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" It's a different world! : "
Lyle E. Schaller.
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BL
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951183
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b705553
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| Main Entry
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Schaller, Lyle E.
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It's a different world! : : the challenge for today's pastor /\ Lyle E. Schaller.
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| Publication Statement
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Nashville :: Abingdon Press,, ©1987.
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239 pages ;; 22 cm
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0687197295
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: 9780687197293
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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1. It is harder today! -- The mobile member -- Other changes -- 2. The sunny side of the street -- May 15, 1984 -- Where there is hope -- We are living longer -- The air is cleaner -- Mainstreaming can work! -- Elderly no longer means poor -- That remarkable job machine! -- Why is good news neglected? -- 3. From mainline to nondenominational -- The eighteenth century scene -- The circuit rider and the farmer preacher -- Broadening the base -- What are the implications? -- Where are the men? -- Influences in the political arena -- Where are my children? -- The southern California subculture -- Why the decline? -- Searchers, pilgrims, and converts -- The decreasing proportion of Anglos -- Who is organizing new congregations? -- The growing number of "Nones" -- Growing old together -- The catholic to protestant migration -- The reemergence of the independent entrepreneur -- Stresses and choices -- 4. What is the liberal position? -- Public schools or non public schools? -- What are the alternatives? -- What is the issue? -- The church growth dimension -- Who attends? -- Which side appeals to you? -- From obligations to adversaries -- The churches follow the trend -- What follows success? -- The emergence of adversarial relationships -- Consequences and questions -- The big issue.
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5. The new majority -- The significance of 1944 -- A decade of radical change -- Who went to work? -- What else changed? -- A return to the good old days -- Where's my husband? -- Separating marriage and motherhood -- Motherhood vs. feminism -- The changing roles of women -- The feminization of the churches -- What happened to the next baby boom? -- What do you count? -- Who will care for the kids? -- Questions to be asked -- Questions on subsidies -- What about men? -- 6. The twenty nine year old grandmother -- What are the implications? -- What has not worked? -- What might work? -- 7. From vocation to profession? -- The emergence of the paraprofessional -- A new approach to staffing the churches -- What does it mean? -- 8. From doorbell to mailbox -- What happened? -- Three other factors -- What are the implications? -- Four cautions -- 9. A world filled with choices -- Where do you belong? -- The complexity of the weekly schedule -- "That sermon didn't speak to me" -- From missions to study and choices -- What happened to our singles group? -- How do you organize the Sunday school? -- What happened to the unified budget? -- The cost of choices.
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Clergy-- Office.
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Clergy-- Office.
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Manners and customs.
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United States, Church history, 20th century.
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United States, Social life and customs, 1971-
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United States.
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253
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BV660.2.S33 1987
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