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Author: Mike Barnett
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-09-28
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0830869913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by 21st-century field workers, scholars and church leaders, this sixteen-chapter ebook supplement to Discovering the Mission of God explores the mission of God as presented in the Bible, expressed throughout church history and in cutting-edge best practices being used around the world today.
Author: Mike Barnett
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 0830859853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a team of 21st-century scholar-practitioners, Discovering the Mission of God explores the mission of God as presented in the Bible, expressed throughout church history and in cutting-edge best practices being used around the world today.
Author: J.D. Greear
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0310515254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople are leaving the church J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And that’s exactly how he wants it to be. When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he revealed that the key for reaching the world with the gospel is found in sending, not gathering. Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers, the real mission of the church isn’t how many people you can gather. It’s about training up disciples and then sending them out. The true measure of success for a church should be its sending capacity, not its seating capacity. But there is a cost to this. To see ministry multiply, we must release the seeds God has placed in our hands. And to do that, we must ask ourselves whether we are concerned more with building our kingdom or God’s. In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks ten plumb lines that you can use to reorient your church’s priorities around God’s mission to reach a lost world. The good news is that you don’t need to choose between gathering or sending. Effective churches can, and must, do both.
Author: House Studio
Publisher: House Studio
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780834135161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMissional Essentials is written to help followers of Christ rediscover the heart of God for their neighborhoods and communities.
Author: Crawford Leonard Allen
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780891120063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rich and challenging book explores the roots or ancestry of the Churches of Christ and others who stand as heirs to the Stone-Campbell movement of the early nineteenth century. It asks, Where did we come from? How did we get this way? Why do we read the Bible the way we do? What has been the heart of our movement? And it asks further, What can we learn from those who have viewed restoration of apostolic Christianity in ways quite different from our own? The authors begin their story in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - the age of Renaissance and Reformation. They isolate the stream of restorationist thought that arose in that age and then follow that stream through the Puritans, the early Baptists in America, the frenzy of pure beginnings in the early decades of American nationhood, and down to the Stone-Campbell movement.
Author: Michael W. Goheen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0830895434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Goheen gives us a full-scale introduction to mission studies today in its biblical, theological and historical dimensions. Goheen covers the full horizon of major issues in mission, including its global, urban and holistic contexts. This text shows how the missional church encounters the pluralism of Western culture and global religions.
Author: J. Todd Billings
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0802862357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book fills a real need for pastors and students. Though there is currently a large body of material on the theological interpretation of Scripture, most of it is highly specific and extremely technical. J. Todd Billings here provides a straightforward entryway for students and pastors to understand why theological interpretation matters and how it can be done. / A solid, constructive theological work, The Word of God for the People of God presents a distinctive Trinitarian, participatory approach toward reading Scripture as the church. Billings's accessible yet substantial argument for a theological hermeneutic is rooted in a historic vision of the practice of scriptural interpretation even as it engages a wide range of contemporary issues and includes several exegetical examples that apply to concrete Christian ministry situations.
Author: Rebecca J. Nolley
Publisher: AuthorLoyalty
Published: 2022-03-28
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1632695812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen we look around at the darkness of this world, it's hard to see the light. Jesus declared, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world” (John 9:5). Yet, Jesus is no longer in the world. In fact, it's been over two thousand years since He's walked this earth. So where is the light now? The truth is that it's in us. As said in Matthew 5:14, “You are the light of the world.” Shine is an eight-week study into this truth―into identifying the One True Light and learning how to shine brighter for Him. God's light reveals truth, draws others, and exposes sin, and our own light works to do the same. However, it is not so easy because it's a fight against fear, selfishness, apathy, and the harmful impulse to hide one's personal light. The very concept of light is seen all throughout Scripture, blooming with the first verses of Genesis and concluding with the last verses of Revelation, and it is through this that Shine sheds its own light onto God's Word. Rebecca J. Nolley utilizes compassion and inspiration to explore the significance of walking forward as beacons of light and the valuable message that when we shine the light of Jesus into the lives of others, more people will turn to Him, and He will be further glorified. Shine begins and ends its study with the Giver of Light and the simple truth that it is through Him and by Him we are able to shine.
Author: Michael W. Stroope
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 0830882251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the language of mission clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past? Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity, offering a hopeful way forward in this pressing conversation.
Author: Ray C. Stedman
Publisher: Regal Books
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780830701438
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