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  • Why Church?: A Basic Introduction, By Scott W. Sunquist
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    Why Church?

    A Basic Introduction

    by Scott W. Sunquist
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw

    • 2020 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Church)

    Is a church just something we create to serve our purposes or to maintain old traditions? Or is it something more vital, more meaningful, and more powerful? This can be hard to believe when we look at what happens in any one congregation or denomination. Certainly not all churches act like ...

  • Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South, By Oscar García-Johnson
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    Spirit Outside the Gate

    Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South

    Missiological Engagements

    by Oscar García-Johnson

    Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry ...

  • Making All Things New: God's Dream for Global Justice, By R. York Moore
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    Making All Things New

    God's Dream for Global Justice

    by R. York Moore

    Often this world seems like a nightmare. Human trafficking, young girls trapped in brothels, child soldiers forced to become killers, unchecked plagues and diseases, economic injustice and the oppression of the poor. Millions around the world aretrapped in this nightmare, and we may feel helpless to do anything about it.But God has a dream. York Moore paints a vivid picture of how the dream of God ...

  • The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context, By John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
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    The Lost World of the Torah

    Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton

    Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect.

    On the one hand, controversy arises when Old Testament laws seem either odd beyond comprehension (not eating lobster) or positively reprehensible (executing children). On the other, neglect results when we consider the law obsolete, no longer carrying any normative power (tassels on clothing, ...

  • Bound for the Promised Land, By Oren Martin
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    Bound for the Promised Land

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Oren Martin
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Just as the Old Testament book of Genesis begins with creation, where humans live in the presence of their Lord, so the New Testament book of Revelation ends with an even more glorious new creation where all of the redeemed dwell with the Lord andhis Christ.

    The historical development between the beginning and the end is crucial, for the journey from Eden to the new Jerusalem proceeds through ...

  • A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race, By Brenda Salter McNeil
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    A Credible Witness

    Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race

    by Brenda Salter McNeil
    Foreword by Tony Campolo

    Meet Jesus and Sam.Evangelist and teacher Brenda Salter McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims: Christ's death and resurrection reconcile us to God andto each other across gender, race and social lines.Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman, introduced here as Brenda's friend Sam, gives you the full ...