Missional Communities
Missional Communities

Author: Reggie McNeal

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1118107586

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The third book in the trilogy that explores the popular missional movement From Reggie McNeal, the bestselling author of The Present Future and Missional Renaissance, comes the third book in the series that helps to define and illuminate the popular missional movement. This newest book in the trilogy examines a natural outgrowth of the move toward a missional orientation: the deconstruction of congregations into very small Christian communities. For all those thousands of churches and leaders who have followed Reggie McNeal's bold lead, this book details the rise of a new life form in churches. Discusses how to move a church from an internal to an external ministry focus Reggie McNeal is a recognized leader in the missional movement Outlines an alternative to the program church model that is focused on the projects and passions of the congregants This book draws on McNeal's twenty years of leadership roles in local congregations and his work over the last decade with thousands of clergy and church leaders.

Cultivating Sent Communities
Cultivating Sent Communities

Author: Dwight Zscheile

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0802867278

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"Cultivating sent communities reimagines spiritual formation through the lens of mission, covering such topics as the role of Scripture, congregational discernment, and short-term missions and drawing on case studies from diverse contexts including Ethiopia, England, Leipzig, and San Francisco."--Back cover.

Missional Small Groups (Allelon Missional Series)
Missional Small Groups (Allelon Missional Series)

Author: M. Scott Boren

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1441212299

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Small groups are a great place to connect with other churchgoers, but many wonder, is this all there is? Is sitting in a living room, talking about a book or watching a video the extent of what we can do together? Isn't being a Christian community about something more than this? Pastor and author Scott Boren thinks so. In this latest release from missional thinktank Allelon, Boren gives leaders and members of small groups the tools they need to make an impact on their communities. Beginning with a gentle critique of current small group models, Boren goes on to show how a uniquely Christian paradigm can set groups free to transform their communities. The final section of the book offers over twenty practices that groups can do to become more missional. Ultimately Missional Small Groups is about helping groups follow Jesus by equipping them to bring his message and healing to a hurting world.

Saturate
Saturate

Author: Jeff Vanderstelt

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2015-04-16

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1433546027

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What does living for Jesus look like in the everyday stuff of life? Many Christians have unwittingly embraced the idea that “church” is a once-a-week event rather than a community of Spirit-empowered people; that “ministry” is what pastors do on Sundays rather than the 24/7 calling of all believers; and that “discipleship” is a program rather than the normal state of every follower of Jesus. Drawing on his experience as a pastor and church planter, Jeff Vanderstelt wants us to see that there’s more—much more—to the Christian life than sitting in a pew once a week. God has called his people to something bigger: a view of the Christian life that encompasses the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between. Packed full of biblical teaching, compelling stories, and real-world advice, this book will remind you that Jesus is filling the world with his presence through the everyday lives of everyday people... People just like you.

Missional Moves
Missional Moves

Author: Rob Wegner

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0310495067

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From saved souls to saved wholes, from transactional to transformational, this book describes fifteen paradigm shifts in how gospel-driven Christian leaders are thinking about churches and ministry in today's world. The church was never designed to be a fortress for the righteous, but a flood of revolutionaries, bringing the Good News of the Kingdom to broken lives and broken communities in a broken world. Today, millions of Christians are awakening to the holism, or wholeness, of the gospel call, expanding their understanding of church from an institution to a movement. Recognizing the Church's past missteps and re-envisioning its role in modern society, Missional Moves, will fundamentally alter your understanding of the church and how its mission is lived out. Rob Wegner and Jack Magruder are church founders and Christian thought-leaders who will walk you through three distinct categories of changes that today’s churches have to understand in order to have the greatest, positive impact: The paradigm shift of our missional imagination. The centralized shift of our local church mission field. The decentralized shift of the global family of Christ. If this calling toward movement and transformation is to be realized, it will require some earth-shaking shifts in our concept of the evangelistic mission: "Missional Moves." This book provides a plan of action for your church that will empower you to unleash each member on a mission, both locally and globally.

Cultivating Missional Communities
Cultivating Missional Communities

Author: Inagrace T. Dietterich

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1597526177

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This study resource focuses upon Christian practices: those behaviors by which congregations shape, teach, train, equip -- cultivate -- their identity, vision, and mission as Christian communities. Thus baptism, Eucharist, forgiveness, ministry, discernment, and worship are practices through which a people are formed in a distinctive way of life. Questions for reflection and discussion are included to stimulate use within groups for study, learning, and formation.

Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities
Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities

Author: Rachel Gilmore

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781950899265

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Author Rachel Gilmore writes that missional communities are popping up in auto shops, pubs, parks, and tattoo parlors. The pandemic of Covid-19 created virtual missional communities that meet in a Zoom room to talk about parables while eating pizza that they all ordered from a local restaurant. Missional communities are springing up by using the house party app where friends and friends of friends gather to play games and pray for situations they are facing during quarantine.In her book, Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities, Gilmore discusses three primary reasons churches must take mission communities more seriously and what to do to make more missional communities a reality.Chapters include: What is a Missional Community? Why do we Need Missional Communities? Listen and Discern; Love, Serve & Gather; Disciple and Worship; Mature; and Multiplication.Intended to serve as a companion to The Greatest Expedition (greatestexpedition.com) or a standalone guide, Expanding The Expedition Reach With Missional Communities is a must-read for churches as we sort through the post-pandemic period of Christianity.

Breaking the Missional Code
Breaking the Missional Code

Author: Ed Stetzer

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0805443592

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The authors provide expert insight on church culture and church vision casting, along with case studies of successful modern missional churches.

Creating a Missional Culture
Creating a Missional Culture

Author: JR Woodward

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-09-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0830866795

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Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a blueprint for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.