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Book Synopsis Repairing the Missional Breach by : Kevin Blackwell
Download or read book Repairing the Missional Breach written by Kevin Blackwell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making disciples is the primary calling of the church; however, in the past decades of American evangelicalism, there has been a breach of Christ’s Great Commission (as found in Matt 28:19–20). Much of this failure can be attributed to the doctrine and practice within three modern church movements. The book offers a history and critique of modern American evangelical church movements, including the Church Growth, Emergent Church, and Missional Church movements. Each of these movements did not result in disciple making multiplication. In this book, you will find an analysis of disciple making in these movements as compared to the methods and model of Jesus. Informed by these critiques, formative ministry adjustments are presented as a faithful path for future missional approaches.
Book Synopsis Repairing the Missional Breach by : Kevin Blackwell
Download or read book Repairing the Missional Breach written by Kevin Blackwell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making disciples is the primary calling of the church; however, in the past decades of American evangelicalism, there has been a breach of Christ’s Great Commission (as found in Matt 28:19–20). Much of this failure can be attributed to the doctrine and practice within three modern church movements. The book offers a history and critique of modern American evangelical church movements, including the Church Growth, Emergent Church, and Missional Church movements. Each of these movements did not result in disciple making multiplication. In this book, you will find an analysis of disciple making in these movements as compared to the methods and model of Jesus. Informed by these critiques, formative ministry adjustments are presented as a faithful path for future missional approaches.
Book Synopsis Repairing the Breach by : Joseph Sylvester Clark
Download or read book Repairing the Breach written by Joseph Sylvester Clark and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brimming with God by : Barbara J. Blodgett
Download or read book Brimming with God written by Barbara J. Blodgett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yearning to be a theologian is widespread. Pastors, students, supervisors, and mentors all wish to think theologically about their ministries but often feel inadequately prepared. This book seeks to respond by showcasing a variety of approaches to theological reflection brought to bear upon actual situations in ministry. It is written by theological field educators. We define theological reflection as reflection upon lived, embodied experiences in ministry that seeks to make sense of practice and form reflectors in habits for competent ministry. An introductory chapter defines theological reflection as practiced within field education and points readers toward a diversity of approaches. Eleven subsequent chapters present two reflections upon the same case, each reflection written by a different author and representing a different reflection method. The book's significance is as a resource for teaching theological reflection in a range of settings. It not only offers a definition of and rationale for theological reflection but models various approaches to it. Its use of cases furthermore models the use of case studies in theological education and pastoral practice more widely.
Book Synopsis We Don’t Trust Your Theology by : George M. Benson
Download or read book We Don’t Trust Your Theology written by George M. Benson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes after deconstruction? How do we begin to pick up some of the pieces of a faith or religious life that we had held on to for so long? We Don't Trust Your Theology is one person's approach to starting the reconstruction work. Meant as a jumping off point, this book walks alongside the reader to give ideas, encouragement, and some personal stories on what that may look like.
Book Synopsis The Healthy Churches' Handbook by : Robert Warren
Download or read book The Healthy Churches' Handbook written by Robert Warren and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide that helps churches identify their strengths and weaknesses and discover what action to take in order to develop the health of their church. It focuses on the quality of the church's life rather than just the numbers attending.
Book Synopsis Kinship in the Household of God by : Cynthia Tam
Download or read book Kinship in the Household of God written by Cynthia Tam and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume contributes a profound-autism perspective to the ongoing discussion of belonging in the church. By taking readers into two church communities, the author explores the issues of belonging from those least welcomed by the church and consider what the church should do differently. Adopting a “we” approach, she emphasizes the unity of different members in Christ. As one body in Christ, all believers share Christ’s sonship and become children of God. The household concept invites readers to reconceptualize Christian relationships as covenantal kinship. The kinship relationship is established by God’s covenantal commitment fulfilled in Christ. With or without autism, any person who obeys God’s summons is incorporated into Christ’s body by the Spirit to become God’s child. Believers are thus siblings to one another. Viewing each person this way enables us to see beyond human differences and welcome one another as God’s gifts and indispensable members of the community.
Book Synopsis A Recipe for Disaster by : John Marriott
Download or read book A Recipe for Disaster written by John Marriott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statistics speak for themselves; record numbers of individuals who at one time identified as Christians are deconverting from the faith and identifying as unbelievers. Why is this happening and what can be done to prevent it? A Recipe for Disaster seeks to answer those questions by focusing on the four ways churches and parents unwittingly contribute to the deconversion process. By over-preparing, under-preparing, ill-preparing, and painfully preparing those they are responsible to disciple into mature believers, churches and parents instead set them up for a crisis of faith that all too often leads to the loss of faith. In response to each of the four methods of poor preparation, A Recipe for Disaster offers a recipe for success, four alternative methods of preparation designed to instill lifelong faith.
Book Synopsis Pandemic Survival Guide by : Mpho J. Mosia
Download or read book Pandemic Survival Guide written by Mpho J. Mosia and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim for this book is to bring out the truth and reality of the Hebrew names of the Lord, who is Jesus Christ, and what his role is in the middle of a global pandemic, such as COVID-19. In this modern era, where technology is right at our disposal making it easy to look up a Bible verse on Google or a Bible app, we fail to fully digest the meaning behind Scripture. Memory verses are especially critical in times of severe pressure, when there is hardly any time to pray and the whole world suddenly comes crumbling down like an avalanche right in front of you. It takes time, endurance, and determination to memorize Scripture. But there is still time, and there is no better time than the present.
