Author: David Wheeler
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
ISBN: 9781415848562
Category : Witness bearing (Christianity)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study helps believers to cultivate a discipleship approach that embraces the values of worship and evangelism.
Worship and Witness
Author: David Wheeler
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
ISBN: 9781415848562
Category : Witness bearing (Christianity)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study helps believers to cultivate a discipleship approach that embraces the values of worship and evangelism.
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
ISBN: 9781415848562
Category : Witness bearing (Christianity)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study helps believers to cultivate a discipleship approach that embraces the values of worship and evangelism.
Reading Revelation Responsibly
Author: Michael J. Gorman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162189262X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation in a responsible way and a theological engagement with the text itself. He takes interpreting the book as a serious and sacred responsibility, believing how one reads, teaches, and preaches Revelation can have a powerful impact on one's own--and other people's--well-being. Gorman pays careful attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its connections to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith. Rather than a script for the end times, Gorman demonstrates how Revelation is a script for Christian worship, witness, and mission that runs counter to culturally embedded civil religion.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162189262X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation in a responsible way and a theological engagement with the text itself. He takes interpreting the book as a serious and sacred responsibility, believing how one reads, teaches, and preaches Revelation can have a powerful impact on one's own--and other people's--well-being. Gorman pays careful attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its connections to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith. Rather than a script for the end times, Gorman demonstrates how Revelation is a script for Christian worship, witness, and mission that runs counter to culturally embedded civil religion.
Christian Social Witness
Author: Harold T. Lewis
Publisher: Cowley Publications
ISBN: 146166053X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In this volume of The New Church’s Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium. Beginning with the Bible’s understandings of social justice, Lewis summarizes the Anglican witness of theologians like F. D. Maurice and William Temple and goes on to discuss the Episcopal Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later chapters discuss the challenges of a new social order that face the church today raised by liberation theology, third-world debt and economic justice, and questions of race, gender, and human sexuality. As with each book in The New Church’s Teaching Series, recommended resources for further reading and questions for discussion are included.
Publisher: Cowley Publications
ISBN: 146166053X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In this volume of The New Church’s Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium. Beginning with the Bible’s understandings of social justice, Lewis summarizes the Anglican witness of theologians like F. D. Maurice and William Temple and goes on to discuss the Episcopal Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later chapters discuss the challenges of a new social order that face the church today raised by liberation theology, third-world debt and economic justice, and questions of race, gender, and human sexuality. As with each book in The New Church’s Teaching Series, recommended resources for further reading and questions for discussion are included.
Witness to the Gospel
Author: I. Howard Marshall
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802844354
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
A distinguished group of scholars here provides a comprehensive survey of the theology of the early church as it is presented by the author of Acts. The twenty-five articles show the current state of scholarship and the main themes of theology in Acts.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802844354
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
A distinguished group of scholars here provides a comprehensive survey of the theology of the early church as it is presented by the author of Acts. The twenty-five articles show the current state of scholarship and the main themes of theology in Acts.
Why Church?
Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830852387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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? In this introduction to the nature of the local church, historian and missionary Scott Sunquist brings us a portrait of the church in motion, clarifying the two primary purposes of the church: worship and witness.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830852387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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? In this introduction to the nature of the local church, historian and missionary Scott Sunquist brings us a portrait of the church in motion, clarifying the two primary purposes of the church: worship and witness.
Our Membership Vows in the United Methodist Church
Author: Mark Stamm
Publisher: Upper Room Books
ISBN: 0881777706
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A resource for both newcomers to the United Methodist Church and those who have been members for decades, Our Membership Vows is a wonderful reflection on the vows each member takes upon joining the church. Members make covenant to uphold the vows, and each one is discussed in this easy-to-read booklet. A great gift idea for churches to give to new members.
Publisher: Upper Room Books
ISBN: 0881777706
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A resource for both newcomers to the United Methodist Church and those who have been members for decades, Our Membership Vows is a wonderful reflection on the vows each member takes upon joining the church. Members make covenant to uphold the vows, and each one is discussed in this easy-to-read booklet. A great gift idea for churches to give to new members.
Corporate Worship
Author: Matt Merker
Publisher: 9marks: Building Healthy Churc
ISBN: 9781433569821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In this addition to the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series, Matt Merker explores the biblical understanding of corporate worship as an activity where God gathers the church by his grace, unto his glory, for their mutual good, and before the world's gaze.
Publisher: 9marks: Building Healthy Churc
ISBN: 9781433569821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In this addition to the 9Marks Building Healthy Churches series, Matt Merker explores the biblical understanding of corporate worship as an activity where God gathers the church by his grace, unto his glory, for their mutual good, and before the world's gaze.
Pictures at a Theological Exhibition
Author: Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830839593
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Kevin Vanhoozer calls the church to a picture of theology that sees every person, thing and event in the light of God's act of reconciliation. Through essays on the church's worship, witness and wisdom, he reveals how a poetic imagination can answer the questions of life's meaning by drawing our attention to what really matters: the God of the gospel.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830839593
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Kevin Vanhoozer calls the church to a picture of theology that sees every person, thing and event in the light of God's act of reconciliation. Through essays on the church's worship, witness and wisdom, he reveals how a poetic imagination can answer the questions of life's meaning by drawing our attention to what really matters: the God of the gospel.
Christian Political Witness
Author: George Kalantzis
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
George Kalantzis and Gregory W. Lee edit twelve essays that explore the topic of Christian political witness, originally presented at the 2013 Wheaton Theology Conference. Contributors include Stanley Hauerwas, Mark Noll, William Cavanaugh, Peter Leithart and Scot McKnight.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896201
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
George Kalantzis and Gregory W. Lee edit twelve essays that explore the topic of Christian political witness, originally presented at the 2013 Wheaton Theology Conference. Contributors include Stanley Hauerwas, Mark Noll, William Cavanaugh, Peter Leithart and Scot McKnight.
Practicing Witness
Author: Benjamin T. Conner
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802866115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
How might a church infused with missional theology change the way it approaches Christian practices? Interacting both with the missional theology of George Hunsberger and Darrell Guder and with the theology of Christian practices laid out by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy Bass, Benjamin T. Conner argues that allowing these two disciplines to inform one another can enhance the nature of the church s witness, its congregational discipleship, and its theological education. Framing his work with real-world narratives and applications inspired by his work as a minister to adolescents with special needs, Conner shows how a practical missional mindset can redefine and reinvigorate the spirit and purpose of a congregation.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802866115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
How might a church infused with missional theology change the way it approaches Christian practices? Interacting both with the missional theology of George Hunsberger and Darrell Guder and with the theology of Christian practices laid out by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy Bass, Benjamin T. Conner argues that allowing these two disciplines to inform one another can enhance the nature of the church s witness, its congregational discipleship, and its theological education. Framing his work with real-world narratives and applications inspired by his work as a minister to adolescents with special needs, Conner shows how a practical missional mindset can redefine and reinvigorate the spirit and purpose of a congregation.