Today's All-Star Missions Churches
Author: Tom Telford
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2001-10
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0801063817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA helpful collection of studies on churches with strong and innovative missions programs.
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Author: Tom Telford
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2001-10
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0801063817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA helpful collection of studies on churches with strong and innovative missions programs.
Author: R. Stanton Norman
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780805443783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mission of Today's Church is a compelling collection of twelve essays from current Baptist leaders addressing three major questions: (1) What does it mean to be a Christian today on individual, group, and societal levels? (2) How can Southern Baptists best work together? and (3) What is next for the Southern Baptist denomination? Those addressing these key topics in-depth include Stan Norman ("Together We Grow: Congregational Polity as a Form of Corporate Sanctification"), Ed Stetzer ("The Missional Nature of the Church"), and Daniel Akin ("Ten Mandates for Southern Baptists"). Among the many other contributors are Chad Brand, Charles Kelley, and Jim Richards.
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: Tom Telford
Publisher: Shaw
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780877885788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this intriguing and challenging book, Tom Telford analyzes the state of world missions today and discusses the mistakes most North American mission agencies and local churches make. With enthusiasm, wit, and candor, he offers solid, biblical suggestions to prepare members of the local church for the whole new ballgame of world missions in the new century.
Author: David A. Horner
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1433673592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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?"
Author: Bernard J. Lee
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780809141326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Gatbered and Sent, Bernard Lee and Michael Cowan propose a mode of doing theology within small Christian communities that is marked by conversation and active participation by all. It is a practical theology where people reflect on their whole lives, personal and social, in the light of Christian faith, make commitments to action in light of that reflection, and hold one another accountable for those commitments."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Martin Robinson
Publisher: Monarch Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780825461033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Planting on a significant scale changes the church and changes the world."
Author: Bruce Riley Ashford
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1433675420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheology 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.
Author: Casely B. Essamuah
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenuinely Ghanaian is the fascinating history of the Methodist Church Ghana, from the time of its autonomy, 1961, to the year 2000. This book shows how missiological issues of contextualization and outreach have shaped the history of the Methodist Church Ghana since the independence of Ghana from colonial rule. Ghanaians have accepted Methodism on their own terms and have reworked it to fit their needs. The Methodist Church Ghana has its roots in a Bible study group of Ghanaians, formed in 1835. Aided by British Methodist missionaries, the group developed over the next 130 years, until, in 1961, it gained autonomy from the British Methodist Conference. Central elements in the contextualization of this church include Ghanaian identity Akan culture, and Methodist missionary theology. This book examines the evolution and consolidation of Methodism in Ghana from 1961 to 2000, highlighting in particular the contributions of the Fante people.
Author: Jimmy Dorrell
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781596690103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrolls & Truth is the story of a local church of homeless people, college students, middle-class Christians, some poor and some rich, black, white, and brown, drunks, materialists, mentally ill, and former inmates who meet beneath the noise of 18-wheelers and rushing traffic under an interstate bridge in Waco, Texas. As they live out biblical mandates across racial and cultural barriers and institutional baggage, they remind us that the gospel cannot be shaped by socially accepted values and remain "good news."