A Jesus-Shaped Life

A Jesus-Shaped Life
Author: Rob Rognlien
Publisher: Crowdscribed LLC
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997305807

The People of God

The People of God
Author: Trevor Joy
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433683717

The most powerful asset a church has is it’s people. People of God is a challenge to the men and women of the church. It is a challenge to believe what God says about his people still applies to the church today. It is a challenge not to settle for church as just a program. It is a challenge to return the ministry of God to the people of God. People of God lays out the theology and practice of community. Authors Spence Shelton and Trevor Joy seek to show why community is central to the Christian life, and how to practice it in the 21st century church. Whether you are a pastor or a volunteer leader, People of God aims to equip and encourage congregations as they build a culture of discipleship in the life of their church. The authors draw on experiences and learnings from their time leading two of the fastest growing congregations in America to give you principles that can apply in a church of 50 or 15,000.

Missional Renaissance

Missional Renaissance
Author: Reggie McNeal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009-02-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0470243449

Reggie McNeal's bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the "missional movement," i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In that book he asked the tough questions that churches needed to entertain to begin to think about who they are and what they are doing; in Missional Renaissance, he shows them the three significant shifts in their thinking and behavior that they need to make that will allow leaders to chart a course toward being missional: (1) from an internal to an external focus, ending the church as exclusive social club model; (2) from running programs and ministries to developing people as its core activity; and (3) from professional leadership to leadership that is shared by everyone in the community. With in-depth discussions of the "what" and the "how" of transitioning to being a missional church, readers will be equipped to move into what McNeal sees as the most viable future for Christianity. For all those thousands of churches who are asking about what to do next after reading The Present Future, Missional Renaissance will provide the answer.

Creating a Missional Culture

Creating a Missional Culture
Author: JR Woodward
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830866795

Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a blueprint for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.

Christ's Empowering Presence

Christ's Empowering Presence
Author: Gary Tyra
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-06-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830856250

Christ's Empowering Presence looks at the Spiritual Disciplines through the eyes of both classical and contemporary writers, a process that changed the author's life.

Experiential Worship

Experiential Worship
Author: Bob Rognlien
Publisher: Quiet Times for the Heart
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781576836637

Provocative and practical, this guide will equip pastors to build a more effective and heartfelt worship service that churches of all sizes will be able to implement for years to come.

Missional Church

Missional Church
Author: Darrell L. Guder
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998-02-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802843500

What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Alan J. Roxburgh, and Craig Van Gelder. The result of a three-year research project undertaken by The Gospel and Our Culture Network, this book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America, while also offering the tools to help it do so. The authors examine North America s secular culture and the church s loss of dominance in today s society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the church s missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.