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PaperbackTogether for the City
How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements
by Neil Powell and John James
We need a bigger vision for the city.It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell andJohn James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...
PaperbackTransforming Discipleship
by Greg Ogden
Many churchgoers complain that their churches lack a coherent plan for discipleship and spiritual growth. In turn, many church leaders lament their lack of resources to build and manage effective programs to help people become fully devoted followers of Christ. In Transforming Discipleship Greg Ogden introduces his vision for discipleship, emphasizing that solutions will not be found in ...
PaperbackDiscovering Church Planting
An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting
by J. D. Payne
Foreword by David J. HesselgraveIn Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical, and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world.
This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting ...
PaperbackHermanas
Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence
by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist - Multicultural
God calls Latinas to lives of influence. He created his Latina daughters to partner with him, live into the incredible plans he has for eachof us, and walk in his grace and strength to help change this world. But many of us have heard cultural messages that make us doubt our adequacy. We have ...
PaperbackCounseling and Christianity
Five Approaches
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
Foreword by Eric L Johnson
Edited by Stephen P. Greggo and Timothy A. SisemoreWhat does authentic Christian counseling look like in practice?This volume explores how five major perspectives on the interface of Christianity and psychology would each actually be applied in a clinical setting. Respected experts associated witheach of the perspectives depict how to assess, conceptualize, counsel and offer aftercare to Jake, a hypothetical client with a variety of complex issues. ...
PaperbackDoing Asian American Theology
A Contextual Framework for Faith and Practice
by Daniel Lee
The American Society of Missiology Book Award Winner
"Asian American theology is about God revealed in Jesus Christ in covenantal relationship with Asian Americans qua Asian Americans. Thus, Asian American theology is about Asian Americans as well, as human covenant partners alongside of God."
In Doing Asian American Theology, Daniel ...
PaperbackSculptor Spirit
Models of Sanctification from Spirit Christology
by Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.
Foreword by Oscar García-JohnsonThe Holy Spirit is sculpting you.Like the work of an artist who molds a lump of clay into its intended shape, the Spirit's sanctifying work lies in shaping people into the image of Christ.Avoiding either a "Spirit-only" or a "Spirit-void" theology, Leopoldo Sánchez carefully crafts a Spirit Christology, which considers the role of God's Spirit in the life and mission of Jesus. This ...
PaperbackWhere the Nations Meet
The Church in a Multicultural World
by Stephen A. Rhodes
Ride the subway or a bus in New York, London, Los Angeles, or any number of other cities around the country or around the world, and you will be impressed by a cacophony of languages, a crazy quilt of skin colors and a ceaseless array of culturalhistories. Excitingly and sometimes confusingly, this is the world the church now serves.Pastor Stephen Rhodes, in whose congregation thirty-two nationalities ...
PaperbackChurchNext
Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry
by Eddie Gibbs
- A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year
What will the church be next? CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity. While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known church strategist ...
PaperbackThe Hispanic Challenge
Opportunities Confronting the Church
by Manuel Ortiz
"The Sleeping Giant" is the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S.--the Hispanic community. Hispanics, especially Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans, are changing society and the church. As a second-generation Puerto Rican, born and reared in El Barrio of New York City, Manuel Ortiz knows first-hand what it is like to be a Hispanic in the U.S. As a sociologist, he recognizes the exciting potential ...
