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Inside Alpha
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James Heard; Foreword by Andrew Walker
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Consuming Mission
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Robert Ellis Haynes; Foreword by Laceye C. Warner
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Through a series of case studies of major fundamentalist missionary
institutions and campaigns in China from 1930 to 1937, this work
traces and clarifies the historical process of the movement and its
controversy with modernism, the nature of character of the
movement, its theological cores, its impact upon missionary
thinking and strategies, and its influences on emerging
evangelicals within Chinese churches.
For over five hundred years, since the great age of exploration,
Western Christians have visited, traded with, conquered and
colonized large parts of the non-Western world. In virtually every
case this contact has been accompanied by an attempt to spread
Christianity.
This volume explores the manner in which Western missionary
Christianity has been shaped and transformed through contact with
the peoples of Peru, Mexico, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
China, and Japan. Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity
demonstrates how local populations, who initially encountered
Christianity as a mixture of religion, culture, politics, ethics
and technology, selected those elements they felt suited their
needs. The conversion of the local population, the volume shows,
was usually accompanied by a significant indigenization of
Christianity. Through the detailed examination and comparison of
events in a range of countries and cultures, this book points
provides a deeper understanding of mission history and the dynamics
of Christianity's expansion. The encounter with Western
Christianity is vital to the history of contact between Western and
non-Western civilizations. Western Christians have visited, traded
with, conquered and colonized large parts of the non-Western world
for over five hundred years, and their migration has almost always
been accompanied by an attempt to create new Christians in new
lands. Just as indigenous people have been converted however, so
too has Christianity become variously indigenized. Local
populations initially encounter a Christian package of religion,
culture, politics, ethics and technology. This volume illustrates
the ways in which peoples have selected elements of this package to
suit their specific needs, and so explores the myriad
transformations missionary Christianity has undergone through
contact with the peoples of Peru, Mexico, Africa, India, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, China and Japan. Contributing are Erik Cohen (University
of Jerusalem), Yochanan Bar Yafe Szeminski ?, John F. Howes ?, D.
Dennis Hudson ?, Daniel H. Bays (University of Kansas), and Eric
Van Young (University of California, San Diego). The chapters are
linked by their attempt to overcome conventional regional and
disciplinary barriers in order to achieve a deeper understanding of
mission history and the dynamics of the expansion of Christianity.
A remarkable work, this volume will pave the way for entirely new
approaches to a particularly complex and demanding subject.
The Alpha Team Guide is recommended for Alpha small group hosts and
helpers. It includes notes for the two required team training
sessions on how to lead an Alpha small group, and how to lead
prayer ministry, that can be found online or on either the Alpha
Film Series DVD or Alpha with Nicky Gumbel DVD. It also provides
weekly key concept summary and suggested questions to help guide
the discussion time for each session of Alpha. Alpha creates an
environment of hospitality where people can bring their friends,
family and work colleagues to explore the Christian faith, ask
questions, and share their point of view. Alpha makes it easy to
invite friends to have spiritual conversations which explore life's
biggest questions in a safe and respectful way. Alpha's approach to
hospitality, faith, and discussion is designed to welcome everyone,
especially those who might not describe themselves as Christians or
church-goers. Each session includes time for a large group meal,
short teaching, and small group discussion.
There is a new trend afoot, one that goes against the prevailing
Western model, influenced by the values and principles of
international commerce. Presented here are five "signs of life,"
showcased by this network of movements best referred to as "new
friars." God's kingdom in the hands of the people of God, the
contributors to this book show us, is first and foremost
incarnational, which leads necessarily to gospel witness that is
devotional, communal, missional and marginal. With a survey of the
history of new friar movements and commentary by forerunner, this
seminal book, edited by Scott A. Bessenecker, paints a picture of
mission that is new only because it has been neglected for so long,
a mission that is truly good news to the people in its path. With
contributions from Viv Grigg, Craig and Nayhouy Greenfield, Derek
Engdahl, Jean-Luc Krieg, Chris Heuertz, Darren Prince, Jose Penate
Aceves, John Hayes and Ash Barker, this book brings together a
chorus of voices at the front lines of what God is doing through
the new friar community.
