The Missional Church In Context
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| Author | : Darrell L. Guder |
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Craig Van Gelder |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2007-08-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441200592 |
In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose and strategies of the church are derivative dimensions, the activities that flow naturally from the church that is focused on Spirit-led ministry. The Ministry of the Missional Church leads pastors, ministry leaders, and laypersons through three simple arguments--the church is; the church does what it is; the church organizes what it does--in order to make sense of how missional churches work. And by focusing the work of the church as the work of the Triune God, this unique book will change the way readers think about the church and the world.
| 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.
| Author | : Craig Van Gelder |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2007-10-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802845673 |
The missional church conversation continues to make a vital contribution to thinking about congregations and their contexts, addressing the essential question What does it really mean to be church? This book offers substantial, clarifying insights into that ongoing dialogue. Contributors: Mark Lau Branson James Tzu-Kao Chai Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier Terri Martinson Elton Scott Frederickson Joon Ho Lee Gary M. Simpson Craig Van Gelder
| Author | : Ross Hastings |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2012-07-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830863486 |
Building on the works of David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin and others, Ross Hastings delivers a comprehensive theology of mission founded on the trinitarian doctrine of God and a great optimism about the possible re-evangelization of the Western world.
| Author | : JR Woodward |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2013-09-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830866795 |
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.
| Author | : Mark Branson |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2014-07-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830896562 |
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.
| Author | : Milfred Minatrea |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2012-06-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1118429419 |
Discover the tools to create a new kind of church and move from merely surviving to thriving. Drawing on an extensive two-year field study of 200 churches from a variety of denominations and geographic regions, Milfred Minatrea--a missiologist, urban strategist and practioner in minister--presents the best practices for re-energizing Christian spirituality in a congregational setting. He provides readers with the tools for assessing their congregation’s position on the continuum between maintenance and mission and for determining the actions that will move them toward becoming a missional community. He also outlines key strategies that successful churches have used to become relevant in a postmodern society without losing what is distinctly Christian in their spiritual practices. Milfred Minatrea (Irving, TX) is Director of the Missional Church Center for the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
| Author | : Stephen B. Bevans |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2011-10-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1630879606 |
Scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Oceania reflect in this volume on the importance of contextual theology for our twenty-first century. Contextual theology offers fresh voices from every culture, and not just from the West. It calls for new ways of doing theology that embrace cultural values, but at the same time challenges them to the core. And it opens up new and fresh topics out of which and about which people can theologize. If the church is to be faithful to its mission, it needs to provide a feast at which all can be nourished.
