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Leadership, especially Christian leadership, is a subject that needs clear, biblical, theological, and contextual thinking. There is no "one size fits all" model of leadership that will work in every context. Senior's effort in working out the apostle Paul's leadership principles in Malaysia, with its multicultural, multiethnic, and multi-religious contexts, is commendable. This book will surely serve as a catalyst toward additional research and critical...
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Mission cannot ignore its engagement with power. Christian mission is unavoidably located within matrices of power structures: religion, culture, colonial power, economics, and gender. It is not only in the missionary movement largely emanating from the West that Christian mission is linked to structure and power. The Christian communities of today also present significant images, practices, expressions, and sometimes exploitations of power. This...
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This groundbreaking volume of contributions from sixteen leading child theologians, mission theologians, and practitioners examines the constructive interaction of "theology, mission, and child" in fresh and intriguing ways. It is moving, profound, and practical, proposing not just ways theology can better inform mission praxis, particularly with children, but also ways "child" can inform our understanding of God, God's mission, and ours.
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Cross-cultural mission has always been a primary learning experience for the church. It pulls us out of a mono-cultural understanding and helps us discover a legitimate theological pluralism that opens us for new perspectives in the gospel. Translating the gospel into new languages and cultures is a human and divine means of making us learn new "incarnations" of the good news.
This book is composed of contributions from young missiologists from different...
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Children are hungry and homeless. Christians around the world care and send finances to organizations that provide care for such children. The local churches do their part. This is what we believe; this is what we expect. But, do the organizations and churches always succeed in their efforts? Are Christian organizations more effective than other organizations in helping children? What if local churches do not help ,as much as, they could because they...
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Women's voices are often unheard and unreported; and their place can be controversial. This book brings together the voices of Christian women scholars and practitioners at the nexus of Christianity, mission and Islam. It comes out of the colloquium of the same name, held in Melbourne, Australia in 2015, when twenty-eight women from different nations and nationalities, different ages and theological perspectives, and different religious backgrounds...
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Gender perspectives play a core role when it comes to both the theory and practice of diakonia. This is the second book on diakonia published by Regnum Books. It follows up Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction (2014). Many of the authors belong to VID Specialized University in Norway (Campuses in Oslo, Stavanger and Bergen). They are concerned about the role gender plays within the theory and practice of diakonia. Most of them have...
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Christian mission takes place in a world with increasing interreligious tensions, including violence and persecution. Politics, economics, religion, ethnicity and other factors play a role in these tensions. Christians too are involved in such conflicts, sometimes as those who are persecuted and sometimes as those participating in violence. 'Freedom of religion and belief' is a core value in the UN Human Rights Declaration. At the same time it is...
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The Missionary Vision of the Bible examines the foundational plot of the Bible: the story of God's love for the world and the mission of God's people to live out and proclaim this love. The emphasis is on the coherence of the biblical message from the beginning to the end.
The author sheds light on the challenges of the church's mission. He reflects on the plot of God's narratives in search of God's people and on God's desire, that the church will...
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In May 2009, thirty-five theologians from Asia, Africa, and Europe met in Wuppertal, Germany, for a consultation on mission theology organized by the United Evangelical Mission: Communion of 35 Churches in Three Continents. The aim was to participate in the one-hundredth anniversary of the Edinburgh conference through a study process and to reflect on the challenges for mission in the twenty-first century. The papers in this book are drawn from those...
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This book explores the identity, context, and features of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, India, as well as the internal and external issues facing Pentecostals. It argues for an indigenous origin of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, as it is a product of local Spirit revivals in the existing churches and of the missionary activities of Indian Pentecostals. The book aims to suggest "a contextual missiology of the Spirit" as a new model of contextual missiology...
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It is here, under these trees on my desert island that this volume takes on meaning because its authors honestly struggle with and debate how we should relate to postmodernities. Should our response be accommodation, relativizing or counter-culture? How do we strike a balance between listening and understanding, and at the same time exploring how postmodernities influence the interpretation and application of the Bible as the normative story of God's...
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This book explores and analyses funerary rite struggles in a nation where Christianity is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and many families have Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Traditionalist (kiranti) members, who go through traumatic experiences at the death of their family members. The context of mixed affiliation raises questions of social, psychological and religious identity for Christian converts, which are particularly acute after a death...
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The New Testament church is universal and local at the same time. The one, holy, universal, and apostolic church appears in local manifestations. Missiologically speaking, the church can take courage as it faces the increasing impact of globalization on local communities today. Being both universal and concrete, the church is geared for the simultaneous challenges of the global and local-the "glocal."
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THE CONVERSATION THAT MATTERS MOST
You have conversations with your friends all the time, right? You talk or text about the latest and greatest movie or the song you just downloaded. But as a Christian, you may not quite know how to bring up Jesus. Or you may wonder what you should say when your friends have questions.
Yet sharing Jesus' message of hope with your friends is the most important conversation you will ever, ever have!
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This is the book for you if you are serious about communicating the truth of the Gospel to Muslims.It is thorough.It is authoritative.It is written by a third-world Christian whose father was a convert from Islam.It is the contention of the author that an effective evangelistic approach to the adherents of Islam must be based upon a study of Christ as He is found in both Scripture and the Koran. Christ, then, becomes the bridge between the two faiths....
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A practical how-to guide for Christians who want to share their faith in more effective and natural ways.
How are we to talk about Jesus to someone who does not believe the way we do? Very few of us feel comfortable articulating the truthfulness of Christ's death and resurrection to a peer outside of the church. Sometimes Christians feel intimidated by the objections of unbelievers who may say, "That's right for you, but not for me" or...
How are we to talk about Jesus to someone who does not believe the way we do? Very few of us feel comfortable articulating the truthfulness of Christ's death and resurrection to a peer outside of the church. Sometimes Christians feel intimidated by the objections of unbelievers who may say, "That's right for you, but not for me" or...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon is one of the world's most famous preachers. Born in Essex, England in 1834, he converted from the Anglican Church to the Baptist faith at the age of 15 and began teaching Sunday school the following year. While he never attended theology school, by the age of 22 he was most the famous preacher in all of London and went on to preach at the New Park Street Chapel, later the Metropolitan Tabernacle, for 38 years. Spurgeon was...
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I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with God turned her world upside down-and put her life in danger. Originally published in 1978, the book has sold 300,000 copies and is a classic in Muslim evangelism. The 25th anniversary edition includes an afterword by a missionary friend of Bilquis who plays a prominent role in the story and an appendix...
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