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.

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.

The Missional Church and Leadership Formation

The Missional Church and Leadership Formation
Author: Craig Van Gelder
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802864937

In this volume the third book in the Missional Church series eminent missional church expert Craig Van Gelder continues to track and contribute to the expanding missional church conversation, inviting today s brightest minds in the field to speak to key questions concerning church leadership.

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.

Planting Missional Churches

Planting Missional Churches
Author: Ed Stetzer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0805456988

Planting Missional Churches is an instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches. It addresses the “how-to” and “why” issues of church planting by providing practical guidance through all the phases of a church plant while taking a missional look at existing and emerging cultures.

Theology of Mission

Theology of Mission
Author: John Howard Yoder
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830871934

John Howard Yoder, author of The Politics of Jesus, was best known for his writing on Christian pacifism. This volume—based on lectures recorded in 1973—shows he was a profound missiologist as well. Yoder weaves together biblical, theological, practical and interreligious reflections to think about mission beyond Christendom.

The Mission of the Church

The Mission of the Church
Author: Craig Ott
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493405772

Leading Voices from across Christian Traditions Discuss the Mission of the Church What is the mission of the church? Every seminarian and church leader must wrestle with that question. No matter what designation a church uses to describe itself, it must also think critically about why it exists and what it should be doing. In this book, five leading voices representing a range of Christian traditions engage in an enlightening conversation as they present and compare their perspectives on the mission of the church. Each contributor offers his or her view and responds to the other four views. Contributors include Stephen B. Bevans, Darrell L. Guder, Ruth Padilla DeBorst, Edward Rommen, and Ed Stetzer. The book's format is ideal for classroom use and will also benefit pastors and church leaders.

The Ministry of the Missional Church

The Ministry of the Missional Church
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.

The Permanent Revolution

The Permanent Revolution
Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1118173589

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.

Creating a Missional Culture

Creating a Missional Culture
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.