Movements That Change the World

Author: Steve Addison
Publisher: Missional Press
ISBN: 0979805376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
This book is for anyone who wants to follow Jesus and change the world. Movements that change the world are characterized by white-hot faith, commitment to a cause, contagious relationships, rapid mobilization, and adaptive methods. Jesus founded a missionary movement. His followers are called to continue his mission in the power of the Holy Spirit. A thoroughly readable description of the dynamics of missionary movements and how to initiate, maintain, and extend them. ALAN HIRSCH Author of The Forgotten Ways Steve synthesizes his vast amounts of experience, wisdom, and research into an easy-to-read book. NEIL COLE Author of Organic Church Practitioners and thinkers with a passion for mission will want to read and re-read this book. DR. MARTIN ROBINSON Co-author of Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination An important book for our times well researched, well written, and well thought out. DR. ROBERT E. LOGAN Author of Be Fruitful and Multiply I couldnt put it down till it finished rearranging my mind. This is a keeper! RALPH MOORE Author of How To Multiply Your Church Steve identifies the core characteristics of movements and does it in a way that enables all of us, not just the academics, to understand. BOB ROBERTS Author of The Multiplying Church As I read the manuscript I felt that I had met a long-lost brother. I had to read it through in a single sitting. DAVID GARRISON Author of Church Planting Movements Steve casts a compelling future vision by tracing Gods discernible lessons demonstrated in movements. He taps into the heart hunger of the growing number of us that want to see God do something great. ED STETZER Author of Planting Missional Churches I love this book! Every so often a book comes along that fuels the flame that was started in my heart years ago when I was a young and on-fire world changer. FLOYD MCCLUNG Author of You See Bones, I See an Army About the author Steve Addison is a lifelong student of movements that renew and expand the Christian faith. He serves as Australian director of Church Resource Ministries. Steves calling is to spark church planting movements everywhere.

Movements That Change the World

Author: Steve Addison
Publisher: IVP
ISBN: 9780830836192
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Steve Addison gleans the characteristics of the dynamic missionary movement from biblical, historical and contemporary case studies. Addison shows how these factors recur in every period of Christian expansion, and suggests that Christianity's distinction as a historical movement lies in its power to outlast the centuries.

What Jesus Started

Author: Steve Addison
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830866434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Sometimes we get so caught up in the power of Jesus shouting from the cross, "It is finished!" that we forget that Jesus started something too. Uncovering the inner dynamics of Jesus's work with the disciples, veteran church planter Steve Addison reminds us that Christianity is a movement with a unique design for expansion.

Pioneering Movements

Author: Steve Addison
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830844414
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history—a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching the world. What does it take to lead movements like that today? Steve Addison shows how to follow Jesus' example, offering a vision of apostolic leadership that embraces Jesus' mandate to make disciples of all nations, in all places.

Church Planting Movements

Author: V. David Garrison
Publisher: WIGTake Resources
ISBN: 9780974756202
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
David Garrison, PhD University of Chicago, defines Church Planting Movements as rapidly multiplying indigenous churches planting churches that sweep across a people group or population segment. Garrison's Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World signaled a breakthrough in missionary church planting. After the publication of Garrison's book in 2004 it became impossible to talk about missions without referencing Church Planting Movements. Church Planting Movements examines more than two-dozen movements of multiplying churches on five continents. After presenting these case studies, Garrison identifies ten universal elements present in each movement. He then broadens the circle of examination to identify a further ten common characteristics, factors identified in most, but not all, of the movements. He concludes his examination with a list of "Seven Deadly Sins," i.e. harmful practices that stifle or impede Church Planting Movements. Important for evangelical readers, the author returns to his findings to see how they stand up to the light of Scripture. What he discovers is that Church Planting Movements are much more consistent with the New Testament lay-led house-church movements that swept rapidly through the Mediterranean world in the face of hostile opposition than today's more sedentary professional institutionalized Christianity. Learn more about Church Planting Movements from the book's website: www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com.

