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Author : Inagrace Thoms Dietterich,Center for Parish Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Church
ISBN : OCLC:37221711
Author : Dwight Zscheile,Dwight J. Zscheile
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802867278
"Cultivating sent communities reimagines spiritual formation through the lens of mission, covering such topics as the role of Scripture, congregational discernment, and short-term missions and drawing on case studies from diverse contexts including Ethiopia, England, Leipzig, and San Francisco."--Back cover.
Author : Inagrace T. Dietterich
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597526173
This study resource focuses upon Christian practices: those behaviors by which congregations shape, teach, train, equip -- cultivate -- their identity, vision, and mission as Christian communities. Thus baptism, Eucharist, forgiveness, ministry, discernment, and worship are practices through which a people are formed in a distinctive way of life. Questions for reflection and discussion are included to stimulate use within groups for study, learning, and formation.
Author : Terence Schilstra
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781486621019
"Beyond the principles of this handbook, the heart and themes of the book articulate the faithful pilgrimage of a community on mission." ?Jesse Sudirgo Tyndale professor and Director of the Church in the City, Masters of Divinity Program "This book offers the reader genuinely practical step-by-step advice on what it looks like to lead a community on mission.? ?Jared Siebert New Leaf Network Peace of the City: A Handbook for Missional Communities offers a selection of missional practices for any Christian, small group, or missional community seeking to love their community in the name of Jesus. Each missional practice proceeds from the heart of Scripture, the life of Jesus, real life experiences, and the history of the church, including Benedictine and Franciscan missional practice.
Author : Ed Stetzer
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805456981
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.
Author : Burger Coenie,Frederick Marais,Danie Mouton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0864878753
Cultivating missional change reflects extensively on developments in the broad missional movement since the publication of the seminal book Missional church (1998). Purposely looking backwards, it endeavours to discern the way forward for missional theology and missional churches. This publication is the outcome of a conference on the future of missional theology and missional churches, held in 2015 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Noted missional theologians such as Darrell Guder, Patrick Keifert, Stefan Paas, Graham Cray and Coenie Burger are amongst the contributors. The book is much more than conference papers. Important themes concerning the future of being missional surfaced during the conference. The collection, therefore, includes ten chapters written afterwards, serving as an indispensable roadmap for the continuing conversation on central missional themes. Although critical of the way in which some missional views and practices developed, Cultivating missional change is convinced the term "missional" is just too important, too central and too meaningful for the Christian tradition to be abandoned. Cultivating missional change offers a clear understanding of being missional, and promotes a more biblical and well-defined grasp of the Christian church as a missional church.
Author : JR Woodward
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866793
Once upon a time, Moses had had enough. Exhausted by the challenge of leading the Israelites from slavery to the Promised Land, Moses cried out to God, "What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? . . . If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me" (Exodus 11:11, 15). If that sounds hauntingly familiar to you, you may be the senior pastor of a contemporary church. The burden of Christian leadership is becoming increasingly unbearable--demanding skills not native to the art of pastoring; demanding time that makes sabbath rest and even normal sleep patterns seem extravagant; demanding inhuman levels of efficiency, proficiency and even saintliness. No wonder pastors seem and even feel less human these days. No wonder they burn out or break down at an alarming rate; no wonder the church is missing the mark on its mission. In Creating a Missional Culture, JR Woodward offers a bold and surprisingly refreshing model for churches--not small adjustments around the periphery of a church's infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look, from its leadership structure to its mobilization of the laity. The end result looks surprisingly like the church that Jesus created and the apostles cultivated: a church not chasing the wind but rather going into the world and making disciples of Jesus.
Author : Reggie McNeal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118107584
The third book in the trilogy that explores the popular missional movement From Reggie McNeal, the bestselling author of The Present Future and Missional Renaissance, comes the third book in the series that helps to define and illuminate the popular missional movement. This newest book in the trilogy examines a natural outgrowth of the move toward a missional orientation: the deconstruction of congregations into very small Christian communities. For all those thousands of churches and leaders who have followed Reggie McNeal's bold lead, this book details the rise of a new life form in churches. Discusses how to move a church from an internal to an external ministry focus Reggie McNeal is a recognized leader in the missional movement Outlines an alternative to the program church model that is focused on the projects and passions of the congregants This book draws on McNeal's twenty years of leadership roles in local congregations and his work over the last decade with thousands of clergy and church leaders.