Christian dialogic writings flourished in the Catholic missions in
late Ming China. This study focuses on the mission work of the
Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (Ai Rulue , 1582-1649) in Fujian and
the unique text Kouduo richao (Diary of Oral Admonitions,
1630-1640) that records the religious and intellectual
conversations among the Jesuits and local converts. By examining
the mechanisms of dialogue in Kouduo richao and other Christian
works distinguished by a certain dialogue form, the author of the
present work aims to reveal the formation of a hybrid
Christian-Confucian identity in late Ming Chinese religious
experience. By offering the new approach of dialogic hybridization,
the book not only treats dialogue as an important yet
underestimated genre in late Ming Christian literature, but it also
uncovers a self-other identity complex in the dialogic exchanges of
the Jesuits and Chinese scholars. Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and
Christian-Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian is a
multi-faceted investigation of the religious, philosophical,
ethical, scientific, and artistic topics discussed among the
Jesuits and late Ming scholars. This comprehensive research echoes
what the distinguished Sinologist Erik Zurcher (1928-2008) said
about the richness and diversity of Chinese Christian texts
produced in the 17th and 18th centuries. Following Zurcher's
careful study and annotated full translation of Kouduo richao
(Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, LVI/1-2), the present work
features a set of new findings beyond the endeavours of Zurcher and
other scholars. With the key concept of Christian-Confucian
dialogism, it tells the intriguing story of Aleni's mission work
and the thriving Christian communities in late Ming Fujian.
Christianity is the world's most global faith. Evangelical
Christianity, meanwhile, is the world's fastest growing major
religion in terms of conversion growth. And yet, at the dawn of the
third millennium, the church's primary task ("go and make disciples
of all nations") remains undone. Missions in the Third Millennium
charts 21 trends both positive and negative with continuing
significance for the Great Commission community in the 21st
century. Revised and updated with two new chapters on urban
missions and evangelizing Muslims, this up-to-date volume offers
insights to help students, churches, missionaries, agencies, and
Christians from outside the West grasp the big picture and take
practical steps for more effective involvement. This edition
contains extensive notes, expanded suggestions for further reading,
and discussion questions.
Outreach 2019 Resource of the Year (Cross-Cultural/Missional) The
ministry of reconciliation is the new whole in holistic ministry.
It must be if the Christian mission is to remain relevant in our
increasingly fractured world. This book offers a fresh treatment of
holistic ministry that takes the role of reconciliation seriously,
rethinking the meaning of the gospel, the nature of the church, and
the practice of mission in light of globalization,
post-Christendom, and postcolonialism. It also includes theological
and practical resources for effectively engaging in evangelism,
compassion and justice, and reconciliation ministries. Includes a
foreword by Ruth Padilla DeBorst and an afterword by Ronald J.
Sider.
In 1993, Andrew Brunson was asked to travel to Turkey, the largest
unevangelized country in the world, to serve as a missionary.
Though hesitant because of the daunting and dangerous task that lay
ahead, Andrew and his wife, Norine, believed this was God's plan
for them. What followed was a string of threats and attacks, but
also successes in starting new churches in a place where many
people had never met a Christian. As their work with refugees from
Syria, including Kurds, gained attention and suspicion, Andrew and
Norine acknowledged the threat but accepted the risk, determining
to stay unless God told them to leave. In 2016, they were arrested.
Though the State eventually released Norine, who remained in
Turkey, Andrew was imprisoned. Accused of being a spy and being
among the plotters of the attempted coup, he became a political
pawn whose story soon became known around the world. God's Hostage
is the incredible true story of his imprisonment, his brokenness,
and his eventual freedom. Anyone with a heart for missions,
especially to the Muslim world, will love this tension-laden and
faith-laced book.
What does it mean to evangelize ethically in a multicultural
climate? Following his successful Evangelism after Christendom,
Bryan Stone addresses reasons evangelism often fails and explains
how it can become distorted as a Christian practice. Stone urges us
to consider a new approach, arguing for evangelism as a work of
imagination and a witness to beauty rather than a crass effort to
compete for converts in pluralistic contexts. He shows that the way
we lead our lives as Christians is the most meaningful tool of
evangelism in today's rapidly changing world.
Effectively communicate Christ across Cultures The gospel message
transcends cultures, but human communication does not. In
Transforming Communication missionary and professor Vee J.
D-Davidson provides principles for the intercultural communication
of Christ. Using her twenty-five-plus years of experience teaching
as a Westerner in Asia as a starting point, Davidson provides
transferable principles that encourage awareness of
context-specific issues and that see opportunities for
intercultural communication as wholly unique opportunities,
regardless of any perceived communication barriers. Readers from
multiple different cultures will be able to apply the principles
presented by use of relevant examples, illustrations, and
enlightening insights provided from a wide range of Global South
and Global North multicultural and intercultural perspectives.
Transforming Communication offers practical principles to encourage
and challenge Christian readers to build relationships that might
well require engaging with issues that bring them out of their
comfort zone but, the book also offers insights and encouraging
devotional nuggets that feed into a triad of knowledge-impartation,
self-examination and challenge, along with spiritual enrichment for
the task.
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