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Christianity Today 2014 Book Award Winner Named one of Ten
Outstanding Books of 2013 for Mission Studies, International
Bulletin of Mission Research This comprehensive introduction helps
students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary
Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically.
Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world
Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church
for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church
throughout history in order to address the global church and offers
a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today.
Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission
involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation.
He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes
its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily
theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that
the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission.
Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our
participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the
redemption of the nations.
2015 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of
Missiology Named an Outstanding Mission Book of 2015, International
Bulletin of Mission Research In 1900 many assumed the twentieth
century would be a Christian century because Western "Christian
empires" ruled most of the world. What happened instead is that
Christianity in the West declined dramatically, the empires
collapsed, and Christianity's center moved to Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and the Pacific. How did this happen so quickly? Respected
scholar and teacher Scott Sunquist surveys the most recent century
of Christian history, highlighting epochal changes in global
Christianity. He also suggests lessons we can learn from this
remarkable global Christian reversal. Ideal for an introduction to
Christianity or a church history course, this book includes a
foreword by Mark Noll.
Christianity Today Book Award What does it take to be a church
planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Most leaders start out with
passion, a sense of calling, and a focus on building ministry
skills. Such things might get some results, but they are not enough
to sustain a healthy ministry-or a healthy life. Beyond the
vocational capacities every church planter needs, there's a range
of capabilities more difficult to measure but even more essential:
what veteran church planter Tim Morey calls spiritual competencies.
Morey provides here a practical guide to spiritual formation geared
to the unique needs of church planters. He helps readers answer the
questions, What are the spiritual capabilities that I as a church
planter need to develop? How might I lean into the work Jesus is
doing in these vital areas? Spiritual competencies have to do not
just with behaviors but also with the motivations, agendas, and
scripts that drive behaviors. Morey explores how church planters
can become people who invest in their own physical, emotional,
relational, and spiritual health accept limits and share
responsibilities can be trusted with power are able to stay
resilient and grow through difficulties can minister without being
noticed find a sustainable pace that helps them avoid burnout The
health of a church or any ministry organization is directly linked
to the health of its leaders. Church planters may be used to
improvising, but when it comes to their spiritual lives, they can't
afford to just wing it. Featuring real-life stories from leaders,
suggested practices, and discussion questions in each chapter, this
book will equip individuals and teams (and those who coach them) to
commit to an intentional plan for spiritual formation-for the good
of their churches, their relationships, and their own lives as
disciples of Jesus.
Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Theology Toward the
end of the twentieth century, Lesslie Newbigin offered a
penetrating analysis of the challenges of pluralism that confronted
a Western culture and society reeling from the dissolution of
Christendom. His enormous influence has been felt ever since.
Newbigin (1909-1998) was a longtime Church of Scotland missionary
to India and later General Secretary of the International
Missionary Council and Associate General Secretary of the World
Council of Churches. The first installment in the Missiological
Engagements series, the essays in this volume explore three aspects
of Newbigin?s legacy. First, they assess the impact of his 1989
book, Gospel in a Pluralist Society, on Christian mission and
evangelism in the West. Second, they critically analyze the nature
of Western pluralism in its many dimensions to discern how
Christianity can proclaim good news for today. Finally, the
contributors discuss the influence of Newbigin's work on the field
of missiology. By looking backward, this volume recommends and
advances a vision for Christian witness in the pluralistic world of
the twenty-first century. Contributions from leading missiologists
and theologians, including: William Burrows John Flett Veli-Matti
Karkkainen Esther Meek Wilbert Shenk Missiological Engagements
charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the
history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
History of the World Christian Movement shows that from the
beginning Christianity has been a world religion, informed and
shaped through the interplay of gospel and culture church and
world.
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 Jesus in the world, and many
individual churches in the West are dying. When it's so easy to be
confused, frustrated, or simply apathetic about the church, how
should we understand its purpose today? In this appealing
introduction to the nature of the local church, set in the context
of Christian history and global diversity, historian and missionary
Scott Sunquist shows us the church in motion. Why Church? clarifies
the two primary purposes of the church-worship and witness-and
unpacks what the church is (and ought to be) using five movements
of worship: come together stand to praise God kneel to confess sit
to listen to the Word of God go out into the world Packed with
stories and insights from experiences in churches around the world,
this book explores cultural contextualization, the meaning of
conversion, worship in both personal and communal aspects, and how
mission combines telling the good news with being good news as a
community. From Fuller Theological Seminary's renowned
church-planting program, this primer is well suited to leaders and
their core teams to read together and share with new attenders as
they catch the spirit of the dynamic gathering that is the local
church.
Beginning with the missionary expansion of the 15th century, this
story goes on to trace the fracturing of the Christian movement
among Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant versions; the impact of
modern colonialism and the emergence of a new global reality; the
wars of religion, the impact of the Enlightenment, the rise of
Christianity in North America, and the modern missionary movement.
This comprehensive volume features a collection of interpretive
essays on the work of missions in the Presbyterian Church for over
sixty years. It discusses events and challenges to the churchs
mission activities and to its missionaries and examines the ways in
which changes in denominational structures impacted mission work.
Reflections from Presbyterian mission leaders, firsthand accounts
from missionaries, and an overview of the work in specific mission
areas from Latin America to East Asia make this an ideal resource
for those involved in Presbyterian missions, scholars, and all
those who seek to understand the breadth and depth of Presbyterian
missions during this period. Contributors include William B.
Anderson, Frank Arnold, Caroline Becker, T. Donald Black, G.
Thompson Brown, David Dawson, Sherron George, Theodore A. Gill Jr.,
Duncan Hanson, Patricia Lloyd-Sidle, Stanley Skreslet, Scott W.
Sunquist, John C. B. Webster, and Robert J. Weingartner.
While understanding history has always been an essential task for
God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of
Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods
for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians-and
especially historians and missiologists-make sense of global
Christianity as an unfolding historical movement? Scott Sunquist
invites readers to join him for a capstone course in historical
thinking from a master teacher. Highlighting both the continuity
and the diversity within the Christian movement over the centuries,
he identifies three key concepts for framing church history: time,
cross, and glory. These themes shed light to help us discern how
the Jesus movement developed from the first century to the present,
through an explosion of contextual expressions. Tracing these
concepts through the centuries, we learn from the stories of
Christians reflecting the glories of God's kingdom-and from their
failures. Filled with historical case studies and stories from
Sunquist's teaching around the world, The Shape of Christian
History offers a framework for how to read and write church
history. Even more, it demonstrates how the study of history
illuminates God's mission in the world and sharpens our
understanding of how to participate in that mission faithfully.
Asia is the birthplace of Christianity. If Christianity is not
usually seen as an Asian religion, that is because the history of
Christianity in Asia has long been a difficult one. Whereas
Christianity in the West received royal support, Asian Christianity
has led a more nomadic and exilic existence. Today it is the least
Christianized region of the world. Scott W. Sunquist is a
recognized expert on the history of the Christian faith in Asia.
Over the years he has published and spoken frequently on this
theme. Explorations in Asian Christianity gathers his key writings
on the topic and organizes them into four main categories: surveys
that look at Asian Christianity in broad perspective, historical
investigations that look at how Christianity shapes our
understanding of history and historiography, missiological studies
that look closely at issues of place, and finally essays on
theological education. Topics explored in this volume include
Ecumenism in Asia The cruciform nature of Christianity A missiology
of place The Christian view of time Global migration Explorations
in Asian Christianity sheds light on one of the most important but
least well-known areas in Christian history. Missiological
Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in
the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
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