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.


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.


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.


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 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.


Chicago Católico

Chicago Católico

Author: Deborah E. Kanter

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-02-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 025205184X

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Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer Spanish language mass to congregants. How did the city's Mexican population, contained in just two parishes prior to 1960, come to reshape dozens of parishes and neighborhoods? Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago's Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbors, and from the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. Kanter shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities. In an ever-evolving city, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans’ fierce devotion to their churches transformed neighborhoods such as Pilsen. The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, Chicago Católico illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present-day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.


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.


Brown Church

Brown Church

Author: Robert Chao Romero

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0830853952

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The Latina/o culture and identity have long been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo. Robert Chao Romero explores the "Brown Church" and how this movement appeals to the vision for redemption that includes not only heavenly promises but also the transformation of our lives and the world.