One Assembly
One Assembly

Author: Jonathan Leeman

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2020-03-26

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1433559625

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Many churches are switching to the multisite or multiservice models to manage crowded sanctuaries due to growing attendance. This solution seems sensible in the short term, but too often churches adopt this model without taking into consideration what the Bible says about it. Illuminating the importance of physical togetherness as a way to protect the gospel, this book argues that maintaining a single assembly best embodies the unity the church possesses in Jesus Christ. Jonathan Leeman considers a series of biblical, theological, and pastoral arguments that ask us to stop and examine intuitions or assumptions about what a church is. He reorients our minds to a biblical definition of church, offering examples of churches that have thrived with a single service at a single site and compelling alternatives for those looking to solve the complications that come with a growing church.

Christians at the Border
Christians at the Border

Author: M. Daniel Carroll R.

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 080103566X

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Hispanic Old Testament scholar Daniel Carroll brings biblical theology to bear creatively on the current immigration conversation with an eye to correcting assumptions on both sides of the issue.

Welcoming the Stranger
Welcoming the Stranger

Author: Matthew Soerens

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0830885552

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World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.

Welcoming the Stranger Among Us
Welcoming the Stranger Among Us

Author: Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Publisher: USCCB Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781574553758

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Designed for both ordained and lay ministers at the diocesan and parish levels, this document challenges us to prepare to receive newcomers with a genuine spirit of welcome.

The God Who Sees
The God Who Sees

Author: Karen González

Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1513804146

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Meet people who have fled their homelands. Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus. Here is a riveting story of seeking safety in another land. Here is a gripping journey of loss, alienation, and belonging. In The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen Gonzalez recounts her family’s migration from the instability of Guatemala to making a new life in Los Angeles and the suburbs of south Florida. In the midst of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the tremendous pressure to assimilate, Gonzalez encounters Christ through a campus ministry program and begins to follow him. Here, too, is the sweeping epic of immigrants and refugees in Scripture. Abraham, Hagar, Joseph, Ruth: these intrepid heroes of the faith cross borders and seek refuge. As witnesses to God’s liberating power, they name the God they see at work, and they become grafted onto God’s family tree. Find resources for welcoming immigrants in your community and speaking out about an outdated immigration system. Find the power of Jesus, a refugee Savior who calls us to become citizens in a country not of this world.

African Immigrant Religions in America
African Immigrant Religions in America

Author: Jacob Olupona

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2007-05-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0814762409

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African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia. African Immigrant Religions in America focuses on new understandings and insights concerning the presence and relevance of African immigrant religious communities in the United States. It explores the profound significance of religion in the lives of immigrants and the relevance of these growing communities for U.S. social life. It describes key social and historical aspects of African immigrant religion in the U.S. and builds a conceptual framework for theory and analysis. The volume broadens our understandings of the ways in which new immigration is changing the face of Christianity in the U.S. and adds needed breadth to the study of the black church, incorporating the experiences of African immigrant religious communities in America.

God and the Illegal Alien
God and the Illegal Alien

Author: Robert W. Heimburger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 110717662X

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A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Immigration and Faith
Immigration and Faith

Author: Hoover, Brett C.

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1587688697

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Immigration and Faith is a comprehensive textbook for theology and religious studies courses that addresses migration to and within the United States and beyond.

Gatherings In Diaspora
Gatherings In Diaspora

Author: Stephen Warner

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1998-04-23

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 156639614X

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Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.