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Gideon`s Gang: A Case Study Of The Church In Social Action

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Acknowledgments

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CHAPTER 1 "A Groovy Trip While It Lasted"

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CHAPTER 2 Crucible of Crisis:

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CHAPTER 3 In the Beginning: The Genesis of the Congregation

Calling a Pastor

Passive Resistance to Early Organizational Efforts

. . . And Ask Questions Later: Instant Action Without Organization

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. . . And Now You Come at Noon: Organizational Postponement Analyzed

Getting Their Thing Together: Internal Dissension over Goals

The Providential Loophole: Union Church

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CHAPTER 4 Parental Disappointment: The Problem of Goals

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CHAPTER 5 At War with the Angels: The United People Campaign

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CHAPTER 6 Gideon's Gang Marches Again: The Gulf Boycott

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CHAPTER 7 The Question of Strategy: Conflict in Context

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CHAPTER 8 Organizational Imperatives: The Internal Dynamics of the Congregation

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CHAPTER 9 Successful in Life: The Cincinnati Experiment

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CHAPTER 10 Toughing Out the Storm

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CHAPTER 11 Quo Vadis: Whither Liberal Protestantism?

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Footnotes

[2]

Donald L. Metz, New Congregations; Security and Mission in Conflict (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967).

[3]

"Strategies for the Development of New Congregations," Board of National Missions, The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Sept. 1967), p. 6. Used by permission.

[4]

For partial documentation of this point see Jeffrey K. Hadden, The Gathering Storm in the Churches (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969), chapter 5.