Author : Christine D. Pohl
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467431866
Every church, every organization, has experienced them: betrayal, deception, grumbling, envy, exclusion. They make life together difficult and prevent congregations from developing the skills, virtues, and practices they need to nurture sturdy, life-giving communities. In Living into Community Christine Pohl explores four specific Christian practices -- gratitude, promise-keeping, truth-telling, and hospitality -- that can counteract those destructive forces and help churches and individuals build and sustain vibrant communities. Drawing on a wealth of personal and professional experience and interacting with the biblical, historical, and moral traditions, Pohl thoughtfully discusses each practice, including its possible complications and deformations, and points to how these essential practices can be better cultivated within communities and families.
Author : Alan J. Roxburgh,Fred Romanuk
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506463346
In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J. Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk address two questions: "How do we do missional?" and "What does missional leadership look like?" Drawing on their many years of experience, the authors show readers how to bring God's word into the community outside the church's walls. They focus on how to lead missionally on the ground, in the local setting, even amid leaders' experience of massive change within the church and in the wider world. The challenge for many church leaders is that they are not equipped to lead a church in shifting from a consumer model of church to one that is missional. They were trained in a Christendom mindset--to meet the needs of the church's members. This book assists leaders in shifting from dominant models of leadership rooted in strategic planning--with mission and vision statements, desired outcomes, measurements along the way, and determined goals. It provides a praxis for beginning where people are, rather than where the leader wants them to go. Roxburgh and Romanuk give frank recognition to the fact that the shift from a consumer model to a missional mindset will almost certainly be stormy, disruptive, and disorienting. This is not a book of quick fixes and slick slogans, but one that sets out a comprehensive and in-depth treatment for a different way of leading. The Missional Leader is a critical commentary that needs to be read in the light of today's realities.
Author : Malan Nel
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781776341870
This scholarly book is the final result of a team-research project, done by ten Practical Theologians from three denominations in the Reformed tradition in South Africa. The authors posed the following research problem and-question: What would be the relationship (if any) between preaching (and the liturgy of which it is a part) and the development of missional congregations? And secondly, what kind of preaching and preacher would best serve (even facilitate) such a process of missional congregational development in preaching and worship?
Author : Darrell L. Guder,Lois Barrett
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802843506
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 : Mike Breen
Publisher : 3D Ministries
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780985235109
Author : Reggie McNeal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470243442
Reggie McNeal's bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the "missional movement," i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In that book he asked the tough questions that churches needed to entertain to begin to think about who they are and what they are doing; in Missional Renaissance, he shows them the three significant shifts in their thinking and behavior that they need to make that will allow leaders to chart a course toward being missional: (1) from an internal to an external focus, ending the church as exclusive social club model; (2) from running programs and ministries to developing people as its core activity; and (3) from professional leadership to leadership that is shared by everyone in the community. With in-depth discussions of the "what" and the "how" of transitioning to being a missional church, readers will be equipped to move into what McNeal sees as the most viable future for Christianity. For all those thousands of churches who are asking about what to do next after reading The Present Future, Missional Renaissance will provide the answer.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1939921023
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." -- Matthew 28:19 - 20 That's what it means to be missional- to be about the mission of Jesus, which is making disciples. As we make disciples, those disciples naturally form communities, and we call those communities churches. As the gospel spread throughout the region, churches sprang up in other areas, multiplying as more disciples were made. If starting and sustaining a multiplying movement of disciples and churches- under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit- is your calling, this implementation guide was designed with you in mind. Here we build on The Missional Journey book, allowing you to take the concepts further as you build your system using the basic framework laid out in the book: get ready, get going, stay with it, keep growing. However, it's not strictly linear: you can pick and choose your issues, prioritizing what you need in order to gain momentum. You can work through this guide with a cohort of influencers and practitioners. We provide descriptions of each of the key areas needed to start and sustain a multiplying movement- along with reflection questions that help you determine your actions steps.