Ministry at the Margins

Ministry at the Margins

Author: Cheryl Jeanne Sanders

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780830819973

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Cheryl Sanders shows how ministry might be carried out by historically marginalized groups like women, minorities and children. She argues that missions can be revitalized by a theology of inclusion in a multicultural world.


Friendship at the Margins

Friendship at the Margins

Author: Christopher L. Heuertz

Publisher: IVP Books

Published: 2010-03-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780830834549

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Chris Heuertz, international director of Word Made Flesh, and theologian and ethicist Christine Pohl show how friendship is a Christian vocation that can bring reconciliation and healing to our broken world. They contend that unlikely friendships are at the center of an alternative paradigm for mission, where people are not objectified as potential converts but encountered in a relationship of mutuality and reciprocity.


Reading the Bible from the Margins

Reading the Bible from the Margins

Author: Miguel A. De La Torre

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1608333418

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This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.


Understanding Christian Mission

Understanding Christian Mission

Author: Scott W. Sunquist

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2013-09-15

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1441242147

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This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address the global church and offers a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today. Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation. He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission. Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the nations.


Ministry at the Margins

Ministry at the Margins

Author: Anthony J. Gittins

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781570754173

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Profound and practical spiritual insights on cross-cultural ministry and mission, at home and abroad.


When Missions Shapes the Mission

When Missions Shapes the Mission

Author: David A. Horner

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1433673592

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"Why are more churches not engaged in practical, substantial ways of taking the gospel to the nations?" When Missions Shape the Mission unpacks a statistical study of traditionally evangelical churches that reveals their anemic level of commitment to the biblical mandate of making Christ known around the world. Veteran pastor David Horner makes the data easy to understand, challenging other pastors to radically assign their best leadership and resources to missions as he looks at where the church is today, how it got there, and where we must go from here: "Let's dream a godly dream. What if you committed to step up and lead your church in the pursuit of becoming a mission-focused church? Then, what if you invited ten of your pastor friends to join you in the effort—and each of them did the same? What would happen to the available missions force beginning right here in the West?"


Together Towards Life

Together Towards Life

Author: Jooseop Keum

Publisher: World Council of Churches

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782825416242

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World Council of Churches (WCC) ecumenical affirmation on mission and evangelism, prepared by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), approved as an official statement of the WCC by the Central Committee in Crete, 5 September 2012. Based on a CWME consultation in January 2013, Kochi, India, aiming at translating the new concepts brought by the affirmation into missional actions in local congregations, mission organizations and missiological formation, a practical guide has been produced by the commission. This book is meant to enable reflection, study and application of the new mission statement.


Theology and Practice of Mission

Theology and Practice of Mission

Author: Bruce Riley Ashford

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1433675420

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Theology disconnected from mission is not Christian theology at all. The pastors, professors, and missionaries writing Theology and Practice of Mission provide a clear biblical-theological framework for understanding the church's mission to the nations. Toward that goal, the book holds three major sections: God's mission, the church's mission, and the church's mission to the nations. Part one explores the canon of Christian Scripture from narrative and systematic angles, explaining how the mission of God-to redeem a people who will be a kingdom of priests to the praise of his glory, bear witness to his gospel, advance his church, and dwell with him forever on a new heaven and earth-is communicated in the Bible's four movements: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration. Part two sees the mission of God's people in the light of God's mission, emphasizing not only preaching and church planting but also gospel witness in every dimension of human culture-glorifying God in family, church, work, community, through the arts, sciences, education, business, and the public square. The writers encourage us to live missionally, leaving all of our resources at God's disposal for the sake of his kingdom. Finally, part three contends that the North American church must come to terms with its missional calling-just as international missionaries do-and gives a starting point and parameters for conceiving the church's mission to all people groups and cultural contexts. Chapters here include ones on unreached people groups, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Postmoderns.


Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions

Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions

Author: Lee Panich

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0816530513

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Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions offers a holistic view on the consequences of mission enterprises and how native peoples actively incorporated Spanish colonialism into their own landscapes. An innovative reorientation spanning the northern limits of Spanish colonialism, this volume brings together a variety of archaeologists focused on placing indigenous agency in the foreground of mission interpretation.