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Christians Cultural Interactions And Indias Religious Traditions
$41.50Add to cartChristianity has long been one of India’s religious traditions, but the extent to which the faith has influenced Indian society and culture has never been well documented. This important book is the first to do so.
A group of historians, missiologists, and religion scholars examines the fascinating but little known history of missionary Christianity in India, showing how it has played a significant role in the development of modern India at every level. Chapters deal with the interaction between Christianity and India’s “high culture,” with aspects of conversion among tribal people and outcasts beneath the hierarchy of Hindu society, and with the development of Indian churches and their relation to the wider culture.
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UnFreezing Moves : Following Jesus Into The Mission Field
$22.99Add to cartAt the dawn of the third millennium two kinds of churches fill the Western landscape: stuck and unstuck. Most Protestant congregations are stuck in the muck and mire of their institutions with little or no movement toward joining Jesus on the mission field. To these “Controllers,” faithfulness means supporting their church and keeping it open. For churches to be faithful to their God-given mission, they need Dreamers who are freed from their slavery to their institutions, freed to live for others on the mission field, and emancipated to function in a constantly changing world. The same can be said for denominations. This book focuses on how to place disciple – making at the core of a church’s identity. He describes four spheres of congregational culture, and he shows how the Dreams can thaw their congregation by using Nine Unfreezing Moves that will unstick any church.
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Encountering Religious Pluralism
$35.00Add to cartThere’s nothing new about religious diversity. What has changed is the way we think about world religions. Netland examines the emerging pluralistic worldview now challenging traditional Christian faith and missions. His incisive analysis of the nature of religious truth gives you criteria for evaluating rival claims—and provides a framework for an evangelical theology of religions.
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Hope For The World
$28.00Add to cartHope for the world represents a new resolve and commitment to the global context for the ministry of the church. Missions, evangelism, and the theological education too often seem ill prepared to face the hopelessness commonly shared by both the northern and southern hemispheres. The older patterns of ministry, still unwittingly triumphalistic, cannot cope with the deeply rooted spiritual crisis that is manifested economically, plitically and militarily in the globalization of wealth.
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When The Saints Go Marching Out
$26.00Add to cartThis book challenges churches to see all their members as potential missionaries, and so to return full circle to the New Testament church model of ministry. Beals founds his practical advice about how to go about this in Trinitarian theology. Section One describes congregation-based mission; Section Two explains how to mobilize resources for mission creatively. Section Three suggests ways to train and care for volunteers, and Section Four discusses expanding mission once outreach has been established.
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Mack And Leeanns Guide To Short Term Missions
$25.00Add to cartHow can you and your team prepare for a short-term missions trip? These veteran leaders of trips all over the globe share field-tested advice nobody should go without. You’ll find practical tips, hard-won lessons, and hilarious stories about learning to trust God, your hosts, and yourself; growing a servant spirit; dealing with re-entry; and more.
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Azusa Street
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The great Azusa Street revival of the early 1900s began in a humble, run-down mission, with its makeshift “pews” that had been fashioned from planks and empty nail kegs. From this simple setting arose a powerful move of God that swept across the country and around the world. Is it possible to experience the same kind of life-changing revival today? Discover through Frank Bartleman’s eyewitness account what brought revival then and what will bring revival now. God is still looking for obedient hearts who long for His presence. Will you be a part of the coming revival? -
Go And Make Disciples
$17.99Add to cart280 Pages
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This book is especially helpful for adult study groups in the church, persons preparing for short term mission experiences, and college level introductory courses in missions. The excellant organization, well selected quotations for missions scholars, coupled with helpful review and discussion questions make this volume ideal for group learning. -
Witnesses To All The World (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartGod has always commissioned his people to be a blessing and witness to others. From Genesis to Revelation his love for the nations is clear. This study guide will enable you to see the world through God’s eyes and will motivate you to get involved in the awesome and joyful task of worldwide outreach. 9 Studies for Individuals or groups included. Harold Shaw Publishers.
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Continuing Conversion Of The Church
$29.99Add to cartAsserting that Western society is now “a very different, very difficult mission field,” Guder charts the church’s historical shift away from evangelism, examines cultural barriers to evangelical ministry, and presents a missional theology for contemporary believers. His practical insights are sure to spark lively discussion among those who take the Great Commission seriously.
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Speaking Of Jesus
$26.00Add to cartSpeaking of Jesus – How to Tell Your Friends the Best News They Will Ever Hear – will open your eyes to how ordinary people in commonplace situations can use everyday language to reveal the simple news about Jesus. A practical and helpful books on how to speak about Jesus so people will listen. If you worry about your unbelieving friends, read this book. It could change your life and theirs.
