Author: Dwight Zscheile
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867278
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
"Cultivating sent communities reimagines spiritual formation through the lens of mission, covering such topics as the role of Scripture, congregational discernment, and short-term missions and drawing on case studies from diverse contexts including Ethiopia, England, Leipzig, and San Francisco."--Back cover.
Cultivating Sent Communities
Author: Dwight Zscheile
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867278
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
"Cultivating sent communities reimagines spiritual formation through the lens of mission, covering such topics as the role of Scripture, congregational discernment, and short-term missions and drawing on case studies from diverse contexts including Ethiopia, England, Leipzig, and San Francisco."--Back cover.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867278
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
"Cultivating sent communities reimagines spiritual formation through the lens of mission, covering such topics as the role of Scripture, congregational discernment, and short-term missions and drawing on case studies from diverse contexts including Ethiopia, England, Leipzig, and San Francisco."--Back cover.
Saturate
Author: Jeff Vanderstelt
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433546027
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
What does living for Jesus look like in the everyday stuff of life? Many Christians have unwittingly embraced the idea that “church” is a once-a-week event rather than a community of Spirit-empowered people; that “ministry” is what pastors do on Sundays rather than the 24/7 calling of all believers; and that “discipleship” is a program rather than the normal state of every follower of Jesus. Drawing on his experience as a pastor and church planter, Jeff Vanderstelt wants us to see that there’s more—much more—to the Christian life than sitting in a pew once a week. God has called his people to something bigger: a view of the Christian life that encompasses the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between. Packed full of biblical teaching, compelling stories, and real-world advice, this book will remind you that Jesus is filling the world with his presence through the everyday lives of everyday people... People just like you.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433546027
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
What does living for Jesus look like in the everyday stuff of life? Many Christians have unwittingly embraced the idea that “church” is a once-a-week event rather than a community of Spirit-empowered people; that “ministry” is what pastors do on Sundays rather than the 24/7 calling of all believers; and that “discipleship” is a program rather than the normal state of every follower of Jesus. Drawing on his experience as a pastor and church planter, Jeff Vanderstelt wants us to see that there’s more—much more—to the Christian life than sitting in a pew once a week. God has called his people to something bigger: a view of the Christian life that encompasses the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between. Packed full of biblical teaching, compelling stories, and real-world advice, this book will remind you that Jesus is filling the world with his presence through the everyday lives of everyday people... People just like you.
Cultivating Missional Communities
Author: Inagrace T. Dietterich
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597526177
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This study resource focuses upon Christian practices: those behaviors by which congregations shape, teach, train, equip -- cultivate -- their identity, vision, and mission as Christian communities. Thus baptism, Eucharist, forgiveness, ministry, discernment, and worship are practices through which a people are formed in a distinctive way of life. Questions for reflection and discussion are included to stimulate use within groups for study, learning, and formation.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597526177
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This study resource focuses upon Christian practices: those behaviors by which congregations shape, teach, train, equip -- cultivate -- their identity, vision, and mission as Christian communities. Thus baptism, Eucharist, forgiveness, ministry, discernment, and worship are practices through which a people are formed in a distinctive way of life. Questions for reflection and discussion are included to stimulate use within groups for study, learning, and formation.
Creating a Missional Culture
Author: JR Woodward
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830866795
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a blueprint for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830866795
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a blueprint for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.
Missional Church
Author: Lois Barrett
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802843500
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Alan J. Roxburgh, and Craig Van Gelder. The result of a three-year research project undertaken by The Gospel and Our Culture Network, this book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America, while also offering the tools to help it do so. The authors examine North America s secular culture and the church s loss of dominance in today s society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the church s missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802843500
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Alan J. Roxburgh, and Craig Van Gelder. The result of a three-year research project undertaken by The Gospel and Our Culture Network, this book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America, while also offering the tools to help it do so. The authors examine North America s secular culture and the church s loss of dominance in today s society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the church s missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.
Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities
Author: Rachel Gilmore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950899265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author Rachel Gilmore writes that missional communities are popping up in auto shops, pubs, parks, and tattoo parlors. The pandemic of Covid-19 created virtual missional communities that meet in a Zoom room to talk about parables while eating pizza that they all ordered from a local restaurant. Missional communities are springing up by using the house party app where friends and friends of friends gather to play games and pray for situations they are facing during quarantine.In her book, Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities, Gilmore discusses three primary reasons churches must take mission communities more seriously and what to do to make more missional communities a reality.Chapters include: What is a Missional Community? Why do we Need Missional Communities? Listen and Discern; Love, Serve & Gather; Disciple and Worship; Mature; and Multiplication.Intended to serve as a companion to The Greatest Expedition (greatestexpedition.com) or a standalone guide, Expanding The Expedition Reach With Missional Communities is a must-read for churches as we sort through the post-pandemic period of Christianity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950899265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author Rachel Gilmore writes that missional communities are popping up in auto shops, pubs, parks, and tattoo parlors. The pandemic of Covid-19 created virtual missional communities that meet in a Zoom room to talk about parables while eating pizza that they all ordered from a local restaurant. Missional communities are springing up by using the house party app where friends and friends of friends gather to play games and pray for situations they are facing during quarantine.In her book, Expanding the Expedition Reach with Missional Communities, Gilmore discusses three primary reasons churches must take mission communities more seriously and what to do to make more missional communities a reality.Chapters include: What is a Missional Community? Why do we Need Missional Communities? Listen and Discern; Love, Serve & Gather; Disciple and Worship; Mature; and Multiplication.Intended to serve as a companion to The Greatest Expedition (greatestexpedition.com) or a standalone guide, Expanding The Expedition Reach With Missional Communities is a must-read for churches as we sort through the post-pandemic period of Christianity.
