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In 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 practices to
specific contexts. J. D. speaks from personal experience, research
and training and focuses on crucial issues every planter should
consider. His well researched and easy to understand concepts are
crucial for anyone who takes seriously the call of Scripture to
Declare His glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds to all
peoples.
Drawing from Scripture, social sciences, and history, David J.
Hesselgrave tackles the most pressing issues facing missionaries
today. The author and contributors show how theological issues have
real impact on missions, and they present arguments on both sides
of the fifteen subjects of debate while also offering their own
biblically informed perspectives on the subjects. Despite rapid
global changes, Hesselgrave determines that much of traditional
theory, practice, and theology is still valid, if not essential,
for the future of Christian missions. Current and prospective
missionaries, pastors, seminary students, missions committee
members, and laypeople interested in world Christianity will all
benefit from the discussions covered in this book: * Sovereignty
and free will: An impossible mix or a perfect match? * Common
ground and enemy territory: How should we approach adherents of
other faiths? * Business as mission: When is it mission and when is
it not? * Harvest missions and pioneer missions: Discipling the
masses or reaching to the margins? This updated and expanded
edition includes five more questions along with new applications
and reflections on the original ten questions.
We often think stories are for children. But using the Bible as
evidence, we see that God communicated His truth to men and women
of all cultures, time, and places by way of many small stories
forming one large story. While possessing a rich heritage of
storytelling, too many evangelicals have forfeited this vital
skill. Tom Steffen's aim is to help readers recapture the most
natural, universal, and effective means of evangelism-discipleship
that exists--storytelling. This book is not just theory--it
provides practical help by identifying the roles and tasks that are
necessary to become an effective storyteller in another culture.
Steffen offers creative tools and introduces practical ways to
increase many of the storytelling skills for
evangelism-discipleship. He moves us beyond linear gospel outlines,
Western logic and organization, and individual responses to
traditional evangelism rituals, to a mode of communication that
respects the audience, making it easy for them to grasp what they
have heard and to pass it on to others with minimal loss of
content. By reconnecting storytelling to ministry, readers will be
more comfortable in sharing the gospel, both at home and abroad.
This revised edition of Dr. David Hesselgrave's great work
Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally updates the original edition
and interacts with the most recent literature on this increasingly
important topic. The original edition went through fifteen
printings and, very deservedly, has come to be one of the most
widely used textbooks on Christian cross-cultural communications.
The revisions in this new edition are extensive and carry on the
high level of discussion maintained throughout the original
edition, taking into account, for example, the current discussion
on the relationship between form and function and the enormous body
of literature that has sprung up recently on contextualization. To
enhance the volume's usefulness for students, Dr. Hesselgrave has
added an extensive bibliography of twenty-five pages on various
aspects of cross-cultural communications. This revision of
Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally is superb. It raises a great
book into a unique category, undoubtedly the finest book on this
topic available today.
Offers a biblical and practical approach to church planting using
cultural and experiential data to facilitate the founding of new
churches in unreached areas of the world.
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