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Inside Out : Worship In An Age Of Mission
$22.00Add to cartApplying theology to worship and to the practice of liturgy, this innovative work reclaims the importance of word and sacrament as the center for the church’s life and witnesses. Drawing connections between liturgy and life, this collection deepens worship-life by helping congregations “to talk with each other about the ways we encounter the living God in worship;” and by strengthening “skills that enhance worship.” Worship in an Age of Mission addresses pastoral liturgical and sacramental issues at work in congregations today and offers a comprehensive vision for congregational life centered around word and sacrament.
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Following Jesus In The Hindu Context
$15.99Add to cartNarayan Vaman Tilak was raised in western India in a Brahmin family as a Hindu of the highest caste. He was an ardent nationalist and gifted poet. Baptized in 1895, he remained one of the most highly placed Hindu leaders to turn to faith in Jesus Christ. This book tells Tilak’s story as a pioneer in Protestant mission history.
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World Mission Manual 1-3
$49.99Add to cartBack by popular demand, this work was originally three volumes in length but is now reprinted as a single volume. This manual integrates essential and relevant articles from Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Reader, and the Perspectives Study Guide, leading the student into deeper, broader mission understanding and vision by covering the Biblical/historical foundations, the strategic dimensions, and cross-cultural considerations.
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Missional Church : A Vision For The Sending Of The Church In North America
$31.99Add to cartIn this post-Christian era, the focus of the North American church centers on the maintenance of the institution rather than on God’s mission. In this timely volume, six missiologists examine the church’s loss of dominance in today’s culture. Presenting a biblically based theology, they challenge the church to recover its missional vocation—here in North America.
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Confident Witness Changing World A Print On Demand Title
$32.99Add to cartHow do we make the gospel clear and the church relevant to postmodern, post-Christian culture in North America? Written by twenty-one scholars who are also skilled in doing frontline ministry, this volume discusses the radical cultural shift that has reshaped North America, one of today’s most important mission fields, and explores fresh methods for presenting the gospel with confidence amid the challenges presented by our contemporary context.
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Mission Possible : The Wonderful Story Of God And A Wycliffe Translator In
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The dynamic true story of Bible translator Marilyn Laszlo. Journey through the jungles of Papua New Guinea as she shares her adventures bringing the Word of God to the Sepik Iwam tribe.
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Transforming Culture : A Challenge For Christian Mission (Reprinted)
$26.00Add to cartIn this finely crafted book the author lays solid theoretical foundations for analyzing many of the intercultural misunderstandings that emerge in the everyday lives of those in global ministries. By careful analysis of case studies the author helps us apply these insights to your ministries, and guides us to biblically based and culturally sensitive responses to the difficult issues raised by cultural differences.
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Bearing The Witness Of The Spirit A Print On Demand Title
$35.99Add to cartWhat are the theological implications of today’s multicultural world? What does cultural plurality mean for the life and mission of the church? According to George Hunsberger, the need for a solid theological assessment of multiculturalism lies at the heart of discussions about church unity, cross -cultural mission, and interreligious relations. In Bearing the Witness of the Spirit Hunsberger shows that just such a “theology of cultural plurality” can be found in the missionary theology of Lesslie Newbigin.
This in-depth study of Newbigin’s thought brings into clear view the “theology of cultural plurality” nascent in Newbigin’s writings and demonstrates its importance for today’s church. Interacting closely with Newbigin’s published and unpublished works, Hunsberger describes Newbigin’s biblical rationale for the life and witness of the church in a culturally plural world. By teasing out Newbigin’s thinking in this realm, Hunsberger gives shape to a theological area of inquiry and reflection badly needed for fruitful discussions of cross-cultural mission and ecumenism.
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Journey To The Center Of The City
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Randy and Tina White, with their two young sons, left suburbia to join believers living in a disadvantaged area of Fresno, California. Through their family’s story you will learn more about God’s heart for the city, you’ll meet some of the people who live there, and you’ll see ways you might make a difference too. Includes discussion questions, 12 Bible studies on God and the city, and a list of 21 Things You Can Do to Love the City.
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Church Between Gospel And Culture A Print On Demand Title
$38.99Add to cartThis excellent collections of essays, written by a diverse group of Christian leaders working on the frontier of mission within the present North American context, lays the groundwork for the newly emerging missionary encounter fo teh gospel with North American culture.
Demonstrating that the missionary identity of the church is to be found at the intersection fo culture-gospel-church, these essays outlive the missionary agenda now before the church as it confronts North American assumptions, perspectives, preferences, and practices. -
History Of Christianity In Africa
$41.99Add to cartThis book examines the origins and development ofChristianity in Africa from the early story of EgyptianChristianity to the spectacular growth, vitality, anddiversity of the churches in Africa today.
The book opens with Christianity in Antiquity and shows howEgypt and N. Africa produced some of the most influentialintellects of the time. She then discusses the churchesfounded in the wake of early contacts with Europe, from thelate fifteenth century on, and the unbroken Christian witness of Coptic Egypt and of Ethiopia. Isichei also examines the different types of Christianity in modern Africa and shows how social factors have influenced its development and expression.