Selling Out the Church

Author: Philip D. Kenneson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 159244296X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Marketing the church is hot. For many church leaders, marketing might even be the first article of their creed, which goes something like this: We believe that our church determines its identity and mission through the tactics of marketing strategies. Theologians Kenneson and Street offer a thoughtful and provocative protest, with a foreword from Stanley Hauerwas. The authors expose the theological presuppositions that inform the marketing project. . . and help us to see that the marketer's presumption that form can be separated from content of the gospel betrays an understanding of the gospel that cannot help betraying the gift that is Christ. The authors propose an alternative, constructive account of the church's mission and purpose that is not based on exchange of value but on reminding us that the gospel is always a gift - a gift that makes impossible any presumptions that there can be an exchange between human beings and God that is rooted in the satisfaction of our untrained needs. The cross and resurrection challenge the world's understanding of what our needs should be.

Houses that Change the World

Author: Wolfgang Simson
Publisher: Authentic
ISBN: 9781850783565
Category : House churches
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Millions of Christians around the world are becoming aware of an imminent reformation of global proportions within the church. God is changing this revered institution and is making a new collective awareness of an age-old revelation, a corporate spiritual echo that reflects God's desire for the church. In this book, Simson brings to light what God is saying to Christians everywhere. Researched across the globe, he presents the case for the reformation of the church's existence. In a world where the church is being ignored, it is time to bring the church to the people and not the people to the church. Whether it is what we know as church from the last five years or the last five hundred years, no one has truly been able to break free from the structures of the past. Many may see this book as radical, many may see it as a reforming of old ideals but all who read it will be challenged and their priorities refocused in a life-changing way.

The Church as Movement

Author: JR Woodward
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830893628
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
JR Woodward and Dan White Jr. have trained church planters all over North America. In this interactive field manual, they help you and your team gain eight key competencies crucial for church planting so that you can create churches that flourish and launch their own sustainable missional and incarnational congregations.

Touch the World through Prayer

Author: Wesley L. Duewel
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 031035742X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
"God has a wonderful plan by which you can have a world influence through your prayer," writes Dr. Wesley Duewel. "God has planned that ordinary Christians like you and me can become mighty in prayer for the reaping of Christ's harvest among the nations today." Touch the World through Prayer explains how every Christian can pray for the missionaries, church leaders, and political leaders in countries around the globe where the gospel is being preached today. Dr. Duewel gives specific Bible promises that we can claim in these intercessory prayers. He describes how to pray in the power of Jesus' name, how to counteract the influence of Satan, how to recognize the work of angels in answer to prayer, and much more. Touch the World through Prayer provides step-by-step plans for making a prayer list, organizing a prayer circle, and holding a prayer retreat for your Christian friends who have a burden for missions.

Spirit Walk (Special Edition)

Author: Steve Smith
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 1645082288
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
The Holy Spirit is the Hidden Mover behind all personal life transformation and ministry fruitfulness. Since the original publication of Spirit Walk, author Steve Smith has gone home to meet the Lord face-to-face. However, before that glorious day, he penned an impassioned plea to believers in the last days of his life. That plea and piece of instruction is what comprises the new foreword in this special edition of Spirit Walk. Read and be both challenged and invited to a life lived in the power of the Holy Spirit. Though we know the Bible says to walk in the Spirit, the majority of Christians are illiterate (and even nervous) about how to practically live in His power. The result is lives marred by continued brokenness and ministries plagued by fruitlessness. In contrast, believers from Acts understood the ancient path of the Spirit Walk. That extraordinary power was not just for them, but also for us. Gleaning insights from implementation in dozens of Acts-like movements around the world, Spirit Walk “lifts the hood and shows us the real secret behind apostolic, disciple multiplying movements” (Neil Cole, author of Organic Church). Whether you need a movement of God in your personal life or in your ministry, this book takes you through the timeless principles of the Bible. The Spirit Walk path has helped thousands of ordinary people shift from a fundamental reliance upon methods and self-helps to the essential reliance upon the Spirit who empowers both. Discover how to start on your lifelong journey of being filled again and again by the Holy Spirit as you abide in Christ.