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Author: Michael Frost
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2014-02-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 083088405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe church is to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world, showing and telling the kingdom of God. But this incarnational mission is challenged by numerous "excarnational" forces, pulling us ever inward and selfward. In this prophetic cultural study missiologist Michael Frost helps us find our way back to the mission of God.
Author: Scot McKnight
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1441221476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Award-Winning Challenge to Popular Ideas of the Kingdom According to Scot McKnight, "kingdom" is the biblical term most misused by Christians today. It has taken on meanings that are completely at odds with what the Bible says and has become a buzzword for both social justice and redemption. In Kingdom Conspiracy, McKnight offers a sizzling biblical corrective and a fiercely radical vision for the role of the local church in the kingdom of God. Now in paper. Praise for Kingdom Conspiracy 2015 Outreach Resources of the Year Award Winner One of Leadership Journal's Best Books for Church Leaders in 2014 "This is a must-read for church leaders today."--Publishers Weekly "A timely resource for the missional church to reexamine some basic assumptions that impact church practice in the everyday."--Outreach
Author: Michael Frost
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1631468537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesus is different. Go and do likewise. Many Christians have become comfortable letting the world mold them instead of being set apart by God. And many churches have traded in their biblical roots for complacent conventionality. But Jesus and the church are anything but conventional. The hallmark of our faith is that it sees the world differently than the world sees itself. We are called to be eccentric—off center, unique, different; not conformed to the patterns of the world but transformed by the renewing of our minds. By the grace of God we are not only dissatisfied by sin but increasingly uncompelled by conventionality. So resist the allure of acceptability. Get back to the unsafe roots of our faith. Be equipped to surprise the world with the Good News it didn’t even know it was waiting for. Challenge the way things are by living a life that has been truly set free by Christ.
Author: Michael Frost
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1441241094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a time when the need for and the relevance of the Gospel has seldom been greater, the relevance of the church has seldom been less. The Shaping of Things to Come explores why the church needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up. Frost and Hirsch present a clear understanding of how the church can change to face the unique challenges of the twenty-first century. This missional classic has been thoroughly revised and updated.
Author: Michael Pears
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1842279157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first book in the series presents a thought-provoking foundation for contemporary mission. Drawing on key theological, missiological and social scientific ideas it discusses the fundamentals that provide a basis for place dependent, reflective praxis amongst people occupying social margins. This fascinating work re-energises debate around questions of why and how mission in marginal places should be planned and implemented.
Author: Robert M. Solomon
Publisher: Discovery House Publishing
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9814991309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” —Matthew 11:28-29 This invitation from Jesus speaks to many of us who are worn out, crushed by the pressures of life. It appears to offer us a refuge from our trials. But is this all our Lord is calling us to? Take a closer look at His invitation, and you’ll discover much more—promises of a new source of strength for our God-given tasks, as well as His challenge to follow Him all the way. Will we go to Him, to take His yoke, and to learn from Him? Find out how you can make sense of your faith and life as you respond wholeheartedly to the call of our Creator, Healer, Saviour, and Teacher.
Author: Anna E. Nekola
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1317162048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs. Bringing together a range of voices, promoting dialogue across a range of disciplines, each author approaches the topic of congregational music from his or her own perspective, facilitating cross-disciplinary connections while also showcasing a diversity of outlooks on the roles that music and media play in Christian experience. The authors break important new ground in understanding the ways that music, media and religious belief and praxis become ’lived theology’ in our media age, revealing the rich and diverse ways that people are living, experiencing and negotiating faith and community through music.
Author: Enoch Jinsik Kim
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1506496792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, scholars of Korean American Protestant churches address key challenges concerning sociocultural and theological formation of identity and mission. The discussions are arranged in three areas: identity formation, missional and spiritual formation, and inter-cultural formation.
Author: Graham Joseph Hill
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1725266504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPandemics, conflicts, and crises have increased suffering, death, and loss worldwide. The growing phenomenon of online interactions by the bereaved with the online presence of their deceased loved ones has recently come to the attention of caring professionals. Many questions emerge. How do we understand and respond to digital memorialization? What do we make of digital identities and continuing bonds? How can we engage with digital bereavement communities? What is the future of digital death and bereavement rituals and practices? How have forms of technospirituality and cybergnosticism emerged? How do counselors and carers respond to advances in the digital afterlife? Graham Joseph Hill and Desiree Geldenhuys examine existing therapeutic responses to death and bereavement practices and evaluate the efficacy in meeting the needs of mourners in a digital context. Geldenhuys and Hill explore the rising interest in spirituality and the phenomenon of technospirituality, including interest in the afterlife. The authors outline new death and bereavement practices in the digital public sphere. Hill and Geldenhuys offer ways that therapeutic and care practitioners can meet these needs. Finally, the authors develop new proposals for counseling, pastoral, and spiritual carers to help them address the needs of the bereaved.
Author: Christopher B. James
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0190673648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefying predictions of the inevitable decline of Christianity in the US, Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil presents the untold story of new churches springing up in Seattle, one of the most post-Christian cities in the nation.
