Mosaic
A Journey Across the Church of God
ABOUT THE BOOK
Does a reformation movement born in the nineteenth century still have a future? Beginning at the cemetery where his great-grandfather is buried, Patrick Nachtigall sets out on journey to see how the Church of God is facing 6 critical challenges. From a mega-church in the flatlands of the Midwest, to an isolated church in Siberia, to the Philippines where pastors deal with the challenge of Pentecostal growth, to the Middle East where a former Al-Qaeda member converts to Christianity, Patrick treks to six different continents to talk with Church of God people. He seeks to understand the realities and challenges that Christian denominations face in the 21st century.
Here is a picture of a very diverse movement where some congregations exist in a traditional Christendom world, others in a post-Christendom world, and yet others in a pre-Christendom Book of Acts world. Patrick finds that the Church of God is a movement filled with holiness, but desperately lacking in unity. The future is an open question, and the book concludes with the core issues that the Church of God will have to wrestle with in order to survive another century.
Mosaic is for anyone of any Christian denomination that wants to understand the global macro- trends that affect not only the Church of God, but the entire Christian church worldwide.