With the explosive growth of Christianity now taking place in Africa–393 million adherents projected by the year 2000- and the increasingly recognized significance of AfricanChristianity, this book fills the void in scholarly works onAfrica’s Christian past. -
Come Walk With Me
$18.99Add to cartCome Walk With Me will challenge and inspire you. It will grip, inform, and enertain you. And when you are finished reading, you will be changed. This is a story of medical missions and the untiring service of Christians who have committed their lives to helping others. But it is more then that. It is a story of lives- lives that know sorrow and happiness, illness and health, death and new life. It is the story of people who share the Good News of Jesus Christ wherever they go.
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Canon And Mission
$36.95Add to cartThis book’s theme is that the biblical canon, read as a whole or as a “unity of unities,” calls for a mission, and mission emerges from and always has need of the biblical canon for its witness in an to the world. Beeby proposes the Exodus theme as a way of understanding both the canonical unity of the Bible and Christianity’s mission in today’s world – a mission that must include interfaith diaglogue. The canon moves from creation, he writes, and this movement, restoration, and redemption is through a sent (missio) nation, son, and community.
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Jesus Weeps : Global Encounters On Our Doorstep
$22.99Add to cartHow can the church respond to the divisions within society that leave many persons marginalized? This book refocuses our notions of what mission is and suggests how local churches can immerse themselves in other cultural contexts.
North American Christians have become concerned with justice and human rights struggles of the third-world poor, but such “globalization” has not made connections with the poor of the first-world society who are overwhelmingly rooted in the inner cities of the nation. Recinos examines the meaning of globalization as reflected in Biblical and specific social histories.
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Eternal Word And Changing Worlds
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In this book, addressed to the “Western, white evangelical community,” Professor Conn drives home the need for a radical reevaluation of our Western models for theology and missions. The rise of non-Western and nonwhite theologies and the changes in our understanding of language, culture, and religions force upon us the realization of the inadequacy of our ethnocentric, abstracting approach to theology and missions -
Invitation To Cross Cultural Theology
$17.99Add to cartInvitation to Cross-Cultural Theology seeks to extend the study of theology to the way in which lay communities of Christians endeavor to shape their world by their faith. Using narratives of experiences with God as source material, Dyrness sets out to discover the framework, both explicit as well as implicit, that guides their lives as Christians. Testimonies are heard from five very different communities around the world. In the final chapter, the author discusses the various ways in which Christ and salvation are being addressed in these communities today.
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Planning Strategies For World Evangelization A Print On Demand Title (Revised)
$38.99Add to cartOver three billion people in the world have never heard the name of Jesus Christ.
The task of evangelizing these people seems monumental. In this major study of world evangelization, however, Edward Dayton and Donald Fraser view the world not as billions of individuals but as thousands of “people groups.”
The Dayton-Fraser strategy includes ten basic steps that analyze and define the goals in reaching these people groups and the obstacles standing in the way. Unlike other mission strategies, this approach incorporates the social sciences and basic management principles into the context of God’s sovereignty and of the church’s responsibility to evangelize the world.
The book includes a comprehensive bibliography reflecting the authors’ extensive research in theology, sociology, anthropology, and management.
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Contemporary Missiology A Print On Demand Title
$38.99Add to cartThis comprehensive introduction examines the place, significance, and scope of the practice of missiology, its biblical foundations, motives, goals, and methods. Particular consideration is given to Asian, African, and Latin American missions, and to the church’s mission to the Jews.
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Introduction To Missiology
$32.99Add to cartWhile teaching at Fuller School of World Mission, Tippett inspired and challenged the founding generation of “great commission” or “church growth” missiologists. This collection brings together almost 40 of his best writings. In a style that is both academic and personal, he deals first with missiological theory then with anthropological and historical dimensions of missiology. He then treats a number of specific missiological problems from these perspectives including seminal material on power encounters.
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Song Of Ascents
$36.99Add to cartIn this Song of Ascents not one single note is here by right. I deserve nothing; I have everything. God is the heart of this everything. I have everything – everything I need, and more. … What I had – Jesus, God, the Kingdom of God – was all I wanted and needed. I didn’t want anything different. I only wanted more of what I had. (from the Introduction)
The spiritual autobiography of E. Stanley Jones remains relevant for readers in any age, from any background, of any faith, in any place in the world. Jones’ message centers on the good news of Jesus Christ that Jones lived and preached around the world for 60+ years. This is Jones’ story of coming to know Jesus, following Jesus and proclaiming Jesus. Jones lived and ministered as a missionary throughout India which was his base. In India, he primarily preached to the intellectual class; however, his reach was to all Indians. He also traveled to just about every part of the world preaching Jesus–China, Japan, Europe, South America and the United States.
