Worship And Witness

Author : Michael J. Gorman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606085608

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Reading Revelation Responsibly by Michael J. Gorman Pdf

This volume deals with the varied forms of shame reflected in biblical, theological, psychological and anthropological sources. Although traditional theology and church practice concentrate on providing forgiveness for shameful behavior, recent scholarship has discovered the crucial relevance of social shame evoked by mental status, adversity, slavery, abuse, illness, grief and defeat. Anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists have discovered that unresolved social shame is related to racial and social prejudice, to bullying, crime, genocide, narcissism, post-traumatic stress and other forms of toxic behavior. Eleven leaders in this research participated in a conference on The Shame Factor, sponsored by St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Lincoln, NE in October 2010. Their essays explore the impact and the transformation of shame in a variety of arenas, comprising in this volume a unique and innovative resource for contemporary religion, therapy, ethics, and social analysis.

Author : David Wheeler,Vernon Whaley
Publisher : Lifeway Church Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Witness bearing (Christianity)
ISBN : 1415848564

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Worship and Witness by David Wheeler,Vernon Whaley Pdf

This study helps believers to cultivate a discipleship approach that embraces the values of worship and evangelism.

Author : James E. Beitler III
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830871209

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Seasoned Speech by James E. Beitler III Pdf

The Christian faith depends to a great degree on persuasion. In one of his letters to early Christians, the apostle Paul wrote, "Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone" (Col. 4:6). Yet rhetoric—the art of persuasion—has been largely ignored by most Christians. In this book, James Beitler seeks to renew interest in and hunger for an effective Christian rhetoric by closely considering the work of five beloved Christian communicators: C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Desmond Tutu, and Marilynne Robinson. Moreover, he situates these reflections within the Christian liturgical seasons for the essential truths they convey. These writers collectively demonstrate that being a master of rhetoric is not antithetical to authentic Christian witness. Indeed, being a faithful disciple of Christ means practicing a rhetoric that beneficially and persuasively imparts the surprising truth of the gospel. It means having seasoned speech.

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830893799

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Pictures at a Theological Exhibition by Kevin J. Vanhoozer Pdf

Many Christians are held captive by a picture of the imagination as a purveyor of false images, prone to idolatry. We live in a society fixated on images that have little or no significance. We are surrounded by models of the world that are not in touch with any truth outside of themselves. But we lack the resources to see and imagine things differently. Kevin Vanhoozer calls the church to a more biblical and premodern picture, one that sees every particular person, thing and event in the light of God's act of reconciling the world to himself in Christ. Through essays on the church's worship, witness and wisdom, Vanhoozer shows us how a poetic imagination can answer the questions of life's meaning by drawing our attention to what really matters: the God of the gospel.

Author : Prof. Tex Sample
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426748813

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Powerful Persuasion by Prof. Tex Sample Pdf

When it comes to communicating the gospel through new media and technologies, churches are often faced with one of two bad options. Either they can reject these new vehicles for sharing the faith as “not the way we’ve always done it”; or they can uncritically embrace them, failing to see that when not understood properly these media can obscure the gospel message just as much as they can communicate it. If they are going to reach the generations formed by electronic culture, churches must engage in a new evangelism, one that makes use of new technologies and cultural expressions. Sample explains how the electronic generations receive and process the information communicated by new media, and how the ways in which our consumerist culture makes use of those media are not good models for how the church can employ them to spread the message of Jesus Christ. Read the Introduction now!

Author : I. Howard Marshall,David Peterson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0802844359

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Witness to the Gospel by I. Howard Marshall,David Peterson Pdf

A distinguished group of scholars here provides a comprehensive survey of the theology of the early church as it is presented by the author of Acts. The twenty-five articles show the current state of scholarship and the main themes of theology in Acts.

Author : Matt Merker
Publisher : 9marks: Building Healthy Churc
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433569825

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Corporate Worship by Matt Merker Pdf

In this addition to the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series, Matt Merker explores the biblical understanding of corporate worship as an activity where God gathers the church by his grace, unto his glory, for their mutual good, and before the world's gaze.

Author : A. Grace Wenger,Dave Jackson,Neta Jackson
Publisher : Herald Press (VA)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0836134826

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Witness by A. Grace Wenger,Dave Jackson,Neta Jackson Pdf

Author : Kenneth J. Archer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606083444

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The Gospel Revisited by Kenneth J. Archer Pdf

This book is a constructive attempt at formulating a contemporary Pentecostal theology grounded in worship and witness. The theological vision expounded here is grounded in the Pentecostal story with its emphasis upon the fivefold Gospel. The doxological confession of Jesus as Savior, Sanctifier, Spirit Baptizer, Healer, and soon coming King provide the basic organizational structure of a Pentecostal narrative theology. Each chapter takes seriously these central convictions and allows them to shape, form, and reform various theological loci. Important issues such as methodology, hermeneutics, and theology as embodied worship and witness are addressed. The result is a vibrant and integrative theology fueled by a dynamic spirituality.

