The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church - Couverture souple

Frost, Michael Alan Hirsch

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801046300 ISBN 13 : 9780801046308

Editeur : Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Hirsch Alan Frost Michael

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For the first time we in the West are living in what has been called a post-Christendom era. Most people throughout the Western world have seen what the Church has to offer, and they have found it wanting. The current credibility gap has made it hard to communicate the gospel with clarity and authenticity. Paradoxically, this is the case even though it is currently a time of almost unprecedented openness to the issues of God, faith, and meaning. This is a time when the need for, and relevance of, the gospel has seldom been greater, but the relevance of the Church has seldom been less. If ever there was a time for innovative missionary effort in the West, it is now. This raises enormous challenges for Gods people in the West. This book explores why the Church needs to recalibrate itself, rebuilding itself from the roots up. The case is built around real-life stories gathered from innovative missional projects from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and England. These spirited experiments of Gospel community serve to point out just how varied a genuinely incarnational approach to mission can, and indeed needs to, become. They present vital nodes of missional learning for the established Church as it seeks to orientate itself to the unique challenges of the twenty-first century.

Biographie de l'auteur

Alan Hirsch is founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and cofounder of Shapevine.com, an international forum for engaging with world-transforming ideas. Currently he leads an innovative learning program called Future Travelers which helps megachurches become missional movements. He is the author of numerous books, including The Forgotten Ways, and coauthor of Untamed and Right Here, Right Now. Hirsch lives in the Los Angeles area. Michael Frost is vice principal of Morling College; founding director of the Tinsley Institute at Morling college in Sydney, Australia; and a Baptist minister. He is the author of Jesus the Fool, Seeing God in the Ordinary, and Exiles, and the coauthor of The Shaping of Things to Come. He lives in Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801046300
• ISBN 13: 9780801046308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible