Missions
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Urban Christian : Effective Ministry In Todays Urban World
$28.99Add to cart1. From The Cowsheds To Chicago
2. The Lord Is Shaking Up The World
3. We Never Did It That Way Before
4. A Theology As Big As The City
5. Building Decision-Making Muscle
6. Into The Community
7. Worship Work And Witness
8. Bringing Up A Family In The City
9. Networking The World
10. Do It YourselfAdditional Info
For over twenty years Bakke and his family have worked with and loved the people of today’s cities, bringing a message of faith and hope. He knows how the city works and how it can be used to the advantage of the gospel. He knows how people hurt too, and he knows how Christianity can heal and make whole. Now he offers us the basic building blocks we need to love this young, rootless, mobile, media-tuned population. Here is practical, time-tested wisdom on what the church can and is doing in worship, work and witness. Bakke’s biblical perspective is enriched by years of study and worldwide travel. He believes the church can and must train people to live with and minister to the hurting rich and the hurting poor of the city. -
Speaking Of Jesus
$26.99Add 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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Choices At The Heart Of Technology
$34.95Add to cartWhat really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the masculine “voice and structure” of so much technology, the obsession with control that obliterates both recognition of human fallibility and sensitivity to the needs of “the other,” the inadequacies of technologies that fail to take account of the “wholeness” of life and what might constitute “justice” (right relationships) within the human community and with nature, and the impact of information and communication technologies on our ways of relating to one another.
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Keith Parks : Breaking Barriers And Opening Frontiers
$12.25Add to cartPreface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Chapter 1. Pushing To The Frontier Of Missions
Chapter 2. From The Texas Plains To Indonesia’s Islands
Chapter 3. Missionary On Administrative Assignment
Chapter 4. Double-Edged Crisis For Parks And For Baptists
Chapter 5. Shaping A New Pioneer Outreach
Chapter 6. The Legacy Of Keith ParksAdditional Info
Great movements in the history of Christian missions often have started with few people perceiving their eventual importance. Such was the case when Dr. R. Keith Parks led Baptists to unprecedented engagement of the least-evangelized peoples of Asia and North Africa in the mid-1980s.This biography of Keith Parks introduces one of the premier mission leaders of the twentieth century. Parks has served in Baptist global missions for 45 years, first as missionary, administrator, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Foreign Mission Board, and then as Global Missions Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
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Getting Sent : A Relational Approach To Support Raising
$27.99Add to cartYou’ve heard God’s call to serve in the mission field—but how do you raise support? Start by learning the proven methods explained in this handbook. You’ll gain a biblical perspective and discover what motivates people to give. Provides practical, step-by-step instructions; examines ethnic contexts; and addresses the unique challenges faced by women.
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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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Another City
$36.95Add to cartWhat is the church, and what is essential to it particularly in a post-Christian age? In contrast to “the City,” that is, the world(including the hedonism and narcissism of popular culture) that virtually all human beings now inhabit, the author calls upon the church to remember that it is “Another City” that does not compromise itself by giving allegiance to any political entity that belongs to this world. Instead, the church has the courage to live, like Isreal of old, in the diaspora as distinct minority, remaining an uncompromising and faithful servant of God’s final(though still future) triumph in the risen Christ.
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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
$15.99Add to cartTyndale House Print On Demand Title
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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Speaking The Truth In Love
$29.95Add to cartHow can the Christian faith be translated into new languages and into new cultural forms? How much of Christian faith is culturally conditioned and how much is universal? What role should the Bible play in encouraging or in limiting diverse expressions of Christian faith? What does it mean to speak of the gospel as truth in a world that declares that religious speech can never be true, but only “true-for-me”?
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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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Making Christ Known A Print On Demand Title
$35.99Add to cartJohn R. W. Stott writes: “Important findings of international consultations ought not to be lost. Here are significant discussions of such crucial issues as gospel and culture, simple lifestyle and the relationship between evangelism and social responsibility.”
During the fifteen-year period from 1974 to 1989 the Lausanne Movement produced a number of key mission documents that are gathered in this anthology. Beginning with the Lausanne Covenant and ending with the Manila Manifesto, these vital mission documents have so far been available only as Lausanne Occasional Papers. Now they are bound together in a convenient book format and made available to missiologists, missionaries, local church leaders, and readers from a spectrum of related disciplines. Each of the documents is presented here with its historical integrity intact, the only addition being a historical introduction by John R. W. Stott.
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Missionary Congregation Leadership And Liminality
$29.95Add to cartThe 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).
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Theology As Big As The City
$28.99Add to cart“As we look at the world – class cities around our planet, we face five new urban realities: a crack cocaine epidemic, assault weapons, massive numbers of homeless children, HIV/AIDS and (in the U.S.) what Time magazine has called ‘the browning of America.’ The needs of the urban population are greater than ever.” How does God see the city? What does Scripture have to say about urban ministry? Here is a biblical theology beginning with Genesis and continuing through to Revelation that will constantly surprise and challenge you.
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Images Of The Church In Missions
$19.99Add to cartThe Bible shows that the very existence of the church is grounded in God’s saving mission. The church is a visible demonstration of the reign of God, his “experimental plot” in the midst of history, pointing toward the restoration of all things.
Driver offers studies of 12 biblical images for understanding the church. They steer us toward a church more in harmony with God’s missionary purpose for his people, and toward a mission solidly based in the biblical vision of peoplehood. These images communicate with power and clarity, reflecting the sense of identity in early Christian communities. In our own time, such images can inspire the church to live up to its reason for being. The images the church uses to understand itself will largely determine what the church will become.
Driver explores images of pilgrimage, of God’s new order, of peoplehood, and of transformation. By its calling, the church must be in mission. The church needs the vital sense of identity inspired by these biblical images to serve God’s saving purpose for all creation.
