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Author: Flora Claybrook Th.D. Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098020308 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 119
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The twenty-first century consists of an ever-evolving diverse population (multiculturally, internationally, racially, and sexually) whose ideas and beliefs are as diverse as the population itself. This has caused the church to face challenges she has never faced before. There was a time when Christians were a majority in this country and were free to speak about Jesus, prayer, or sin without fearing repercussions. However, the twenty-first century has ushered in a paradigm shift toward something called "un-Christian" and "tolerance" culture. This new "pluralistic" culture is one where everything is tolerated/accepted, with one exception: Christianity. Church attendance is declining, and fewer people understand scripture or know anything about Jesus. Therefore, their belief systems do not align with scripture. Church leaders must step out of the "church bubble," face today's world, and plan how they will meet these challenges. In this book, the author discusses the following twelve major challenges confronting twenty-first-century church leaders as well as some strategies for meeting these challenges and reversing negativity: un-Christian phenomenon, blending the generational groups, religious pluralism vs. exclusivism, open theism vs. classical theism, gender-neutral Bible controversy, egalitarianism vs. complementarianism, LGBTQ conversation, postmodernism and religion, futurism vs. preterism, biblical illiteracy in the church, the need for racial reconciliation, and continual disintegration of American families.
Author: Flora Claybrook Th.D. Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098020308 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
The twenty-first century consists of an ever-evolving diverse population (multiculturally, internationally, racially, and sexually) whose ideas and beliefs are as diverse as the population itself. This has caused the church to face challenges she has never faced before. There was a time when Christians were a majority in this country and were free to speak about Jesus, prayer, or sin without fearing repercussions. However, the twenty-first century has ushered in a paradigm shift toward something called "un-Christian" and "tolerance" culture. This new "pluralistic" culture is one where everything is tolerated/accepted, with one exception: Christianity. Church attendance is declining, and fewer people understand scripture or know anything about Jesus. Therefore, their belief systems do not align with scripture. Church leaders must step out of the "church bubble," face today's world, and plan how they will meet these challenges. In this book, the author discusses the following twelve major challenges confronting twenty-first-century church leaders as well as some strategies for meeting these challenges and reversing negativity: un-Christian phenomenon, blending the generational groups, religious pluralism vs. exclusivism, open theism vs. classical theism, gender-neutral Bible controversy, egalitarianism vs. complementarianism, LGBTQ conversation, postmodernism and religion, futurism vs. preterism, biblical illiteracy in the church, the need for racial reconciliation, and continual disintegration of American families.
Author: Musa Ndlovu Larry Musa Ndlovu Publisher: ISBN: 9781425190255 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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The global Church in the 21st Century is confronted by a challenge as it enters the new critical hour in the spirit. Quality and sustainable leadership that reveres and honor godly values is slowly diminishing in the Church. This is due to falsity, compromise, greed and corruption that had subtly crept into the hearts of some of the Leaders or Shepherds. Subsequently God's people become susceptible to the enemy's attacks and plunder, thus never attaining to their full growth and potential in Jesus Christ. This is that season where the leaders need to undergo a new leadership and structural adjustments, so as to position the Church to perform her end-time great exploits for the season. God is therefore placing a heavenly demand upon the quality of Church leadership and the definition of the Church globally. God also wants to see a new quality breed of Christians that will emerge in this last day. Christians, that will cause an irrevocable impact to the kingdom of darkness. Its not quantity but quality that God seeks. Through this book the Father is exposing, redressing and blessing the Church with strategies for breakthrough.
Author: Dennis Rainey Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc ISBN: 1418562076 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
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There is nothing traditional about the typical family of the twenty-first century, and so it follows that ministering to today's families presents an assortment of new challenges. Rainey believes that the resources needed by the church to confront and combat family problems do exist, and Ministering to Twenty-First Century Families is a user-friendly guide to combating the destruction of the family unit. Offering practical solutions and encouraging action, Rainey calls for a "roll-up-your-sleeves" approach to healing weary families.
Author: Creigs C. Beverly, Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1638448124 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 153
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This book represents not only the storms of life which the authors have experienced but also their unquenchable hope for a better tomorrow. For each, the Black church has been not only a source of personal valuation; but it has also been the foundation upon which each has been sustained, renewed, and revived. The authors hope that the reader of this book will also find something of personal, communal, and spiritual value which will assist them in maintaining hope in a world gone mad. Readers will find the various roles the Black church has provided over the years, along with some examples which can be replicated in twenty-first-century America. The authors believe in the immortal words of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, former president of Morehouse College who said, "It must be borne in the mind that the tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin." God bless. Creigs C. Beverly, PhD Olivia D. Beverly, PhD
Author: Phyllis Thompson Publisher: SPCK ISBN: 0281070296 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 166
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A collection of five pictures which address issues and challenges pertinent (but not exclusively so) to the Black Majority Church in the UK. They sharpen understanding of the way the BM have come to do church, and also challenge whether the vision is to maintain the status quo or be a prophetic church.
Author: Manuel Howard Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1645695700 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 88
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The Transforming Male Leaders in the Twenty-First Century is a blueprint for all male leaders, especially those who are looking to be transformed into game-changing transformational leaders in their homes, churches, and/or the community. Males, especially African American males in leadership, have been on a decline in churches, homes, and the community in recent decades. This book will train all men in transformative learning and transformational leadership which will spark a transformational revival in our male leaders. This book is a recipe for transformation. It uses a qualitative method of inquiry which lays out a treatment plan including a three-week training module utilized to investigate the focus on the lack of black male leadership in the church, home, and the community. This book presents the state-of-the-art research in black male leadership. This book provides information drawn from literature review relative to the absence of black male leadership in the church. This book shares significant concepts and pertinent works by leading authors and theorists in black male leadership. This book also provides an in-depth explication of transformational leadership and transformative learning theories as they correlate to current literature on the lack of male leaders in the black church. Transforming Male Leaders in the Twenty-First Century" establishes a theoretical foundation using a theological, biblical, and historical perspective to undergird the subject matter of transforming black males in the local church. This book also examines the work of leading theorists in male leadership. This book is a solution to a male leadership crisis in the black home, church, and community. This book will enlighten all leaders regarding the leadership crisis in America and sound the bell for transformation across the globe! One must be transformed by training, love, grace, and blood of Jesus to be a transformer in the home, church, or community.
Author: Dave Williams Publisher: ISBN: 9780938020790 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
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They are wall breakers and city takers! Don't try to stop them. They are unstoppable. Don't try to understand them. Don't try to figure them out. They are different often unorthodox in their approach and they are coming to your city. They are ... The Emerging Leaders - A New Breed of Church Leadership for the 21st Century. God has given you a call and a destiny. It has never been more important that you carry it out purposefully. We live in perilous times and high-risk days which are leading up to the final moments of history. Time is about up. the countdown has begun, and soon the world will enter it's deepest hour of agony, a time of unparalleled terror and anguish. But high-risk days are also high-opportunity days for the Church, and I see an emerging breed of leaders stepping up to the challenge.
Author: Mark A. Noll Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 1467464627 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 323
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Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.
Author: Flora Claybrook Th.D.
Author: Flora Claybrook Th.D.
Author: Musa Ndlovu Larry Musa Ndlovu
Author: Leith Anderson
Author: Dennis Rainey
Author: Creigs C. Beverly,
Author: Bill Henegar
Author: Phyllis Thompson
Author: Manuel Howard
Author: Dave Williams
Author: Mark A. Noll