Tentmaking

Author : Kurt T. Kruger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725265134

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Tentmaking by Kurt T. Kruger Pdf

Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place? It’s true. In Tentmaking, the widespread confusion and overall disagreement within the church regarding Paul’s self-support are exposed. Commonly held assumptions are removed from their entrenched positions and myths are debunked. In their place, Tentmaking offers an unadorned yet powerfully convincing presentation of Paul’s own self-disclosed reasons for intentionally selecting to support himself in some ministry contexts, but not others. This well-researched book provides answers to crucial questions that currently surround tentmaking, as well as a practical guide intended to lead to the recovery of biblical tentmaking within the church. Readers who pick up this book should be prepared to embark on an engrossing journey that will reward them with clarity on the often-misunderstood topic of Paul’s tentmaking.

Author : Patrick Lai
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830859573

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Tentmaking by Patrick Lai Pdf

Professional church planter Patrick Lai provides an in-depth reference for tentmakers--business-as-mission practitioners operating in regions of great antagonism to the Christian message. Those who are unfamiliar with the world of tentmaking will find valuable information to introduce them to the concept and to help in getting started. Designed to be a manual, Tentmaking is more than just an overview of questions and issues. This work will serve as an in-depth reference for existing tentmakers. This thoroughly researched collection is the result of interviews from over 450 people serving in the 10/40 window. It provides a unique viewpoint on missions, sharing proven, workable alternatives to conventional missionary life. Tentmaking provides an important and much needed resource to this specialized area of world missions.

Author : James Francis,Leslie J. Francis
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852443692

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Tentmaking by James Francis,Leslie J. Francis Pdf

Author : James W. Watson,Narry F. Santos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666739992

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Tentmakers by James W. Watson,Narry F. Santos Pdf

Tentmaking is a growing reality in Western society that necessitates more reflection and relevant response from pastoral and mission leaders. The need to consider bivocational or multivocational ministries is catalyzed by established congregations wrestling with decline in attendance, by new immigrant communities looking for sustainable ways to minister, and by misunderstanding or lack of information on the nature of this ministry approach. This need is also triggered by the urgency to address biblical, theological, and pragmatic issues of tentmaking that can forge a way forward for the Canadian church in the midst of an uncertain future. This volume seeks to forge a way forward as a result of the Canadian Multivocational Ministry Project (CMMP), a qualitative and community-based research project among tentmaking pastoral leaders across Canada. This research partnered with the Wellness Project @ Wycliffe, which uses online questionnaires to assess wellness in congregational ministry. The CMMP research report and the wellness findings form the basis of the multifaceted reflections in the book by Canadian scholars, researchers, and multivocational practitioners. This book offers an accurate pulse of the challenges, opportunities, and future of tentmaking in relation to Christianity and the church in these uncertain times.

Author : C. Neal Johnson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869473

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Business as Mission by C. Neal Johnson Pdf

Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures. But Christian companies and business leaders do not automatically accomplish missional purposes. BAM requires mastery of both the world of business and the world of missions, merging and contextualizing both into something significantly different than either alone. C. Neal Johnson offers the first comprehensive guide to business as mission for practitioners. He provides conceptual foundations for understanding BAM's unique place in global mission and prerequisites for engaging in it. Then he offers practical resources for how to do BAM, including strategic planning and step-by-step operational implementation. Drawing on a wide variety of BAM models, Johnson works through details of both mission and business realities, with an eye to such issues as management, sustainability and accountability. Business as mission is a movement with enormous potential. This book breaks new ground in how faith and work intersect and are lived out in crosscultural contexts, where job creation and community transformation go hand in hand. Come, participate in what may well be one of the most strategic mission paradigms of the 21st century.

Author : J. Christy Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579108892

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Today's Tentmakers by J. Christy Wilson Pdf

One million American Christians live and work abroad. They are not missionaries. These people are students, administrators, engineers, teachers, and doctors in other countries. They could be called ÒtentmakersÓ. Just as the Apostle Paul used his vocation, tentmaking, to finance his witness to the churches, so today's tentmakers support themselves with their own hands and minds, shining the light of Christ around them. ÒWe err,Ó suggests author J.Christy Wilson, Jr., Òwhen we assign personal evangelism at home to the lay Christian but missions work abroad only to the specialist.Ó Tentmaking is available to everyone. Today's Tentmakers is a handbook which is of value not only to the prospective tentmaker, but also to the Christian planning to travel overseas. You'll discover here information about foreign travel and employment, support organizations, language training, moving, cultural adjustment, and politics. Whether you are a student or teacher, housewife or doctor, Today's Tentmakers is an opportunity of adventure and service in God's work.

Author : Jonathan Lewis
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645081753

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Working Your Way to the Nations by Jonathan Lewis Pdf

Ever since the Apostle Paul had a job making tents to support his work of spreading the gospel, "tentmakers" have played an important role in the fulfillment of the Great Commission. This workbook is a practical guide to following in Paul's footsteps.