Book Synopsis Ministry at the Margins by : Cheryl J. Sanders
Download or read book Ministry at the Margins written by Cheryl J. Sanders and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries women, youth, and the poor have been seen as objects of Christian ministry, but rarely as those who do ministry themselves. This is so much the case that in some quarters today ministry and mission are bad words, reeking of older and paternalistic models of Christian "service." In this challenging book, Cheryl Sanders demonstrates how mission can be updated. Far from being regressive or irrelevant in a multicultural, nonpatriarchal world, Christian mission can come alive when it is not just ministry to but ministry by marginalized groups seeking justice. Ministry at the Margins is an important Christian ethicist's rousing call to "find grace to articulate a theology of inclusion and to establish inclusive practices and multicultural perspectives that harmonize with the gospel we preach and honor the Christ we proclaim." Essential reading for pastors, church leaders, students, urban missionaries, and campus ministers.
Book Synopsis The Great Commission Resurgence by : Adam W. Greenway
Download or read book The Great Commission Resurgence written by Adam W. Greenway and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by Southern Baptist leaders on the biblical, theological, and practical matters relating to their convention's Great Commission Resurgence initiative.
Book Synopsis Knowing God to Make Him Known by : Ed Scheuerman
Download or read book Knowing God to Make Him Known written by Ed Scheuerman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians are all too familiar with the dichotomy between “being a Mary” (sitting at Jesus’ feet) and “being a Martha” (being active in ministry). We have been told that before we can do, we first need to be. And this is well and good. But it is insufficient. Before we can be, we first need to know. We need to know who God is (God’s attributes) so that we can then be who we are intended to be in Christ. Only then should we seek to do what he has called and equipped us to do for his glory. This book focuses on knowing God, in his many attributes, so that we can become conformed to his image, in order to do what he’s called us to do to bring the gospel to the world.
Book Synopsis A Patterned Life by : Eileen Bebbington
Download or read book A Patterned Life written by Eileen Bebbington and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bebbington--one of the most influential historians working today--is widely acknowledged as a world authority on religious history. He is also recognized for having devised the Bebbington Quadrilateral as the standard definition of evangelicalism, one of the most important global religious movements of the twenty-first century. In this lively study, Eileen Bebbington--who first met her husband as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge over forty years ago--paints a vivid portrait of the life and thought of this leading scholar. Many who know Professor Bebbington's most celebrated books, such as Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, Patterns in History, The Mind of Gladstone, and Victorian Religious Revivals, will be delighted to learn that his first such effort was actually A History of the Ancient World with Which Is Incorporated Classical Mythology, a duly footnoted, four-volume work written at the age of nine! A Patterned Life is much more than an account of the intellectual development of a preeminent historian; it is a study of a life lived as a disciple of Jesus Christ--a human and often humorous account of eccentricities, an honest acknowledgment of trials, and an inspiring witness to one person's efforts to integrate a deep, earnest Christian faith with the best of modern thought.
Book Synopsis The Three Conversions of the Christian Life by : Kevin E. Martin
Download or read book The Three Conversions of the Christian Life written by Kevin E. Martin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity is a religion of conversion, but what is conversion? This book explores the fullness of the Christian life and the threefold turnings that it demands of Jesus’ followers. Starting with St. Paul while looking in detail at his Damascus Road experience and examining the remarkable lives of exemplary Christians, the authors unfold dynamics of conversion and call all followers to grow deeper in their discipleship.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Word by : Trevor Laurence
Download or read book The Story of the Word written by Trevor Laurence and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Bible really all about? Is it primarily a work of history, tales of long ago? Is it a collection of spiritual episodes designed to inspire? Is it a series of moral stories intended to show you how to be a better person? Or is it more? In forty-five devotional meditations, The Story of the Word explores the Bible from its beginnings in Genesis all the way to its glorious end in Revelation, showing how Scripture narrates God's story of the world, a story which finds its ultimate meaning and fulfillment in Jesus Christ. This book guides you on a prayerful journey through the major turning points in the Bible, inviting you to trace the developing storyline from creation to the cross to the consummation of history. And as you learn to read the story of the Bible as the story of Jesus, you'll discover how you fit in to the wondrous story God is telling.
Book Synopsis The Influence of the Church on the Local Community by : Abraham G. Ndung'u
Download or read book The Influence of the Church on the Local Community written by Abraham G. Ndung'u and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church is called to be the agency through which God is not only known but through which his kingdom is also advanced. This book, therefore, is an attempt to examine the church's influence on communities through social justice practices as part of advancing the gospel of the kingdom of God. The book brings out results of a study about a congregation's significant impact on a local community through varied social justice programs. The book also provides relevant recommendations on how such initiatives can be improved for a more effective kingdom-driven ministry to local communities. It is hoped that the example of J. Jireh Ministry Church provides a case worthy of emulation by other churches, congregations, and similar faith-based community organizations for ministering to social justice needs at the local level.
Download or read book Trading With God written by Ken Snodgrass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can I work for an energy company and still be a Christian? This question from a young professional working in the author’s London trading department sparked a journey that resulted in this book. Trading With God addresses the relevancy of the Christian faith in today’s workplace. Recognizing that Christianity is a 24/7 endeavor, this book provides the framework and tools for the reader to make the critical connection between your actual daily work activities and what God created you to do. This enables Christians to find the most meaning in their jobs and journey of faith. Trading With God delivers in three parts. First, it grounds readers with history, scriptural references, and summarized concepts of faithful work developed over time by various church theologians. Second, a practical threefold model for Christians is introduced for daily application throughout their working lives. And third, the book builds seven steps to apply this model, which are illustrated by personal stories based upon the author’s thirty-four years of professional workplace experiences and theological research. Integrating faith and work using these seven steps can infuse more meaning into any vocation and can transform all workers, as well as the workplace and the wider community.
