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BUILDING A CHURCH TO LAST tells the remarkable story of the
phenomenal growth and transformation that occurred at a 250 year
old mainline congregation located in Pawleys Island, South Carolina
after its senior pastor and his rag-tag army of believers
implemented a first century worship and leadership model. BUILDING
A CHURCH TO LAST describes a proven method for planting new
churches and for re-planting existing ones, especially those within
mainline denominations. BUILDING A CHURCH TO LAST is a God story-a
beautiful example of what can happen when the Lord grabs hold of a
small congregation and turns it on its head. Dr. Luis Palau, Luis
Palau Association, Portland, Oregon With sober precision, Ross
Lindsay unfolds the narrative, and all who long for God to show his
hand more widely in our midst today will find this book an
absorbing page-turner. Dr. J. I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver,
Canada My sincere belief is that the first century worship and
leadership model expounded upon in this book can enable any local
congregation to experience the many blessings that All Saints
Pawleys has. Canon Malcolm Widdecombe, Pip 'n' Jay, Bristol,
England ROSS M. "BUDDY" LINDSAY, III, M.A., J.D., L.L.M., Ph.D. is
a successful lawyer, CPA, and hotelier. After experiencing
first-hand the growth and transformation that occurred at All
Saints Church in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, he earned a Ph.D.
in Church Growth from Brunel University and an L.L. M. in Canon Law
from Cardiff University Law School. Today he serves as President of
Sonship Ministries, Inc. where he coaches church planters and
entrepreneurs who want to move from empire building to Kingdom
building.
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Finding Our Way
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Jeff Lockyer; Foreword by Alan Hirsch
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This is a call for a new understanding of apologetics, moving away
from appeals to tran-cultural rationality, arguing for a new form
of cross-cultural dialogue. Christian apologetics is in crisis. Old
concepts do no longer hold and post-modern development pose new
questions. Benno van den Toren argues for an apologetic witness
that is an exercise in cross-cultural dialogue aimed at persuading
our conversation partners of the relevance of a life centred on the
reality revealed in Jesus Christ. Some significant steps have been
made toward the development of such a new apologetic practice. The
aim of this book is to provide theological and philosophical basis
for a new paradigm for Christian apologetic dialogue with our
post-modern and multi-cultural world and to work out its practical
relevance.
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Connected Learning
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L Lynn Thigpen; Foreword by Tom Steffen
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Abide and Go
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Michael J. Gorman
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In this addition to the Union series, Daniel Hames and Michael
Reeves argue that an individual's relationship with God influences
their evangelism and missions more than anything else.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Tommie Scott Story is a true story-a true love
story-but not of the usual variety. This is a story of a
gangbanger, drug dealer, and "hit man" who worked his way through
the juvenile reform system and into a California state prison by
age twenty. It's the story of an angry young criminal with no
remorse and no hope. And it's here-in the depths of hopeless
darkness-that this story begins again. It begins again with a
humble, gray-haired man who was not ashamed to be a servant and to
share the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who
believes. It begins again with a new birth-a spiritual rebirth into
God's family through Jesus Christ. And it continues today with a
repentant and joyful servant-a dedicated soldier for Christ-whose
true story affirms God's Word that says, ..". neither death nor
life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else
in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38 NIV). "For we are
God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10 NIV). ****
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tommie Scott is former gang member and now
born-again believer in Jesus Christ. He is an author, advocate for
at-risk youth, a chaplain for the Las Vegas Community Gang Task
Force, and a dedicated witness and soldier for Christ. Tommie is a
native of Southern California. He grew up in poverty and was
introduced to drugs, alcohol, and gangs as a pre-teen. The juvenile
justice system, and later the California Department of Corrections,
became his home. By God's grace, Tommie was introduced to Jesus
Christ through a faithful Christian prison ministry. Just like
Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, God changed
Tommie's heart and life forever during a prison Bible study. Tommie
is now living and doing good works in Christ in Las Vegas, Nevada,
with his wife, Rache't, and their five children.
In her inspiring true story of her walk of faith, Eileen shares
a candid glimpse into a God guided journey as she and Alan, her
husband, transformed by a powerful conversion, left everything
behind and travelled to India with their young family as
missionaries. Here you enter the miraculous faith venture of two
passionate people, prepared to do whatever the Lord says. Led to
witness modern day miracles of healing, and incredible answers to
prayer, Eileen and Alan embarked upon an unforgettable path of
supernatural provision, as they only made their needs known to God.
This book teaches life-changing lessons that will make you useful
to God. The story is told with purpose; weaving together lessons of
faith learnt as they took small steps everyday to grow in faith and
in the joy of the Holy Spirit. You will be challenged to get up and
live your faith.
"Faith Works" offers the compelling testimony of a couples'
salvation and missionary years in India that seeks to challenge
others to learn what it takes to be useful to God.
Mechanistic dehumanization occurs when human beings are objectified
and exploited as a means to an end, comparable to expendable
components of a machine. This misconstruction of human value is a
source and sustainer of overproduction, an excess of consumption,
and the pursuit of unrestrained economic growth, damaging both
people and the planet.The notion of mission as accompaniment
promotes solidarity among church companions that embodies
interdependence and mutuality. Grounded in the New Testament
expression of koinonia, Mission as Accompaniment is affirmed in
this study as a suitable foundation to counteract mechanistic
dehumanization.Through this research with the University of
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) Theology and Development program,
Brian E. Konkol incorporates economics, ecology, anthropology, and
postcolonial missiology. He maintains that two particular
elements-the African concept of Ubuntu, and an Olive Agenda-when
integrated into mission as accompaniment, will equip the ELCA
Global Mission with an advocacy-driven trajectory in response to
mechanistic dehumanization.
This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly
annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of
cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled
"A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and
Linghun" ("Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien
Xin, Lim hoen"), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit
missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and
profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian
philosophy. The book restores the focus on Longobardo's own
intellectual concerns, while also reproducing and analyzing all the
Chinese-language annotations on the previously unpublished
Portuguese and Latin manuscripts. Moreover, it meticulously
modernizes all romanizations with standard Hanyu pinyin and
identifies, on the basis of archival research, most of Longobardo's
Chinese interlocutors, thus providing new insights into how the
Jesuits networked with Chinese scholars in the late Ming. In this
way, it opens up this seminal text to Sinologists and global
historians exploring Europe's first intellectual exchanges with
China. In addition, the book presents four introductory essays,
written by the editors and two prominent scholars on the Jesuit
China mission. These essays comprehensively reconstruct the
historical and intellectual context of Longobardo's report,
stressing that it cannot be viewed purely as a product of
Sino-European cultural exchange, but also as an outgrowth of both
exegetic debates within Europe and of European experiences across
Asia, especially in Japan. Hence this critical edition will greatly
contribute to a more globalized view of the Jesuit China mission.
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