2006
J. Parker Jameson
A Community in Christ and Christ to the World: Imagining Adult Formation for St. Luke’s on the Lake Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas
How adult Christian education can be used in the development of a small corporate-sized congregation is the main focus of this paper. Ancillary foci include the issues of progression and always beginning in the spiritual life and of the dialectical relationship between the institutional journey and the personal journey. Drawing on three streams of research – Christian tradition (primarily scripture and the history of spirituality), the social sciences (the religious instruction macro-theory of James Michael Lee and the faith development theory of James W. Fowler), and in congregations (both St. Luke’s on the Lake Episcopal Church and neighboring congregations in Austin, Texas) – the author creates a vision for developing the adult Christian education ministry at St. Luke’s on the Lake Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas.