Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society.
To do this, she places the questions of the church\'s identity and mission into a.
To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purposewhat churches "do"but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they areto reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of themselves.
Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society