Identity Keystones:: What Makes Us Foursquare - Softcover

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Ninety years ago, in 1927, the Foursquare Movement was birthed through the ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson. Based on her historical context and what was accepted by the church culture at the time, Sister Aimee was clearly a phenomena. Regardless of the cultural and theological restraints placed upon her, she pursued her task. “What is my task?” she asked rhetorically. “To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl.” Through her unique, pioneering style she trained up missionaries and sent out church planters across the United States and into several countries. Today the Foursquare Church is in over 150 nations and numbers over 75,000 churches. The “Identity Keystones” of the Foursquare Church as a movement are as unique as its founder. By applying principles of organization identity theory Sam Rockwell identified five “domains of expertise” of the Foursquare Church. These are: Integrated Mission, Women in Senior Leadership, Pentecostal Ethos, Indigenous Empowerment, and Moderation/Middle of the Road Policy. A group of contributors have partnered with Rockwell to cover each of the domains and to bring application to ministers of the Foursquare Gospel. As Rockwell states in his introduction, “As we respond to a postmodern landscape and a post-Christian culture in the United States, it is more urgent than ever to consider how the Foursquare identity uniquely prepares us for this emerging and challenging era ahead…The aspects of ‘who we are’ and ‘what we do’ are more relevant than ever.”

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