Reformission

Author : Mark Driscoll
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310315117

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Confessions of a Reformission Rev. by Mark Driscoll Pdf

This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle’s innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America’s fastest growing churches located in one of America’s toughest mission fields. It’s also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he’s made along the way, and God’s grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll’s emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he’s not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches. Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church’s ministry, no matter its present size. The book includes discussion questions and appendix resources. “After reading a book like this, you can never go back to being an inwardly focused church without a mission. Even if you disagree with Mark about some of the things he says, you cannot help but be convicted to the inner core about what it means to have a heart for those who don’t know Jesus.”—Dan Kimball, author,The Emerging Church “... will make you laugh, cry, and get mad ... school you, shape you, and mold you into the right kind of priorities to lead the church in today’s messy world.”—Robert Webber, Northern Seminary

Author : Mark Driscoll
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310518006

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Reformission by Mark Driscoll Pdf

If the unchurched in the United States ever formed their own country, it would be the world’s eleventh most populous nation. Reformission is a call to reform a flawed view of missions—as something we only do in foreign lands—to focus on the urgent needs in our own neighborhoods, filled with diverse Americans who desperately need the Gospel of Jesus and life in his Church. It calls for a movement of missionaries who seek the lost across the street, as well as across the globe. Many evangelical churches today are either hostile to the unbelieving world in which they live, or so friendly with the surrounding culture that they have lost the unique claims of the gospel that alone have the power to change people. This basic primer on the interface between gospel and culture by #1 New York Times bestselling author and pastor Mark Driscoll will help you to carefully navigate between the twin pitfalls of syncretism (being so culturally irrelevant that you lose your message) and sectarianism (being so culturally irrelevant that you lose your mission). If you’re more convinced today than ever that this crazy, sin-sick world needs a Savior, Reformission will show you how to love the Lord through the unchanging gospel, and love your neighbor in our ever-changing culture.

Author : David Mark Rathel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630873721

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Baptists and the Emerging Church Movement by David Mark Rathel Pdf

In Baptists and the Emerging Church Movement, David Rathel examines the major ecclesiological proposals of the emerging church movement. Though many theologians argue that the emerging church movement emphasizes epistemology, Rathel contends that its primary concern is ecclesiology. Emerging church leaders offer a number of important ecclesiological proposals, including restructuring traditional church leadership models to accommodate the rise of postmodernity, changing the mission of the church so that the church may strike a more "missional" tone in contemporary culture, removing the categories of "in" or "out" within the church body, and adopting the multi-site church model. In assessing these proposals, Rathel draws upon historic Baptist convictions about the nature of the church, using Baptists' ecclesiological distinctives and long history of ecclesiological thought as a helpful reference point. This book will not only serve as a guide for those who wish to learn of emerging church ecclesiology, it will also be an aid to Baptists who wish to evaluate recent trends in ecclesiology in light of their denominational distinctives.

Author : Craig Van Gelder,Dwight J Zscheile
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441232060

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The Missional Church in Perspective (The Missional Network) by Craig Van Gelder,Dwight J Zscheile Pdf

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 : Jessica Johnson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822371601

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Biblical Porn by Jessica Johnson Pdf

Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn"—the affective labor of communicating, promoting, and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy, social imaginary, and biopolitical instrument. Johnson theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope, joy, shame, and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs.

Author : Mark A. Driscoll
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414383620

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A Call to Resurgence by Mark A. Driscoll Pdf

It’s tempting to believe that the Christian faith is alive and well in our country today. Our politicians talk about God. Our mega-churches are filled. Christian schools dot our landscape. Brace yourself. It’s an illusion. Believe it or not, only 8 percent of Americans profess and practice true evangelical Christian faith. There are more left-handed people than evangelical Christians in America. In this book, Mark Driscoll delivers a wake-up call for every believer: We are living in a post-Christian culture—a culture fundamentally at odds with faith in Jesus. This is good and bad news. The good news is that God is still working, redeeming people from this spiritual wasteland and inspiring a resurgence of faithful believers. The bad news is that many believers just don’t get it. They continue to gather exclusively into insular tribes, lobbing e-bombs at each other in cyberspace. Mark’s book is a clarion call for Christians. It’s time to get to work. We can only do this if we unite around Jesus and the essentials found in his Word, while at the same time, appreciating the distinctives within each Christian tribe. Mark shows us how to do just that. This isn’t the time to wait or debate. Join the resurgence.

Author : John F. MacArthur
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418508029

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The Battle for the Beginning by John F. MacArthur Pdf

The battle lines have been drawn. Is the enemy winning? "Thanks to the theory of evolution," writes best-selling author John MacArthur, "naturalism is now the dominant religion of modern society. Less than a century and a half ago, Charles Darwin popularized the credo for this secular religion. Naturalism has now replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world, and evolution has become its principal dogma." Many Christians who claim to believe that the Bible is God's revealed truth seem willing to allow modern scientific theories to replace the Genesis account of creation. Such compromises present a conspicuous danger. Bible teacher and pastor, John MacArthur, believes that in Genesis 1-3 we find the foundation of every doctrine that is essential to the Christian faith?the vital underpinnings for everything we believe. The Battle for the Beginning draws a clear line on today's theological landscape. "Everything in Scripture that teaches about sin and redemption assumes the literal truth of the first three chapters of Genesis. If we wobble to any degree on the truth of this passage," John MacArthur insists, "we undermind the very foundations of our faith."

Author : Mark Driscoll,Gerry Breshears
Publisher : Crossway Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433519658

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Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll,Gerry Breshears Pdf

Great for nonbelievers and new Christians, this work of popular-level theology introduces the person and work of Christ by answering a series of questions about Jesus. Now in paperback.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jess Bousa
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of a Wanna-Be Megachurch Pastor: I was wrong about the Seeker-Sensitive Movement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dino Rizzo
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310287636

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Servolution by Dino Rizzo Pdf

The idea of servolution is a revolution of serving others, and this resource provides practical ideas and strategies to get started.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education (Christian theology)
ISBN : WISC:89082349788

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Charis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ed Stetzer,David Putman
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805443592

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Breaking the Missional Code by Ed Stetzer,David Putman Pdf

The authors provide expert insight on church culture and church vision casting, along with case studies of successful modern missional churches.

Author : Robert J. A. Doornenbal
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 9789059726239

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Crossroads by Robert J. A. Doornenbal Pdf

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310297444

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Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches by Zondervan, Pdf

What are the beliefs of the new movement known as the emerging church? In thought-provoking debate, prominent emerging leaders John Burke, Mark Driscoll, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, and Karen Ward discuss their sometimes controversial views under the editorship of author and educator Robert Webber. Hear what they say about their views of Scripture, Christ, the atonement, other world religions, and other important doctrines, so you can come to your own conclusions about the emerging church.

Author : Alan J. Roxburgh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563381907

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The Missionary Congregation, Leadership, and Liminality by Alan J. Roxburgh Pdf

The urgent question for Christian mission in North America today has to do with churches and congregations and the crisis of their identity in the culture of modernity. According to Alan J. Roxburgh, the church has shifted from the center of culture to the margins. This text examines this shift and explores Victor Turner's work on liminality (a term describing the transition process that accompanies a change of state or social position).