Catastrophe - natural, economic, environmental and military - has become the defining feature of our time. The choice we have as Christians is how we deal with it. Do we see crisis as God's judgement or do we struggle to overcome it? Do we find our solutions through the mission of the church or through the structures of the world? Do we even have to face the crisis at all? Arguing that our approach to this world determines our experience of the next, and that what we do with this planet and its people reflects our identity and our priorities, this book is a call for Christians to learn to interpret the signs of the times and to think theologically and Biblically about their response.

Christians and Catastrophe

Jonathan Ingleby

Religion & Spirituality

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What would happen if God were to bring ten new believers into the Church in a single day? Would we be able to disciple them? What if it were a hundred people in a week? Do you think it's possible to receive a thousand new believers a month? If a million people were saved, would the Church be ready to disciple them? The Lord wants us to prepare workers for the harvest - people with a simple message of love and service, who can pass that message on. If we want to see many, many people come to Christ, then we will need to find a way for them to be discipled and to become disciplers. This book from the Japanese house church provides one way for any Christian to become a discipler: it gives simple, practical ways to live out the Gospel, to explain the Gospel, and to pass the baton of discipleship on to others.

Upward, Outward, Inward

Fukuda, Mitsuo

<p>¿As we read through the Bible we see the reality that God created the universe to display his glory... this glory is not domineering or controlling, but rather is expressed through the weakness of self-sacrificial love. Without the idea of the weakness of self-sacrificial love, then glory could all too easily become domineering and overly controlling... Without the idea of glory, self-sacrificial love would soon slip from weakness into complete acquiescence and a complete loss of self-identity. Held together the two ideas complement and challenge each other.¿\nIn this cogent study of the concept of glory throughout the Bible, Tom Wilson argues that the glory of God is expressed primarily through his weakness ¿ and ultimately through the glory of the beaten, bruised and crucified Jesus. God¿s idea of glory, it seems, is very different from our own...</p>

Glorious Weakness

Wilson, Tom

Naming the Frame

Ingleby, Jonathan

Jesus Decoded

Marsh, Les

On the journey of life, none of us know what is around the next bend. All of us need guidance and wisdom from the One who knows our final destination and how to get there.   This book takes us on two journeys: one is a physical journey, through the lands of Central Asia and the Caucasus, but on the way, we also find ourselves on a journey of spiritual discovery. In the course of conversations with people along the Silk Route, our eyes are opened to new truths that we might not have noticed but are actually all around us. We will discover that, for the one who has eyes to see, our cultures and some of our traditions, like circumcision or the paying of kalym - and even the carpets under our feet! - can act as signposts on the way to the Mountain of God.

Silk Road Pilgrimage

David, Pilgrim

The rise of Asian mission poses important questions to the global Church: How can we best relate to these burgeoning Asian mission movements? What can we learn from them? What models of partnership, mutual support and resourcing are appropriate-on both sides? This book presents the papers from three Asian Mission Consultations held at Redcliffe College in Gloucester between 2008 and 2010, which brought together mission leaders and practitioners from Asian and non-Asian missions to interact with these questions.

Understanding Asian Mission Movements

“The wonderful privilege of being a mentor is to be able to catch a glimpse of what God wants to do in someone’s life, what He wants to achieve through their life―the dream that God has for them.” Helping people grow is not just a job for the pastor or the minister. Anyone can have that privilege. It’s not a matter of special wisdom or technique. It’s about coming alongside people and bringing them to God―and watching and wondering as He does the rest. The first mentoring handbook to come out of Asia, Mentoring Like Barnabas provides down-to-earth and practical tips for those mentoring Asians and non-Asians alike.

Mentoring Like Barnabas

"A breadth of research... based on careful missiological study... could hold an important key to the advance of the Kingdom of God in the land of the rising sun." - C. Peter Wagner   What would a truly Japanese church look like - a church contextualized to Japanese needs, that sought to answer Japanese questions from a Japanese worldview? To find out, we first need to find out what those Japanese questions are and to understand how the Japanese worldview works!   This study unpacks the social and religious assumptions that make up the Japanese way of seeing the world, and examines the cycle of rituals that make up a Japanese religious life. It then brings these views and assumptions into dialogue with the ecclesiology of the Apostle Paul and of contemporary Western theologians, producing new images of Church which resonate with a Japanese heart, and suggests new rituals which redeem and transform Japanese religious symbols.

Developing a Contextualized Church as a Bridge to Christianity in Japan

The things which are right in front of us can often be the things which are most hidden. In Japan, the word omote means 'face'. But it also means 'mask' - something that a person uses to hide an inner reality. Face-value questions - 'Are the Japanese religious?' 'What do they believe?' - produce face-value answers. We need to delve deeper. This book explores the motivations behind why Japanese people act in a 'religious' way, based on what ordinary people say about their attitudes and experiences. In the process it also uncovers core values within Japanese culture. By understanding these motivations and values, we discover that the Son of Man came not to destroy Japanese culture but to fulfil it. This fully revised and updated edition includes data from the latest surveys of Japanese attitudes, church statistics, and the most recent research into Japanese society and religion.

The Unseen Face of Japan

Lewis, David C.

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