The Justice Primer: An 8-week Guide to Serving Through Community by Brandon Hatmaker Everyone's talking about social action and justice in the world. And for the first time in a long while, the Western church is looking for something designed to collectively point people outward and to give them a platform to do so together in community. The Justice Primer (previously titled The Barefoot Primer), is designed to be your guide on the journey of "learning to do right." It leads participants on a practical 8-week journey to put mission back into your small group or faith community. It's designed to help existing groups and churches begin or continue their journey toward being missional. If you desire to relearn the posture required to become missionaries in your context, and to equip others to engage culture through engaging the needs around them, The Justice Primer is your pilot. One of the most difficult parts in serving the least is getting started. We muster up the energy and willpower, but too often get stalled out with the details, easily forgetting the critical step of preparation. The Justice Primer is designed in such a way to walk you through each phase of the journey one step at a time.

The Justice Primer

Brandon Hatmaker

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Missio Publishing

"If the decline in the American church continues at present pace, the future leaders of Gods church will be plumbers, school teachers, stay at home moms, &amp; business owners." Hugh Halter 
Very few are talking about it yet, but thousands of pastors are opting for a Bi-Vocational lifestyle. Like the 16th century Trappists discovered, our prayer and our labor go hand in hand in God's economy. Everything is sacred, even our secular work. 
Bi-Vocational living doesn't have to mean doing two things poorly. It is the pathway of learning how to leverage all of life into one calling. The BiVO life: *Gives you natural street-cred with the culture you live among *Allows you to pastor, mentor, and disciple friends without the pressure of getting anything from them, or growing a church. *Opens up creative and natural ways to bless the culture and make the kingdom tangible. *Allows you to live naturally, while God builds His church from your life. 
The BiVO way may not be better for everyone...but it may be better for you. 
Get Hugh's BiVO book, take the free BiVO assessment, and join the growing BiVO Network for coaching, encouragement, and stories of the BiVO life.

Bivo: A Modern-Day Guide for Bi-Vocational Saints

Hugh Halter

Transcend: Beyond the Limits of Discipleship

Matt Smay

The Gospel Primer: 8 Weeks to Transformation in Community 
 Many in our churches have spent years listening to sermons, studying theology and reading the Word of God, yet still feel intimidated or unable to naturally express the good news of the Gospel into normal life, conversations, and circumstances. We will never experience gospel-transformation and missional movement unless this changes. The Gospel Primer is designed to help any group of people cultivate a practical understanding of the gospel and grow in gospel fluency--the ability to proclaim and demonstrate the gospel in absolutely every area of life. 
 As church leaders around the world have started forming new mission-focused, incarnational communities, they have consistently discovered that they need a greater grasp of the transforming Gospel of the Kingdom. When we get this right, everything else changes. Life together in community becomes possible-not out of obligation-but out of a gratefulness and confidence that the Gospel alone can give. Speaking the truth in love is no longer a scary thing, sharing our faith doesn't have to weird us out; the Gospel truly is transformational good news! 
 Together, over 8 weeks, The Gospel Primer will help you creatively learn: What is the Gospel? We'll look at The Story of God that illustrates the gospel throughout all of scripture. You'll learn how to form and tell your personal 'My Gospel Story' in a natural, yet powerful way. We'll also look at how the Gospel has actually given us a new identity in Christ and how to live out the truth of this gospel identity in the normal rhythms of everyday life. We know of no other resource that can help you gain such a useable understanding and practice of the Gospel in such a short period of time as The Gospel Primer.

The Gospel Primer

Caesar Kalinowski

For far too long now the church has tried to extend the logic and impact of Jesus’s ministry on its own terms. And yet there is clear guidance from Scripture itself as to how the church can be the fulness of Christ in the world. A vital part of the answer to a renewed ministry in the church, one capable of matching the challenges we face, is found in Eph.4:1-16. 
Every time the explicit teaching of the text has been is taken seriously and properly integrated into the life of God’s people, history has been in the making. 
This playbook (developed from the award winning The Permanent Revolution) is designed to introduce the disciple to his or her own, Jesus-given, vocational profile. This is important for all of God’s people, because discovering your ministry will give you a direct clue to your distinctive contribution in the world.

The Permanent Revolution Playbook: APEST for the People of God: A Six Week Exploration

Religion & Spirituality

Alan Hirsch

Tim Catchim

Christian Books & Bibles

The totally doable, nuts and bolts essentials of reproducing leaders, disciples and community.Clarify the win. The Church has been run in much the same way for decades. We've run programs, services, built buildings and run conferences. But have we ever clarified the win? What would it look like if we really achieved the thing that is most on the heart of God? Escape busyness. For many of us caught up in the treadmill of Church activity, we've lost sight of the abundant life Jesus offers us. Needless, stress-inducing busyness is a sure sign that we have got something badly wrong. But joy is the hallmark of getting this right.Fulfill your true purpose. As we clarify the win, escaping busyness, we will surely begin to find our true north-the purpose for which the reason the Church exists. This book will release faith in your heart for that to happen, and impart some practical steps towards achieving it.

Reimagine Church: Clarify the Win. Escape Busyness. Fulfill Your True Purpose. [The totally doable, nuts and bolts essentials of reproducing leaders, disciples and community.]

Harding, Nic

Transformed: Discipleship And Mission As A Lifestyle

Kalinowski, Caesar F

MADE FOR MORE: Being Disciples. Making Disciples.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ingle, Kent

Saccone, Steve

Social Sciences

Slow Burn: Relaxing Into Theology

Kalinowski, Caesar

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