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Author: Sam Metcalf
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2015-09-25
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0830898891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGod is raising up vibrant missional movements of Christians in a vast array of vocations: disciple-making ministries, missions, social activism and much more. Mission leader Sam Metcalf gives biblical and missiological foundations for these "parachurch" movements as strategic ways to live for the kingdom—in venues beyond the local church.
Author: Robert E. Logan
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1441236716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on God's vision for churches in Matthew 28:18-20, this book presents sound methods for making disciples, winning the lost for Christ, and planting new churches.
Author: Jason C. Dukes
Publisher: New Hope Publishers (AL)
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596693456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book by pastor Jason C. Dukes, explore unity and discover how it can become part of the DNA of your local church.
Author: Charles E. Van Engen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 1991-09
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0801093112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA world-claiming theology of the church draws on ancient and modern thoughts. The author focuses on how the church can grow to become in reality "God's missionary people."
Author: Mark DeYmaz
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0310321239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this Leadership Network Innovation series book, Ethnic Blends, Mark DeYmaz will help you navigate seven common challenges in building a healthy multi-ethnic church. The rise of multi-ethnic churches could become the new Reformation in this century. Yet the movement is in a pioneer stage, and there have been few road maps ... until now.
Author: Ligon Duncan
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2006-01-17
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1433518236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Hunt and Ligon Duncan walk through the Scriptures to help readers better understand what it means to have an effective, biblical women's ministry in the church. The benefits of women's ministries are great: training and discipling, evangelizing, and reaching out to the poor and needy. This book, written by seasoned ministry leaders, provides many proven tools to help start a women's ministry in your church.
Author: Jackson W. Carroll
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780664253967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel, cultural approach to studying mainline denominations. Focusing on each denomination's religious and moral vision--the beliefs, values, symbols, and style that makes it distinct--this book features contributions from a variety of authors, historians, scholars, educators, anthropologists, and liturgists.
Author: Philip E. Thompson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1597527858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecycling the Past or Researching History? brings together an international group of Baptist scholars who explore various issues in Baptist historiography and myths. Contributors examine and re-examine areas of Baptist life and thought about which either little is known or the received wisdom is in need of revision. Historiographical studies include the date Oxford Baptists joined the Abingdon Association, the death of the Fifth Monarchist John Pendarves, eighteenth-century Calvinistic Baptists and the political realm, confessional identity and denominational institutions, Baptist community, ecclesiology, the priesthood of all believers, soteriology, Baptist spirituality, Strict and Reformed Baptists, the role of women among British Baptists, while various myths challenged include the nature of high-Calvinism in eighteenth-century England, baptismal anti-sacramentalism, episcopacy, and Baptists and change. The common theme tying these studies together is that research into Baptist history should deal with the primary sources and not, as has too often been the case, rely uncritically on the scholarship of previous generations.
Author: Gene A. Getz
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2024-10-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0802473237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timeless classic for solid grounding and renewal. Is your church adrift? Many churches are struggling to stay focused—to stay on point and hold fast to gospel essentials. Competing voices threaten to divide rather than unite and grow the church. In Sharpening the Focus of the Church, Dr. Gene Getz has written a classic, insightful, biblical treatise on church renewal. Getz focuses on New Testament principles as applied to the unique needs of contemporary culture and roots readers in the perspective of the history of the church. Discover how to sharpen your church’s focus through the lenses of Scripture, church history, and present-day needs. As you embark on this in-depth study of New Testament teaching, you will experience the power of the Word and the power of the Spirit transforming your church from the inside out. You’ll find positive, biblical solutions to the problems facing the church today, with practical advice for finding solutions to contemporary questions.
Author: Jeffrey W. Cary
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-11-05
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1610976371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThose within the free church tradition have often appealed to the notion of the invisible church to account for the unity of the Body of Christ. A growing number of free church theologians, however, are giving increased attention to the importance of visible ecclesial unity, which immediately raises the perennial problem of the authorities by which unity is maintained. There is also a growing recognition among free church theologians of the need to recognize the authority of tradition in tandem with the authority of Scripture. In this book, Cary affirms these recent developments but then inquires whether a turn toward visible unity, together with an embrace of the authority of tradition, can eventually be coherent without also embracing the authority of an extra-congregational teaching office. To guide his study, Cary engages the work of two theologians from outside the free church tradition: Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams. He then brings them into contact with the prominent free church theologian James McClendon in order to supplement some of the deficiencies Cary perceives in McClendon's groundbreaking work. Once these deficiencies are addressed, however, the question intensifies whether the free church tradition, as such, can remain a coherent ecclesial option over time.
