Best-selling authors Marva Dawn and Eugene Peterson offer encouragement to pastors.
THE SMALL CHURCH SMALL GROUP GUIDE – DAVID STARK, PATRICK KEIFERT AND JUDY STACK-NELSON
A principle-based approach to introducing and sustaining small group
ministry in small congregations. Part of the People Together: The Next
Generation of Small Group Ministries, this book can be used by one
person starting a small group ministry or a leader who is overseeing
several small groups.
THE SKY IS FALLING – ALAN J. ROXBURGH
Endorsements
This is more than a book, it is a manifesto, a proposal for a
new way of imagining a common life together as the pilgrim people of
God seeking to fulfill God’s purposes for the world in our time. If we
need new kinds of churches, we cannot develop them with old kinds of
leaders. We ourselves need to become those new kinds of leaders, even
as we all look to the next generations to help them be formed in new
apprenticeships in the kinds of skills this book describes.
THE ORIGINAL JESUS – N. T. WRIGHT
160 pages; 51 color illustrations; 1997
Jesus is in the news as much now as ever before. Whenever there is
new evidence or a new analysis about Jesus, the newspapers get
interested. Many continued to be fascinated by the person of Jesus and
by whether or not he actually did and said what the New Testament
Gospels say he did.
THE LORD AND HIS PRAYER – N. T. WRIGHT
95 pages; 1997
By reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer in its original setting, N.T.
Wright offers a fresh understanding of Christian spirituality and the
life of prayer.
THE CONTINUING CONVERSION OF THE CHURCH – DARRELL L. GUDER
Series: The Gospel and Our Culture Series
Darrell L. Guder
238 pages; 2000
Western society is now a very different, very difficult mission
field. In such a situation, the mission of evangelism cannot succeed
with an attitude of ‘business as usual.’ This volume builds a theology
of evangelism that has its focus on the church itself. Darrell Guder
shows that the church’s missionary calling requires that the theology
and practice of evangelism be fundamentally rethought and redirected,
focused on the continuing evangelization of the church so that it can
carry out its witness faithfully in today’s world.
STORMFRONT – JAMES V. BROWNSON, INAGRACE T. DIETTERICH, BARRY A. HARVEY, CHARLES C. WEST
Series: The Gospel and Our Culture Series
James V. Brownson, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Barry A. Harvey, Charles C. West
141 pages; dimensions (in inches): 6 x 9; 2003
Foreword by George R. Hunsberger
How does one authentically hear and live out the gospel in North
America? This new book attempts to answer this question in a way that
reveals much about the nature of Christian faith today and its relation
to contemporary culture.
RURAL EVANGELISM – KEVIN E. RUFFCORN
Responding to the need for a new vision of evangelism for small towns
and rural areas, Kevin Ruffcorn presents lively suggestions and new
understandings gleaned from his workshops on rural evangelism and his
own experience. He emphasizes that the vision of evangelism held by
those in suburbia and other well-populated neighborhoods usually does
not fit rural settings. The author looks at the possibilities and the
problems typical of less densely populated areas, reviewing some
concerns many of them experience: Small memberships, frequent turnover
of pastors, decreasing population of surrounding communities and the
challenge of facilitating needed changes.
ROBUST CHURCH DEVELOPMENT – MIKE REGELE
This book sets forth the vision, the principles and the practices that, if embraced, will see your regional body on its way to a robust church development effort - one that is effective today and will withstand continuous shifts in the mission environment over time....
REVOLUTION – GEORGE BARNA
World renowned pollster George Barna has the numbers, and they indicate a revolution is already taking place within the Churchone that will impact every believer in America. Committed, bornagain Christians are exiting the established church in massive numbers. Why are...