Finding the Missional Path

Finding the Missional Path
Author: Barry E. Winders
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1602668175

Winders offers a spiritual path to congregations and pastors that leads to reclaiming a warm affection for Christ from which to develop ministry that is genuinely gracious, honestly loving, and eminently relevant to a world that has grown sore with cynicism. (Practical Life)

The Missional Church in Perspective (The Missional Network)

The Missional Church in Perspective (The Missional Network)
Author: Craig Van Gelder
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441232060

In this book, two leading ministry experts place the missional church conversation in historical perspective and offer fresh insights for its further development. They begin by providing a helpful review of the genesis of the missional church and offering an insightful critique of the Gospel and Our Culture Network's seminal book Missional Church, which set the conversation in motion. They map the diverse paths this discussion has taken over the past decade, identifying four primary branches and ten sub-branches of the conversation and placing over one hundred published titles and websites into this framework. The authors then utilize recent developments in biblical and theological perspectives to strengthen and extend the conversation about missional theology, the church's interaction with culture and cultures, and church organization and leadership in relation to the formation of believers as disciples. Professors, students, and church leaders will value this comprehensive overview of the missional movement. It includes a foreword by Alan J. Roxburgh.

A Light to the Nations

A Light to the Nations
Author: Michael W. Goheen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441214461

There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. Michael Goheen, a dynamic speaker and the coauthor of two popular texts on the biblical narrative, unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story. Goheen shows that the church's identity can be understood only when its role is articulated in the context of the whole biblical story--not just the New Testament, but the Old Testament as well. He also explores practical outworkings and implications, offering field-tested suggestions for contemporary churches.

Missional Church

Missional Church
Author: Lois Barrett
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998-02-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802843500

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.

Missional (Allelon Missional Series)

Missional (Allelon Missional Series)
Author: Alan J. Roxburgh
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441214593

The burgeoning missional church movement is a sign that believers are increasingly feeling the call to impact their communities, which is a good thing. But, says Alan J. Roxburgh, these conversations still prioritize church success over mission--how can being missional grow my church? But to focus on such questions misses the point. In Missional, Roxburgh calls Christians to reenter their neighborhoods and communities to discover what the Spirit is doing there--to start with God's mission. He then encourages readers to shape their local churches around that mission. With inspiring true stories and a solid biblical base, Missional is a book that will change lives and communities as its message is lived out.

Compelled by Love

Compelled by Love
Author: Ed Stetzer
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1596692278

Trusted missionologist Stetzer and pastor Nation challenge readers to look at love within the context of God, the church, and the lives of individual believers. They provide a basic theological grounding and a platform for personal application of missional living--simply the calling to love others.

Live the Call

Live the Call
Author: Wanda Lee
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2006
Genre: Missions
ISBN: 1563099942

The stories, Scriptures, and encouragement in Live the Call will help motivate adult Christians to understand, embrace, and live the mission of God.

Find Your Place in God's Mission

Find Your Place in God's Mission
Author: Jeremiah Gibbs
Publisher: Wesley's Foundery Books
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2020-04-29
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781945935756

A step-by-step guide for hearing and claiming God's calling for your life. For students, youth and young adult pastors, counselors, chaplains, and campus ministers to help students find clarity about how God has uniquely gifted them to participate in God's ongoing mission for the sake of the world. T

The Road to Missional (Shapevine)

The Road to Missional (Shapevine)
Author: Michael Frost
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441234292

It has recently become acceptable, and even fashionable, to refer to one's church as "missional." But many churches misunderstand the concept, thinking of "going missional" as simply being a necessary add-on to church-as-usual. This domestication of what is actually a very bold paradigm shift makes missional nothing more than one more trick to see church growth. With a light hand and a pastoral spirit, Michael Frost points out how church practitioners are not quite there yet. He reestablishes the ground rules, redefines the terms accurately, and insists that the true prophetic essence of "being missional" comes through undiluted. This clear corrective will take ministry leaders from "not missional yet" to well on their way.

The Missional Church in Perspective

The Missional Church in Perspective
Author: Craig Van Gelder
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801039134

Two ministry experts map the variety of missional church visions over the past decade, opening up new horizons for extending the conversation biblically and theologically.