Author: Woodrow Kroll
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825430633
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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(Revised and updated) A penetrating look at the state of vocational Christian ministry today and the difference we're making--or not--around the world.
Author: Christopher Sadowitz
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666764299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The contrast could not be greater. Paul said, “Let no one boast in men” (1 Cor 3:21), because it is only “God who causes the growth” (1 Cor 3:7). But today’s ministry is often platform-centered and program-bound. Jesus sent out the disciples “like sheep among wolves,” but today this “weak” approach is replaced with powerful techniques emphasizing attraction. The result is that ministry/mission thought and praxis are subverted in a way that makes the ordinary individual believer wonder if and how they are to be involved in God’s wonderful work. For Jesus, ministry was close and personal. He ate with friends, helped the hurting, and spoke the truth in love to any who would listen. Jesus embodied proclamation and ministry by depending on people (local resources), by being approachable and comprehensible (local tongues), and by spiritual gifts (the power of God). As weak and vulnerable as Jesus finds us, so does he desire to use us. Explore in this book the thought and practice of ministry and mission from the God-ordained and God-honoring perspective of vulnerable weakness.
Author: Patrick Johnstone
Publisher: Christian Focus
ISBN: 9781857922691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Patrick Johnstone shares his passion for mission with us, showing us that the Church is bigger than we think in terms of Time, Size and Structure. The book has emerged from years of ministry to Christian workers and leaders and seminars. It comprehensively takes the reader through every aspect of the growth of the church and is an excellent companion to 'Operation World'. It is rooted in scripture and will be an inspiration to us all.
Author: Richard N. Pitt
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814768245
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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One of the unique aspects of the religious profession is the high percentage of those who claim to be “called by God” to do their work. This call is particularly important within African American Christian traditions. Divine Callings offers a rare sociological examination of this markedly understudied phenomenon within black ministry. Richard N. Pitt draws on over 100 in-depth interviews with Black Pentecostal ministers in the Church of God in Christ—both those ordained and licensed and those aspiring—to examine how these men and women experience and pursue “the call.” Viewing divine calling as much as a social process as it is a spiritual one, Pitt delves into the personal stories of these individuals to explore their work as active agents in the process of fulfilling their calling. In some cases, those called cannot find pastoral work due to gender discrimination, lack of clergy positions, and educational deficiencies. Pitt looks specifically at how those who have not obtained clergy positions understand their call, exploring the influences of psychological experience, the congregational acceptance of their call, and their response to the training process. He emphasizes how those called reconceptualize clericalism in terms of who can be called, how that call has to be certified, and what those called are meant to do, offering insight into how social actors adjust to structural constraints.
Author: Bob Pearle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934749395
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In a powerful and refreshingly honest approach, Pastor Pearle looks realistically at the issues causing the growing irrelevance and weakness of churches today.
Author: Roopali Mukherjee
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814764029
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser have gathered an exemplary group of scholars to explore this new landscape through a series of case studies of “commodity activism.” Drawing from television, film, consumer activist campaigns, and cultures of celebrity and corporate patronage, the essays take up examples such as the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign, sex positive retail activism, ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover, and Angelina Jolie as multinational celebrity missionary. Exploring the complexities embedded in contemporary political activism, Commodity Activism reveals the workings of power and resistance as well as citizenship and subjectivity in the neoliberal era. Refusing to simply position politics in opposition to consumerism, this collection teases out the relationships between material cultures and political subjectivities, arguing that activism may itself be transforming into a branded commodity.
Author: Woodrow Michael Kroll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825430572
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Arthur W. Hunt
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625642652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Is image everything? For many people in our culture, image and images are everything. Americans spend hours watching television but rarely finish a good book. Words are quickly losing their appeal. Arthur Hunt sees this trend as a direct assault on Christianity. He warns that by exalting imagery we risk becoming mindless pagans. Our thirst for images has dulled our minds so that we lack the biblical and mental defenses we need to resist pagan influences. What about paganism? Hunt contends that it never died in modern Western culture; image-based media just brought it to the surface again. Sex, violence, and celebrity worship abound in our culture, driving a mass media frenzy reminiscent of pagan idolatry. This book is a clear warning that the church is being cut off from its word-based heritage, and that we are open to abuse by those who exploit the image but neglect the Word. Thoughtful readers will find this a challenging call to be critical about the images bombarding our sense and to affirm that the Word is everything.
Author: William Benke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317720113
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Is your church viable in the changing marketplace of today--and tomorrow? Today's church market is comprised of four cultural paradigms--Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional needs, moral perspective, and lifestyle. This implies significant changes for the church--new approaches to ministry and different methods of communication and interface. Church Wake-Up Call's unique “Ministries Matrix” approach provides effective management techniques to help you define and evaluate duties, priorities, and remedial actions for the future of your ministry in today's multigenerational context. Church Wake-Up Call will inform and enlighten you on these subjects: understanding and using the Ministries Matrix to define purposes and priorities for your church eirecting your ministry toward a particular age group without compromising the church's message increasing your church's visibility structuring your church's management organization creating an effective outreach program . . . and more! Although the book is oriented toward churches and their leadership and has been written largely from an evangelical Christian perspective, the descriptive information regarding each of the generational categories that comprise today's populace is applicable to all Christian organizations, whether they be evangelical or mainline Protestant, Catholic or parachurch. Similarly, the management system, which integrates defined purposes, priorities, and programming options into a well-coordinated plan of action, can be applied by all such organizations.
Author: Todd E. Johnson
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441215182
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A unique resource for identifying issues involved in Protestant pastoral ministry and adjusting pastoral approach to those issues.
