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Dwight J. Friesen inspires hope for a more connective vision of life with God and shows how to maximize already existing connections between people in order to spread the gospel, get people plugged in at your church, and grow together as disciples.  
  
"A wonderful tutorial for those who want to experience the kingdom as more than a wistful idea."--Reggie McNeal, missional leadership specialist for Leadership Network   
  
"Friesen brings together current thinking on the Trinity, the kingdom of God, and missional church, and creates the first contextual ecclesiology for a networked world. Highly recommended."--Ryan Bolger, associate professor of Church in Contemporary Culture, Fuller Theological Seminary; co-author of Emerging Churches  
  
"A treasure chest of insights to further the conversation on the nature of the missional church in post-Christendom Western societies." --Eddie Gibbs, author of ChurchMorph; professor of church growth, Fuller Theological Seminary  
  
"A guide to harnessing the powerful possibilities of connections made available through social networks. You may never look at 'church' the same way again." --John R. Franke, Clemens Professor of Missional Theology, Biblical Seminary; author of Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth  
  
"Helps us see how connection is at the core of the gospel. I recommend it to all Christians emerging in this inescapable cultural reality." --David Fitch, B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology, Northern Seminary  
  
  
Dwight J. Friesen is associate professor of practical theology at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle. He was the founding pastor of Quest: A Christ-Commons in Bellevue, Washington, where he lives with his family.

Dwight J. Friesen (DMin, George Fox University) is assistant professor of practical theology at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle. He was the founding pastor of Quest: A Christ-Commons in Bellevue, Washington, and lives in Seattle, Washington, with his family.

Networks are everywhere. From our roads to our relationships, from our food supply to our power grids, networks are an integral part of how we live. Similarly, our churches, denominations, and even the kingdom of God are networks. Knowing how networks function and how to work with rather than against them has enormous implications for how we do ministry.  
  
In Thy Kingdom Connected, Dwight J. Friesen brings the complex theories of networking to church leaders in easy-to-understand, practical ways. Rather than bemoaning the modern disintegration of things like authority and structure, Friesen inspires hope for a more connective vision of life with God. He shows those involved in ministry how they can maximize already existing connections between people in order to spread the Gospel, get people plugged in at their churches, and grow together as disciples.

Friesen shows how to maximize existing connections between people in order to spread the Gospel, get people plugged in at their churches, and grow together as disciples.

Friesen, Dwight J.

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Cluster One: Seeing Connectively 

Foreword: Let There be Links

Preface: One Pastor's Quest for a More Connective Way

Introduction: Improving Our Connective Sight by Readjusting Our Lenses

Cluster Two: God’s Networked Kingdom 

1. The Networked Kingdom: Harnessing the Power of Social Networks

2. Links: Different Kinds of Relationships and Why they Matter

3. Nodes: Unleashing the Networked Person

Cluster Three: Leading that Connects 

4. Connective Leaders: The Parable of Google

5. Leading Connectively: How Chaordic Life Reorients Leading

Cluster Four: Networked Church 

6. Christ-Commons: Reimagining the Body of the Institutional Church

7. Christ-Clusters: Reimagining the Soul of the Local Church

Cluster Five: Connective Practices 

8. Missional And'ing: The Sneeze Effect and the Viral Gospel

9. Network Ecology: Caring for the Networks You are in

10. Weaving a Tapestry: Networking Spiritual Formation

Afterword: The Great Connection

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Acknowledgments 

Networks are everywhere. From our roads to our relationships, from our food supply to our power grids, networks are an integral part of how we live. Similarly, our churches, denominations, and even the kingdom of God are networks. Knowing how networks function and how to work with rather than against them has enormous implications for how we do ministry.  
  
InThy Kingdom Connected, Dwight J. Friesen brings the complex theories of networking to church leaders in easy-to-understand, practical ways. Rather than bemoaning the modern disintegration of things like authority and structure, Friesen inspires hope for a more connective vision of life with God. He shows those involved in ministry how they can maximize already existing connections between people in order to spread the Gospel, get people plugged in at their churches, and grow together as disciples.

Networks are everywhere. Similarly, our churches, denominations, and even the kingdom of God are networks. Knowing how networks function and how to work with rather than against them has enormous implications for how we do ministry. This book brings the complex theories of networking to church leaders in easy-to-understand, practical ways.

Networks are everywhere. From our roads to our relationships, from our food supply to our power grids, networks are an integral part of how we live. Similarly, our churches, denominations, and even the kingdom of God are networks. Knowing how networks function and how to work with rather than against them has enormous implications for how we do ministry. In "Thy Kingdom Connected", Dwight J. Friesen brings the complex theories of networking to church leaders in easy-to-understand, practical ways. Rather than bemoaning the modern disintegration of things like authority and structure, Friesen inspires hope for a more connective vision of life with God. He shows those involved in ministry how they can maximize already existing connections between people in order to spread the Gospel, get people plugged in at their churches, and grow together as disciples.

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This book looks at the theme of networked communities, however it does come with a bit of a warning because although Facebook is mentioned in the subtitle, isn't really about Facebook or social networking online, thats just a nice marketing play to make the book more appealing to a larger audience! Thy Kingdom Connected is really looking at Network Theory and relating this to how he, Friesen, believes the church should work. Network theory at it's most basic is an idea that has adherents in many fields of study and holds we are connected in all manner of ways by links, nodes and cluster groups. It's an interesting idea and so is the underlying content of this book, however it's not an easy book to wade through and has a very technical feel to it, being full of Venn and cluster link diagrams doesn't really help as it just adds to the feel of being some sort of science manual - though to be fair if I was more into science and/or liked visual cues then this book would have been more appealing and I can think of many who would like this book for those reasons. That said though if you want a book that really opens up the idea of the network theory and it's correlation to, connectivity to and implications for the church and what it could be, then this is that book and probably a very good one too as it does have some very interesting idea's of how things could work better and more intergratively across the church.

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Friesen brings together current thinking on the Trinity, the kingdom of God, and missional church, and creates the first contextual ecclesiology for a networked world. Highly recommended.

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