The Moment of Christian Witness

The Moment of Christian Witness
Author: Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681495236

Balthasar puts his finger on the precise origin of all those elements in modern Christianity which see the real Jesus Christ as unknowable, the Gospels as merely the confused reflections of later Christians, and Christian tradition as a perpetuation of the mythology.

A Credible Witness

A Credible Witness
Author: Brenda Salter McNeil
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 144299245X

Evangelist and teacher McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims. Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman gives the full picture of reconciliation with God and with one another.

Evangelism in the Early Church

Evangelism in the Early Church
Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2023-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467465623

Now a modern classic, Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church shows how the first Christians worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world. Studying the New Testament and church fathers, Green explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news. He also considers the obstacles to evangelism, using outreach to Gentiles and to Jews as examples of differing contexts for proclamation. Thoroughly informed by primary sources, this book will help contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision.

Christian Social Witness

Christian Social Witness
Author: Harold T. Lewis
Publisher: Cowley Publications
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2001-01-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 146166053X

In this volume of The New Church’s Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium. Beginning with the Bible’s understandings of social justice, Lewis summarizes the Anglican witness of theologians like F. D. Maurice and William Temple and goes on to discuss the Episcopal Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later chapters discuss the challenges of a new social order that face the church today raised by liberation theology, third-world debt and economic justice, and questions of race, gender, and human sexuality. As with each book in The New Church’s Teaching Series, recommended resources for further reading and questions for discussion are included.

Worldview for Christian Witness

Worldview for Christian Witness
Author: Charles H. Kraft
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 087808648X

In Worldview for Christian Witness, Charles Kraft invites readers to understand REALITY as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptions on which they are based.

Christian Witness in a Postmodern World

Christian Witness in a Postmodern World
Author: Harry Lee Poe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A professor of religion asserts that the difficulties faced in communicating the gospel are as much an opportunity as they are a challenge. This book analyzes contemporary trends in American cultural life related to what those who don't attend church know about Christianity and how they think about questions of ultimate meaning.

Picturing Christian Witness

Picturing Christian Witness
Author: Stanley H. Skreslet
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006-05-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802829566

Christian mission in previous centuries often drew on images of imperial expansion and war. While few today would describe the gospel task in such imperialistic terms, have we developed appropriate alternate images to associate with the good news of Jesus Christ? In "Picturing Christian Witness" missiologist Stanley Skreslet searches for new, more holistic images of mission from Scripture. Undertaking a novel exegetical study of mission in the New Testament, he highlights five actions that depict the witness of Jesus' first followers: announcing good news, sharing Christ with friends, interpreting the gospel, shepherding, and building/planting. After carefully examining key biblical passages, Skreslet draws out the implications of these five images for the theology of mission and lets each image take shape visually through an array of Western and non-Western art. "Picturing Christian Witness" will provoke readers to imagine what mission will look like when actively embodied by contemporary disciples of Jesus.

Witness of the Body

Witness of the Body
Author: Michael L. Budde
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802862586

"Beginning with the persecution of early Christians by the Roman Empire, Witness of the Body explores the place of martyrdom in the church through all ages -- and into the future. Throughout, it reminds readers that Christian martyrdom is neither a quick ticket to heaven nor a cheap political ploy, but rather the firm and faithful witness of Christ's church in a hostile world."--From publisher description.

Questioning Evangelism, 3rd edition

Questioning Evangelism, 3rd edition
Author: Randy Newman
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0825470242

You don't need to memorize evangelical formulas or answers. You just have to be willing to ask questions. There was something different about the way Jesus communicated with the lost: He didn't force answers upon people; He asked questions. So why don't we? Campus ministry veteran Randy Newman has been using a questioning style of evangelism for years. In this thought-provoking book, he provides practical insights to help Christians engage others in meaningful spiritual conversations. To Newman, asking questions challenges how we think about unbelievers, their questions, and our message, instead of telling unbelievers what to think. A perennial best-seller, this third edition includes both revisions of current chapters, such as an expanded discussion on LGBTQ+ issues and the debate on transgenderism, and new chapters that ponder issues such as science and suffering. "Distilled out of twenty years of personal evangelism, this book reflects both a deep grasp of biblical theology and a penetrating compassion for people--and finds a way forward in wise, probing questions. How very much like the Master Himself!" --D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School "Questioning Evangelism steps outside the boundaries of evangelism as usual and tackles the tougher issues of our modern day." --Mitch Glaser, Chosen People Ministries