Author : Samuel Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725285170

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Faith in the Marketplace by Samuel Lee Pdf

Contemporary missions often include evangelistic and socio-economic dimensions. For effective missions, some way of assessing what is being achieved is needed beyond just the common metrics touching on the spiritual and/or economic which neglects social transformation that ideally should also be occurring. This book seeks to identify key factors for holistic evaluation based on salient characteristics that emerged as three Entrepreneurial Church Planting sites were studied in San Francisco (Redeemer Community Church), Selma, Alabama (Blue Jean Church), and Lynch, Kentucky (Meridzo Ministries). What emerges from these case studies is the importance of relationality, general emphasis on growth and development, and a well-established focus on holistic transformation. The mechanisms for the operation of holistic transformation are spelled out to reflect the operation of the three actors of the Trinity in missions. The practical component of the book is the conceptual framework that reveals the operation of holistic transformation and ways to measure the dynamic relationships that occur.

Author : J. Dudley Woodberry
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645081371

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From Seed to Fruit (Revised and Enlarged Second Edition) by J. Dudley Woodberry Pdf

The revised and enlarged second edition of J. Dudley Woodberry’s From Seed to Fruit expands on the next stage of the ongoing collaborative research and reflections of many people from many organizations desiring to bless Muslims. Seven additional chapters survey major trends in global Islam today and explore themes that prove to have considerable influence on fruitfulness, including a new chapter on building Christlike relationships with Muslims. The Global Trends Research Group has continued to update the demographic materials on Muslim people groups, their access to Christian witness, and when and how Christian groups covenant to provide meaningful access. From Seed to Fruit presents the most recent worldwide research on witness to Christ among Muslim peoples, using biblical images from nature to show the interaction between God's activity and human responsibility in blessing these peoples.

Author : Clay Reynolds
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425182703

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The Tentmaker by Clay Reynolds Pdf

"After the Civil War, the country had little use for Gil Hooley. He'd received no honors for his service, and made virtually no impact on the lives of his fellow men. But then, he'd never aspired to that. Left with no other means of survival, he journeyed out West with a wagonload of the finest canvas to put his skills to the test."--Back cover.

Author : Narry F. Santos,Mark Naylor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532675980

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Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World by Narry F. Santos,Mark Naylor Pdf

Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide. In this volume, missiologists and practitioners across Canada consider how an agenda of Christian mission and evangelism can be advanced in a secularizing environment. How can believers be “curious and engaged rather than defensive and fearful”? What changes are required from the evangelical community so that there is productive dialogue and action in ways that maintain faithfulness to the cause of Christ? What should the approach of mission be to a new generation steeped in secular narratives? How do we answer negative caricatures of Christian mission in light of the history of Residential Schools? What examples from the past teach us about developing an irenic approach? What positive trends are currently evident in Canada and around the world that counter the secularizing narrative? These questions and more are considered in this volume by Canadian scholars who recognize the importance of being relevant to society while maintaining integrity with the Gospel message. The essays address secularism in Canadian and worldwide contexts with seriousness, insight, and an underlying theme of hope, recognizing that “God’s mission has been accomplished, is being accomplished, and will be accomplished.”

Author : J. D. Payne
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830858804

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Discovering Church Planting by J. D. Payne Pdf

J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting, and suggests ways that readers can apply international church planting practices to their own contexts.

Author : Ronald F. Hock
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451417683

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The Social Context of Paul's Ministry by Ronald F. Hock Pdf

In this "slim, readable, and provocative volume" (Journal of Biblical Literature), Ronald Hock focuses on the apostle Paul and his work within the social and intellectual context of the Greek East of the early Roman Empire. Hock discusses the New Testament evidence concerning tentmaking in relation to Paul's life as an apostle of Christ. Relevant literary and nonliterary texts from outside the New Testament add detail to a picture of ancient society and open new areas for study. The author describes the typical experiences that arose from such a way of life – traveling, the tentmaking trade, the missionary use of the workshop, attitudes toward work, and Paul's own reflections on the significance of his tentmaking for the apostolic self-understanding.

Author : Andrew Scott
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802493026

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Scatter by Andrew Scott Pdf

"You were created for one purpose: live your life for God’s glory. You need no further special call. You have been created uniquely to do this uniquely, so work out what you’re passionate about, good at, and fit for, and go do it." — Andrew Scott In Scatter, missions innovator Andrew Scott sounds a call for a new era of missions, one that uses the global marketplace for gospel growth and sees every Christian—engineer, baker, pastor, or other—as God’s global image bearer. Andrew has served in over 52 countries and is the U.S. president of one of the world’s largest mission agencies. With eyes on a quickly-growing world and a slower-growing church, he sees that our traditional mission models simply won’t do. Here he gives a guide to change it up. Helping us see the grand narrative of Scripture and how each of us fits within it, he issues a compelling call: scatter.

Author : Glenn D. Deckert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532674556

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Working Abroad with Purpose by Glenn D. Deckert Pdf

The wise King Solomon gives us this proverb: “Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings” (Prov 22:29). This book won’t ensure that you and your professional skills end up meeting kings, but it will show how you and your training can be planted among unreached people abroad. By taking a job in your field of expertise, you gain far more than a paycheck; rather, a network of relationships with colleagues and neighbors. In doing so, you will learn that you are in good company with the Apostle Paul and thousands of other “tentmakers” in church history. Deckert draws on his tentmaking experience with his wife and children spanning twenty years and six countries. Readers will learn of a biology professor colleague in the Middle East who, on hearing the gospel over lunch, replied, “That’s different. That’s wonderful. No one ever taught me that before.” In another country, a nationally ranked chess player, after reading the Gospels, was moved to tears, saying, “He died for me. I’m a sinner.” This book takes you through twelve key areas of tentmaking, from finding a job to retirement.