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Total Church
Tim ChesterSteve Timmis
Publisher's Description: Two pastors outline and apply a pair of overarching biblical principles that call the current body of Christ to a deep restructuring of its life and mission.
"Church is not a meeting you attend or a place you enter," write pastors Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. "It’s an identity that is ours in Christ. An identity that shapes the whole of life so that life and mission become ‘total church.’" With that as their premise, they emphasize two overarching principles to govern the practice of church and mission: being gospel-centered and being community-centered. When these principles take precedence, say the authors, the truth of the Word is upheld, the mission of the gospel is carried out, and the priority of relationships is practiced in...
The Connecting Church
Randy Frazee
Publisher Description: This book explores the three essential elements of real community and helps readers put into practice the fifteen principles that undergird those essentials.
The Younger Evangelicals
Robert E. Webber
Over two decades ago, Richard Quebedeaux's classic The Young Evangelicals told the story of a new generation of believers. Now, in The Younger Evangelicals, Robert Webber explores how another generation of emerging leaders is bringing sweeping change and renewal to the twenty-first century evangelical church. Webber explores the characteristics of these emerging leaders and provides an outlet for their stories. After giving an overview of twentieth century evangelicalism, he examines how the way "younger...
Seek the Peace of the City
Eldin Vilafane
This volume sounds a ringing summons to today's churches to give primacy once again to urban ministry. Written mostly by Eldin Villafañe, this book also includes chapters by Douglas Hall, Efraín Agosto, and Bruce W. Jackson.
Justo Gonzalez writes, “Villafañe provides us with a worthy sequel to his ground-breaking first book, The Liberating Spirit. Speaking out of his great wealthy of experience in Latino barrios...
Let the Nations Be Glad
John Piper
Since its publication a decade ago, Let the Nations Be Glad! has provided thousands of seminary students, missionaries, and pastors with a sound theological foundation for missions. Piper now offers a revised and expanded edition of this theological and biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things.
This revised and expanded edition contains updated references to contemporary literature and debates and new illustrations and quotations. This edition also contains a new preface and a final...