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Author: Barry E. Winders
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1602668175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinders offers a spiritual path to congregations and pastors that leads to reclaiming a warm affection for Christ from which to develop ministry that is genuinely gracious, honestly loving, and eminently relevant to a world that has grown sore with cynicism. (Practical Life)
Author: Craig Van Gelder
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1441232060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, two leading ministry experts place the missional church conversation in historical perspective and offer fresh insights for its further development. They begin by providing a helpful review of the genesis of the missional church and offering an insightful critique of the Gospel and Our Culture Network's seminal book Missional Church, which set the conversation in motion. They map the diverse paths this discussion has taken over the past decade, identifying four primary branches and ten sub-branches of the conversation and placing over one hundred published titles and websites into this framework. The authors then utilize recent developments in biblical and theological perspectives to strengthen and extend the conversation about missional theology, the church's interaction with culture and cultures, and church organization and leadership in relation to the formation of believers as disciples. Professors, students, and church leaders will value this comprehensive overview of the missional movement. It includes a foreword by Alan J. Roxburgh.
Author: Lois Barrett
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1998-02-09
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780802843500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Alan J. Roxburgh, and Craig Van Gelder. The result of a three-year research project undertaken by The Gospel and Our Culture Network, this book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America, while also offering the tools to help it do so. The authors examine North America s secular culture and the church s loss of dominance in today s society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the church s missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.
Author: Michael W. Goheen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1441214461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. Michael Goheen, a dynamic speaker and the coauthor of two popular texts on the biblical narrative, unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story. Goheen shows that the church's identity can be understood only when its role is articulated in the context of the whole biblical story--not just the New Testament, but the Old Testament as well. He also explores practical outworkings and implications, offering field-tested suggestions for contemporary churches.
Author: Alan J. Roxburgh
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1441214593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe burgeoning missional church movement is a sign that believers are increasingly feeling the call to impact their communities, which is a good thing. But, says Alan J. Roxburgh, these conversations still prioritize church success over mission--how can being missional grow my church? But to focus on such questions misses the point. In Missional, Roxburgh calls Christians to reenter their neighborhoods and communities to discover what the Spirit is doing there--to start with God's mission. He then encourages readers to shape their local churches around that mission. With inspiring true stories and a solid biblical base, Missional is a book that will change lives and communities as its message is lived out.
Author: Ed Stetzer
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1596692278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrusted missionologist Stetzer and pastor Nation challenge readers to look at love within the context of God, the church, and the lives of individual believers. They provide a basic theological grounding and a platform for personal application of missional living--simply the calling to love others.
Author: Jeremiah Gibbs
Publisher: Wesley's Foundery Books
Published: 2020-04-29
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781945935756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA step-by-step guide for hearing and claiming God's calling for your life. For students, youth and young adult pastors, counselors, chaplains, and campus ministers to help students find clarity about how God has uniquely gifted them to participate in God's ongoing mission for the sake of the world. T
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 143353486X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is no ordinary missions book. The theme isn't new, but the approach is refreshing and compelling, as contributors David Platt, Louie Giglio, Michael Ramsden, Ed Stetzer, Michael Oh, David Mathis, and John Piper take up the mantle of the Great Commission and its Spirit-powered completion. From astronomy to exegesis, from apologetics to the Global South, from being missional at home to employing our resources in the global cause, Finish the Mission aims to breathe fresh missionary fire into a new generation, as together we seek to reach the unreached and engage the unengaged.
Author: David J. Bosch
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1608331466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"David Bosch's Transforming Mission, now available in over a dozen languages, is widely recognized as an historic and magisterial contribution to the study of mission. Examining the entire sweep of Christian tradition, he shows how five paradigms have historically encapsulated the Christian understanding of mission and then outlines the characteristics of an emerging postmodern paradigm dialectically linking the transcendent and imminent dimensions of salvation. In this new anniversary edition, Darrel Guder and Martin Reppenhagen explore the impact of Bosch s work and the unfolding application of his seminal vision." --
Author: Craig Van Gelder
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0801039134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo ministry experts map the variety of missional church visions over the past decade, opening up new horizons for extending the conversation biblically and theologically.
