Motus Dei

Motus Dei

Author: Warrick Farah

Publisher: William Carey Publishing

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1645083500

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Discover Your Place in the Movement of God An incredible breakthrough in missions history is taking place as disciples of Jesus make more disciples of Jesus around the globe, particularly among the least-reached. But what exactly are these church planting or disciple making movements? Where are they occurring and what are their unifying features? How are they manifesting in diverse populations? And can you or your organization be instrumental in catalyzing more movements? Motus Dei, Latin for “movement of God,” seeks to answer these questions and more. Warrick Farah has expertly synthesized an extensive conversation between mission practitioners, scholars, and seasoned movement leaders from around the world. The resulting in-depth analysis of movements provides a multi-disciplinary, academic investigation of an emerging “movements missiology,” highlighting the importance of theology, social sciences, ethnology and anthropology, communications theory, leadership theory, and statistical analysis. Motus Dei locates the current Church Planting Movement (CPM) phenomenon within modern history, while tracing its roots back to the first century, and articulates a missiological description of the dynamics of Disciple Making Movements (DMMs) in Asia, Africa, and diaspora contexts in the Global North. Offering over thirty firsthand accounts of indigenous churches planting churches among the nations, Motus Dei provides a seedbed for growing movements in diverse contexts. There are lessons to be learned here by anyone seeking to participate in the movement of God.


Beyond Charity

Beyond Charity

Author: John M. Perkins

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 1993-07-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1585582115

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A powerful call to action to bring reconciliation and restoration to broken communities.


Church Planting Movements

Church Planting Movements

Author: V. David Garrison

Publisher: WIGTake Resources

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780974756202

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David Garrison, PhD University of Chicago, defines Church Planting Movements as rapidly multiplying indigenous churches planting churches that sweep across a people group or population segment. Garrison's Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World signaled a breakthrough in missionary church planting. After the publication of Garrison's book in 2004 it became impossible to talk about missions without referencing Church Planting Movements. Church Planting Movements examines more than two-dozen movements of multiplying churches on five continents. After presenting these case studies, Garrison identifies ten universal elements present in each movement. He then broadens the circle of examination to identify a further ten common characteristics, factors identified in most, but not all, of the movements. He concludes his examination with a list of "Seven Deadly Sins," i.e. harmful practices that stifle or impede Church Planting Movements. Important for evangelical readers, the author returns to his findings to see how they stand up to the light of Scripture. What he discovers is that Church Planting Movements are much more consistent with the New Testament lay-led house-church movements that swept rapidly through the Mediterranean world in the face of hostile opposition than today's more sedentary professional institutionalized Christianity. Learn more about Church Planting Movements from the book's website: www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com.


The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission

The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission

Author: Narry F. Santos

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1666730963

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Crisis is an invitation to both prophetic evaluation and new imagination. In this volume, Canadian missiologists and practitioners consider the past and how the past might enable the church to move forward in Christian mission—in the academy, agency, assembly, and the agora. How can the Canadian church welcome different voices from the periphery? What must be done to empower the next generation? How can we respond in light of the injustices done to our Indigenous brothers and sisters? Where does reconciliation fit into the picture? How might we navigate between secularization and fundamentalisms? How ought we move together in mission and in unity across denominational difference? How can we equip laypeople to live their callings faithfully in the agora? How can work in the marketplace be ministry? And lastly, how is the Spirit at work in our contexts in this day and age? These questions (among others) onboard us into the ongoing conversation about the state of evangelical mission in Canada, and each of these essays adeptly lead us into the beginnings of answers to these questions. These essays address how the past informs our future, and how we might answer the prophetic call with both hope and renewed vigor to participate in the mission of God.


Transformational Church

Transformational Church

Author: Ed Stetzer

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1433669307

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It is time to take heart and rework the scorecard. --


Reflections of Asian Diaspora

Reflections of Asian Diaspora

Author: Sam George

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1506487483

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Scholars of Asian background to draw insights on Christian ministry from a diasporic perspective, highlighting the Asian diasporic experience in areas of theology and ministry. Issues of a practical nature, such as English language worship, contextual leadership, and missionary training are included.


Reviving Mission

Reviving Mission

Author: Linson Daniel

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2024-12-17

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1514009633

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God is leading us into a new season of renewal and revival. Apostolic mission leaders Linson Daniel, Jon Hietbrink, and Eric Rafferty invite us into everyday mission in the way of Jesus with this integrative model that brings together spirituality, calling, and formation to equip the whole community to encounter God's movement in fresh ways.


Principles of Natural Theology

Principles of Natural Theology

Author: George H. Joyce

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-04-26

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 3868385711

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Natural Theology is that branch of philosophy which investigates what human reason unaided by revelation can tell us concerning God. The end at which it aims is to demonstrate the existence of God, to establish the principal divine attributes, to vindicate God’s relation to the world as that of the Creator to the creature, and, finally, to throw what light it can on the action of divine providence in regard of man and on the problem of evil.