What happens when Christian formation enters an actual place? In The Living Library in Practice, Will Bourne carries seeing, listening, discerning, loving, walking, and multiplying into the settings people share.
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The Living Library Curriculum · Volume 5 of 6 · Catalog 43305
The Living Library in Practice
Carrying the Way of Christ into the Places We Share
What happens when Christian formation enters an actual place?
Bourne Again Living Library · Catalog 43305
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What happens when Christian formation enters an actual place? In The Living Library in Practice, Will Bourne carries seeing, listening, discerning, loving, walking, and multiplying into the settings people share. The book helps readers attend to history, power, role, participation, consent, privacy, accessibility, safeguarding, responsibility, repair, and release while keeping Jesus Christ as the source, substance, Lord, and correcting center of every practice.
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- What gave rise to The Living Library in Practice?
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- How does this volume follow Apprenticing Ourselves to Jesus without merely repeating it?
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Will Bourne discusses why this book was written, the questions it addresses, and the formation he hopes it serves.
Read the Written Interview →ARTICLE MOVEMENTStart Here: Identity and Formation
Introduces Will’s writing, the Bourne Again language, Christian formation, the Living Library, and the distinction between Media and Lifestyle.
Explore this article movement →ARTICLE MOVEMENTBecoming in Ordinary Life
Moves from foundational language into habits, patience, grace, abiding, Scripture, and everyday discipleship.
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