Craig VanGelder

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  Participating In Gods Mission

  $40.99

  Explores how the church has engaged-and should engage-the American context

  What might faithful and meaningful Christian witness look like within our changing contemporary American context?

  After analyzing contemporary challenges and developing a missiological approach for the US church, Craig Van Gelder and Dwight Zscheile reflect on the long, complex, and contested history of Christian mission in America. Five distinct historical periods from the beginning of the colonial era to the dawn of the third millennium are reviewed and critiqued.

  They then bring the story forward to the present day, discussing current realities confronting the church, discerning possibilities of where and how the Spirit of God might be at work today, and imagining what participating in the triune God’s mission may look like in an uncertain tomorrow.

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  Missional Church In Perspective (Reprinted)

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  In this book, two leading ministry experts place the missional church conversation in historical perspective and offer fresh insights for its further development. They begin by providing a helpful review of the genesis of the missional church and offering an insightful critique of the Gospel and Our Culture Network’s seminal book Missional Church, which set the conversation in motion. They map the diverse paths this discussion has taken over the past decade, identifying four primary branches and ten sub-branches of the conversation and placing over one hundred published titles and websites into this framework. The authors then utilize recent developments in biblical and theological perspectives to strengthen and extend the conversation about missional theology, the church’s interaction with culture and cultures, and church organization and leadership in relation to the formation of believers as disciples. Professors, students, and church leaders will value this comprehensive overview of the missional movement. It includes a foreword by Alan J. Roxburgh.

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  Evangelizing Church : A Lutheran Contribution

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  Foreword, Mark S. Hanson
  Preface, David L. Tiede
  Project Team Members

  1.A Lutheran Confession
  2.The Gift Is A Call
  3.Addressing Captives In Babylon
  4.For The Sake Of The World
  5.Called Out Of Our Comfort Zone
  6.Navigating Difficult Questions
  7.After The Death Of Evangelism – The Resurrection Of An Evangelizing Church

  Epilogue: A Lutheran Contribution To An Evangelizing Church

  Study Guide
  Annotated Bibliography
  Notes
  Index Of Topics
  Index Of Names

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  In a series of engaging essays and responses, the book explores how evangelism has functioned within Lutheranism historically and articulates a Lutheran theological perspective on evangelism within the broader developments in mission theology over the past several decades. It further helps to show how evangelism from a Lutheran perspective may be differentiated from other theologies of evangelism that are part of the Christian movement in our day.

  The book moves from theory to practice as it relates this theology of evangelism to the life of congregations that are seeking to proclaim the gospel in the emerging postmodern context, provides congregations with perspectives on how to utilize this theology in shaping the practice of evangelism within their church life. A study guide to encourage group discussion and reflection is included.

  Other contributors:
  *Wyvetta Bullock
  *Kelly Fryer
  *Craig Nessan
  *J. Paul Rajashekar

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  Confident Witness Changing World A Print On Demand Title

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  How 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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  Church Between Gospel And Culture A Print On Demand Title

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  This 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.

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