Author : Church Publishing
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898699630

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A Great Cloud of Witnesses by Church Publishing Pdf

A new and expanded volume of optional commemorations of significant figures in the history of the Episcopal Church. This volume replaces the popular Holy Women, Holy Men. By action of the 2015 General Convention, Great Cloud of Witnesses is being made available for devotional or catechetical use and for use in public worship throughout the Church. It reflects the lively experience of holiness, especially on the level of the local community. It is accordingly a useful tool for learning about the history of the church and identifying those who have inspired and challenged us from the time of the New Testament to the present. Each entry includes a biographical narrative of the person or people, highlighting the significance of their lives and witness. A devotional collect is provided in both Rite I and Rite II language and a set of indexing “tags” suggests how the entry fits into the broader scope of Christian history and delineates the Christian gifts and virtues that may have inspired the person’s ministries. This edition is printed on a special synthetic paper coated with a unique clay coating which combines the advantages of paper with the durability of plastic. This paper looks and feels like paper but stands up to water, weather, grease, chemicals and resists tearing in both directions.

Author : Thomas John Hastings
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666720037

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Worshiping, Witnessing, and Wondering by Thomas John Hastings Pdf

Focusing on educational ministries, Hastings offers a postcritical, synthetic approach to worshiping, witnessing, and wondering, grounded in scriptural ways of knowing God in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit. Here, lives marked by worship, witness, and wonder are understood not only to be harmonious with the evolutionary endowments of perception, action, and cognition, nor as well-attested practices of corporate and personal religious life, but also as a tripartite gestalt contingent on divine agency and mediated through participation in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Hastings describes worship, witness, and wonder as ways Christians participate with a sense of common cause in the mission of the God of love and life, who comes to us in Jesus Christ "clothed in his gospel" and in the power of the Holy Spirit, who has been "poured out upon all flesh."

Author : Roberta R. King
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493418107

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Global Arts and Christian Witness (Mission in Global Community) by Roberta R. King Pdf

Veteran missionary-scholar Roberta King draws on a lifetime of study and firsthand mission experience to show how witness through contextualized global arts can dynamically reveal Christ to all peoples. King offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks, and effective practices for communicating Christ through the arts in diverse contexts. Supplemented with stories from the field, illustrations, and discussion questions, this textbook offers innovative and dynamic approaches essential for doing mission in transformative ways through the arts. It also features a full-color insert of artwork discussed in the book.

Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802871763

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For All God's Worth by N. T. Wright Pdf

This insightful book by N. T. Wright explores both the meaning and the results of Christian worship. Part 1, "The God Who Is Worthy of Praise," focuses on what worshiping God actually means. Wright celebrates the greatness and beauty of God as the ground and reason for worship and shows how reflection on who God is leads us to true, heartfelt worship (from "worth-ship"), as we seek to give God all he's worth. Part 2, "Reflecting God's Image in the World," addresses a range of issues that flow from the activity of worship. Since worship can never remain isolated from the task of the church, Wright here explores how true worship leads to the mission of the church in various specific ways. Based firmly on sensitive and creative readings of the biblical text, this book is an inspiring call for renewal in the worship and witness of today's church.

Author : Jeremy S. Begbie,Steven R. Guthrie
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802862778

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Resonant Witness by Jeremy S. Begbie,Steven R. Guthrie Pdf

Resonant Witness gathers together a wide, harmonious chorus of voices from across the musical and theological spectrum to show that music and theology can each learn much from the other and that the majesty and power of both are profoundly amplified when they do. With essays touching on J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Olivier Messiaen, jazz improvisation, South African freedom songs, and more, this volume encourages musicians and theologians to pursue a more fruitful and sustained engagement with one another. What can theology do for music? Resonant Witness helps answer this question with an essential resource in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of music and theology. Covering an impressively wide range of musical topics, from cosmos to culture and theology to worship, Jeremy Begbie and Steven Guthrie explore and map new territory with incisive contributions from the very best musicians, theologians, and philosophers. Bennett Zon Durham University This volume represents a burst of cross-disciplinary energy and insight that can be celebrated by musicians and theologians, music-lovers and God-lovers alike. John D. Witvliet (from afterword)

Author : Frank C. Senn
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809133687

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The Witness of the Worshiping Community by Frank C. Senn Pdf

Contends that the church growth movement runs the risk of losing its roots in return for gaining members. He shows how churches should evangelize through authentic worship that puts people in touch with the source of Christian life. Especially pertinent for Protestant congregations.