The Agile Church
Author: Dwight Zscheile
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819229776
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
In today's dynamic cultural environment, churches have to be more than faithful--they have to be agile. That means embracing processes of trial, failure, and adaptation as they form Christian community with new neighbors. And that means a whole new way of being church. Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking on organizational innovation to help churches flourish in a time of profound uncertainty and spiritual opportunity. Picking up where his recent bestseller, People of the Way left off, Zscheile answers urgent and practical questions around how churches become agile and adaptive to meet cultural change. Cutting-edge leadership theory, approaches, and techniques for churches Skillfully addresses both academic and church audiences Study guide included
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819229776
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
In today's dynamic cultural environment, churches have to be more than faithful--they have to be agile. That means embracing processes of trial, failure, and adaptation as they form Christian community with new neighbors. And that means a whole new way of being church. Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking on organizational innovation to help churches flourish in a time of profound uncertainty and spiritual opportunity. Picking up where his recent bestseller, People of the Way left off, Zscheile answers urgent and practical questions around how churches become agile and adaptive to meet cultural change. Cutting-edge leadership theory, approaches, and techniques for churches Skillfully addresses both academic and church audiences Study guide included
The Permanent Revolution
Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118173589
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new brand of apostolic ministry for today's world The Permanent Revolution is a work of theological re-imagination and re-construction that draws from biblical studies, theology, organizational theory, leadership studies, and key social sciences. The book elaborates on the apostolic role rooted in the five-fold ministry from Ephesians 4 (apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teacher), and its significance for the missional movement. It explores how the apostolic ministry facilitates ongoing renewal in the life of the church and focuses on leadership in relation to missional innovation and entrepreneurship.The authors examine the nature of organization as reframed through the lens of apostolic ministry. Shows how to view the world through a biblical perspective and continue the "permanent revolution" that Jesus started Outlines the essential characteristics of apostolic movement and how to restructure the church and ministry to be more consistent with them Alan Hirsch is a leading voice in the missional movement of the Christian West This groundbreaking book integrates theology, sociology, and leadership to further define the apostolic movement.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118173589
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A new brand of apostolic ministry for today's world The Permanent Revolution is a work of theological re-imagination and re-construction that draws from biblical studies, theology, organizational theory, leadership studies, and key social sciences. The book elaborates on the apostolic role rooted in the five-fold ministry from Ephesians 4 (apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teacher), and its significance for the missional movement. It explores how the apostolic ministry facilitates ongoing renewal in the life of the church and focuses on leadership in relation to missional innovation and entrepreneurship.The authors examine the nature of organization as reframed through the lens of apostolic ministry. Shows how to view the world through a biblical perspective and continue the "permanent revolution" that Jesus started Outlines the essential characteristics of apostolic movement and how to restructure the church and ministry to be more consistent with them Alan Hirsch is a leading voice in the missional movement of the Christian West This groundbreaking book integrates theology, sociology, and leadership to further define the apostolic movement.
The Missional Leader
Author: Alan J. Roxburgh
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506463347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J. Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk address two questions: "How do we do missional?" and "What does missional leadership look like?" Drawing on their many years of experience, the authors show readers how to bring God's word into the community outside the church's walls. They focus on how to lead missionally on the ground, in the local setting, even amid leaders' experience of massive change within the church and in the wider world. The challenge for many church leaders is that they are not equipped to lead a church in shifting from a consumer model of church to one that is missional. They were trained in a Christendom mindset--to meet the needs of the church's members. This book assists leaders in shifting from dominant models of leadership rooted in strategic planning--with mission and vision statements, desired outcomes, measurements along the way, and determined goals. It provides a praxis for beginning where people are, rather than where the leader wants them to go. Roxburgh and Romanuk give frank recognition to the fact that the shift from a consumer model to a missional mindset will almost certainly be stormy, disruptive, and disorienting. This is not a book of quick fixes and slick slogans, but one that sets out a comprehensive and in-depth treatment for a different way of leading. The Missional Leader is a critical commentary that needs to be read in the light of today's realities.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506463347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J. Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk address two questions: "How do we do missional?" and "What does missional leadership look like?" Drawing on their many years of experience, the authors show readers how to bring God's word into the community outside the church's walls. They focus on how to lead missionally on the ground, in the local setting, even amid leaders' experience of massive change within the church and in the wider world. The challenge for many church leaders is that they are not equipped to lead a church in shifting from a consumer model of church to one that is missional. They were trained in a Christendom mindset--to meet the needs of the church's members. This book assists leaders in shifting from dominant models of leadership rooted in strategic planning--with mission and vision statements, desired outcomes, measurements along the way, and determined goals. It provides a praxis for beginning where people are, rather than where the leader wants them to go. Roxburgh and Romanuk give frank recognition to the fact that the shift from a consumer model to a missional mindset will almost certainly be stormy, disruptive, and disorienting. This is not a book of quick fixes and slick slogans, but one that sets out a comprehensive and in-depth treatment for a different way of leading. The Missional Leader is a critical commentary that needs to be read in the light of today's realities.
Starting Missional Churches
Author: Mark Branson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches and identify best practices while examining common challenges regarding their genesis.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches and identify best practices while examining common challenges regarding their genesis.