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Journey To The Center Of The City
$18.99Add to cartIVP Print on Demand Title
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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Mission On The Way
$35.00Add to cartFor the past thirty years mission theology has taken a backseat to mission practice. Recently, however, people of all theological stripes have begun to reexamine the theological presuppositions that underlie the mission enterprise. In Mission on the Way Charles Van Engen masterfully articulates the contours of mission theology.
The result is a complete investigation of evangelical mission theology as it relates to (1) biblical and narrative theology, (2) cultural context, (3) ecclesiology, (4) world councils, (5) religious pluralism, (6) interaction with competing theologies, and (7) the overall task of ministry.
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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. -
Word In Season A Print On Demand Title
$24.99Add to cartThis collection of seventeen never-before-published essays, sermons, and addresses by Lesslie Newbigin, one of the premier missiologists of the twentieth century, puts forth his developing view of the agenda for Christian mission from 1960 to 1992. Considered “the quintessence of Newbigin’s thought” by editor Eleanor Jackson, these papers record the dynamics of Newbigin’s ideas about mission as he confronted new issues in the church and society.
Newbigin’s sermon at Riverside Church in New York City in 1960 opens discussion on the themes of unity in mission, changes in the missionary enterprise, and developments in the theology of mission. A second group of articles addresses specific “frontline” situations: mission in the modern city, the pastor’s role in the inner city, and future of the parish church. Newbigin then moves to frontier concerns: the resistance of modern society to the gospel, the cultural captivity of the church, and the consequences of witness in a world of religious and ideological pluralism – themes central to many of his full-length books. Finally, Newbigin sets the agenda for mission as the church approaches a new millennium.
Spanning three significant decades in the history of church outreach, A Word in Season offers an important perspective on the course of Christian mission and provides valuable instruction to those who struggle with the missionary task today.
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Missionary Conquest : The Gospel And Native American Cultural Genocide
$29.00Add to cartGeorge Tinker’s probes into U.S. mission history pierce the romantic veil of most history writing and show how four of the most noted Christian missionaries, men of the highest moral character, the best of intentions, and sincere commitment to the gospel, confused gospel values and European cultural values, often with lethal results.
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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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Wonder O The Wind
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This richly textured account of the life of a unique man of God has already thrilled readers by the thousands. Now Kregel Publications has the privelege of reissuing it as a companion volume to the same author’s spiritual biography, the popular God Is My Delight.
Phillip Keller- author, naturalist, agriculture specialist and wildlife photographer- recounts his adventurous life in this testimony of how God’s Spirit guides even the willful into His ways.
Born and raised in East Africa, Keller grew up with an intense love for the land, its wildlife and its people. For a time he was inclined to disbelief and cynicism by the way the world distorts and abuses God’s handiwork- and he struggled to exert his own will against society’s pressures, sometimes even against society’s pressures, sometimes even against the will of God.
Finally, the Wind of God’s Spirit has his wondrous way. The author tells the gripping story of God’s loving but abrupt intrusion into his self-centered life. He relives his trek back to Africa and eventually around the world in His service. A vibrant love for life, for God, and for His word, pulsates through this fascinating story of how one man’s will was brought into harmony with the will of God.
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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
$19.99Add to cart372 Pages
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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
$24.99Add 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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Communicating Christ Cross Culturally Second Edition (Reprinted)
$29.99Add to cart45 Chapters
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This revised edition of Dr. David Hesselgrave’s great work Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally updates the original edition and interacts with the most recent literature on this increasingly important topic. The original edition went through fifteen printings and, very deservedly, has come to be one of the most widely used textbooks on Christian cross-cultural communications. The revisions in this new edition are extensive and carry on the high level of discussion maintained throughout the original edition, taking into account, for example, the current discussion on the relationship between form and function and the enormous body of literature that has sprung up recently on contextualization. To enhance the volume’s usefulness for students, Dr. Hesselgrave has added an extensive bibliography of twenty-five pages on various aspects of cross-cultural communications. This revision of Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally is superb. It raises a great book into a unique category, undoubtedly the finest book on this topic available today. -
City Of God City Of Satan
$26.99Add to cartWhy is the city a battleground of hostile principalities and powers? What is the mission of the church in the city? How can the church be supported in accomplishing that mission? These are the questions that Robert Linthicum treats in his comprehensive and probing biblical theology of the city. In the Bible the city is depicted both as a dwelling place of God and his people and as a center of power for Satan and his minions. The city is one primary stage on which the drama of salvation is played out. And that is no less the case at the end of this pivotal century as megacities become the focal point of most human activity and aspirations around the world. This is a timely theology of the city that weaves the theological images of the Bible and the social realities of the contemporary world into a revealing tapestry of truths about the urban experience. Its purpose is to define clearly the mission of the church in the midst of the urban realities and to support well the work of the church in the urban world.
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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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On The Far Side Of Liglig Mountain
$19.99Add to cartOn the Far Side of Liglig Mountain is a book that will take you lands away to the mysterious “closed” kingdom of Nepal, where its author, Thomas Hale, and his wife, Cynthia, have struggled to serve God as medical doctors. With beguiling humor and humility, Dr. Hale recounts his often amazing (and sometimes almost unbelievable) experiences in bringing western medicine to people who distrust — even fear — the introduction of ideas different from their own. He and his family work as a team to dispel that distrust and fear, and in the process have experienced incredible adventures. On the Far Side of Liglig Mountain is a book about – faith and courage – laughter and loving your neighbor – the hardships and the blessings of self-denial — a book that you will not easily lay aside. Just as he has gained the trust and affection of his Nepalese patients and neighbors by his love for people and his eagerness to share his love of Christ, Thomas Hale will captivate the reader with his intriguing account of the joys and realities of ministering to the human condition.
