First Expressions

<p>Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood <em>First Expressions</em> offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions.<br /><br />Presenting the lived practice of the church in mission through a longitudinal lens and eschewing the rose-tinted approach it considers the reality of emerging churches - their birth and death their creativity and conflict their dreams and despair. A picture of a church that is neither gathered and parish nor independent and networked emerges as the biographies of mission are brought into dialogue with a very ancient expression of mission the birth of Philippians as a first expression of church in Europe..</p>