Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award Honored as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba…
Shelve Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission
Contextualization is the art of translating ideas into a particular situation, place or culture. It is fundamental to communication, which makes contextualization essential in missions. This textbook …
Shelve Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models
This major statement by a leading missiologist represents a lifetime of wrestling with a topic every cross-cultural leader must how to adapt the universal gospel to particular settings. This comprehen…
Shelve Contextualizing the Faith: A Holistic Approach
While the gospel is timeless truth, it enters into ever-changing and widely varied human contexts. In order to meaningfully communicate the gospel to particular humans, those involved in cross-cultura…
Shelve The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions
Christian missionaries generally head out to the field with a single assessment of the human condition--humans are fallen, sinful creatures in need of salvation. Yet, as the history of missiology deve…
Shelve To Understand the World, To Save the World (Christian Mission & Modern Culture)
This fresh, comprehensive text fills a need for an up-to-date theology of mission. It offers creative approaches to answering some of the most pressing questions in theology of mission and missionary …
Shelve Encountering Theology of Mission: Biblical Foundations, Historical Developments, and Contemporary Issues (Encountering Mission)
Jesus' Great Commission is one of the key pillars of the church's evangelistic work and has been the guiding principle for missionaries throughout church history. In 40 Questions about the Great Commi…
Many a Westerner has had a cross-cultural experience of honor and shame. First there are those stuttering moments in the new social landscape. Then after missed cues and social bruises comes the revel…
Shelve Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures: Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials
What does the Bible say about God's purpose for us, the witness of the church, and our mission to spread the message of the gospel? Chris Wright's pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God , revealed t…
Shelve The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission
With the new realities of global interconnectedness comes a greater awareness of cultural diversity from place to place. Besides differences in food and fashion, we face significant contrasts of cultu…
Shelve Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World
This book argues that God's mission is broad and that all of us can live with missional intentionality by understanding the many facets of missions and focusing on a particular calling. Just like diff…
Shelve The Symphony of Mission: Playing Your Part in God's Work in the World
Many pastors struggle to translate their theological beliefs into fruitful ministry in the places they are called to reach. It's not enough to simply know what to believe (theology) or, on the other h…
Shelve Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
What is the role of culture in human experience? This introductory cultural anthropology textbook helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. The book covers …
Shelve Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective
Culture's influence upon Christianity is easier to discern in retrospect than in prospect. If history is our guide, one thing is This age will be as syncretistic as any other...How is the gospel being…
To enhance your ministry among the nations, learn how the Bible speaks to cultures of guilt, shame, and fear. Western theology emphasizes forgiveness of sins, but people in the Majority World seek hon…
Shelve The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures
This complete guide to expository preaching teaches the basics of preparation, organization, and delivery--the trademarks of great preaching. With the help of charts and creative learning exercises, C…
Shelve Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon
"This is a good translation of a very great book. "St Athanasius stood contra mundum for the Trinitarian doctrine 'whole and undefiled,' when it looked as if all the civilized world was slipping back …
Christianity Today Book Award winner Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? How is …
Shelve Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (Resources for Reconciliation)
The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Australians in India. Koreans plant churches in London and Los A…
Shelve Leading Across Cultures: Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
Pastor, preacher, and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shares his wisdom on communicating the Christian faith from the pulpit as well as from the coffee shop.
Mo…
Shelve Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
An in-depth look at Christian theology through Hispanic eyes. It weaves the doctrinal formulations of the early church on creation, the Trinity, and Christology into contemporary theological reflectio…
Shelve Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective
Drawn from a rich heritage, "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" will guide you through a carefully selected array of disciplines, including:
As followers of Jesus, we know that the good news is deeply attractive. But we often fear that to those on the outside, it comes across as irrelevant or even repellent. Sometimes the Christian worldvi…
Shelve Making Faith Magnetic: Five Hidden Themes Our Culture Can't Stop Talking About... And How to Connect Them to Christ
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership m…
Shelve Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Religion in America)
It all started when Jesus called a few men to follow him and share God's message with their neighbors. We are called to do the same. But evangelism can be difficult--even intimidating. With all the ev…
With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to…
Shelve Effective Intercultural Communication: A Christian Perspective (Encountering Mission)
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his …
