Mark Read

Surfanthood (eBook, ePUB)

Learning to Serve by Learning to Surf

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Surfanthood explores a simple analogy expanding the experiences of early ministry. The analogy goes like this: The waves are God's activity in the world. The surfer is us. The board is our activity/ministry/service. At best our activities, and boards, join with God's activity, the waves, to create something joyful, wondrous, and exciting. We submit to the wave and experience something beautiful. At worst we can wrestle and struggle, becoming increasingly tired, frustrated, and pained by what is happening until eventually the inevitable occurs; we get really hurt or we get out. A new possibility centers on five postures that servants adopt: They are non-professional, non-commercial, non-prescriptive, non-evangelical, and non-authoritative. Each chapter begins with a reality of surfing that finds a parallel in ministry. This reality gives a lens to explore an episode within Luke's Gospel which, as a complete Gospel, explores the question "How do I mature in service?" and then reflects on where we see the postures of surfanthood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666715859
• Artikelnr.: 62587237

Autorenporträt

Mark studied Fine Art Painting at University of the Arts London (Camberwell School of Art) before gaining a post-graduate certificate in education at the Institute of Education.
Subsequently he has completed ministerial training and a Masters in Education and Social Justice at University College London.
He has worked as a church leader for 9 years maintaining a focus on social justice within his ministry.
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