Niebuhr's "Christ in Culture"

For more information and practical projects you can do to discover the make-up of the complex culture in your community, I would refer y...
Men's Ministry Questionnaire

This survey is one of many possibilities. This one is for a men’s ministry. They can also be constructed for specific needs in the community...
Alexis De Tocqueville

In his two volume book, Democracy in America, around 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville made the following statement, “Individualism at firs...
Proxemics -- How We Use Space

By Jill Bremer, AICI, CIP Bremer Communications There are three ways in which we communicate with others - verbally, in written for...
Complex Culture and Set Theory - Bounded Sets

In this post we will be looking at bounded sets, [1] the first of three sets we will be examining. The question we are asking is, “What...
Renewing Dying Congregations

We are experiencing a season in which a larger number of churches are being closed. With a few exceptions, local churches and denominations,...
Key Characteristics of an Effective Leader
Complex Culture and Set Theory - Intrinsic Fuzzy Sets

We are examining the more controversial fuzzy set [1] and how it relates to the welcome into the church. In 1965, Lofti Asker Zadeh, ...
Jacob Loewen's Insider-Outsider Model

Another aspect of dealing with “Same—Other” can be understood in how others perceive us. This concern is particularly significant for the Ch...

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