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  • Men and Women in the Church: Building Consensus on Christian Leadership, By Sarah Sumner
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    Men and Women in the Church

    Building Consensus on Christian Leadership

    by Sarah Sumner
    Foreword by Phillip E. Johnson

    Evangelicals stand divided in their view of women in the church.On one side stand complementarians, arguing the full worth of women but assigning them to differing roles. On the other side stand egalitarians, arguing that the full worth of women demands their equal treatment and access to leadership roles. Is there a way to mend the breach and build consensus?Sarah Sumner thinks there is. Avoiding ...

  • Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World, By JR Woodward
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    Creating a Missional Culture

    Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World

    Forge Partnership Books

    by JR Woodward
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch

    Once upon a time, Moses had had enough.Exhausted by the challenge of leading the Israelites from slavery to the Promised Land, Moses cried out to God, "What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? . . . If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me" (Exodus 11:11, 15).If that sounds hauntingly familiar to you, you may be the senior ...

  • Remissioning Church: A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, By Josh Hayden
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    Remissioning Church

    A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life

    by Joshua Ryan Hayden

    Outreach Resource of the Year

    Englewood Review of Books Readers' Best Award Winner

    Rediscover Your Church's Mission!

    Many churches are struggling to connect with theircommunities and are facing a decline. But there's hope! God is inviting His church to be reborn from the inside out, transforming into a new missional ...

  • Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity, By Robert Chao Romero
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    Brown Church

    Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

    by Robert Chao Romero

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist

    Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new.

    For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition ...

  • Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    Many Christians today long to become reacquainted with their ancient ancestors in the faith. They see a deeper worship and devotion in the prayers and hymns of the early church. And they believe that the writings of the early church can shed new light on their understanding of Scripture.

    But where and how do we begin? Our first encounter with the writings of the church fathers may seem like ...

  • Empowered Church Leadership: Ministry in the Spirit According to Paul, By Brian J. Dodd
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    Empowered Church Leadership

    Ministry in the Spirit According to Paul

    by Brian J. Dodd

    You've seen or heard the promises:

    • Proven leadership strategies.
    • Grow your church by 30 percent.
    • Increase your budget through sound marketing principles.

    The lure of success can be seductive, and the adoptionof secular standards or methods to achieve it may seem a small but necessary price to pay. Brian J. Dodd, however, holds out a different model for us, ...

  • A Future for the Latino Church: Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations, By Daniel A. Rodriguez
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    A Future for the Latino Church

    Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations

    by Daniel A. Rodriguez
    Foreword by Manuel Ortiz

    Many assume that Hispanic ministry in North America still necessarily focuses on Spanish-language congregations. But over 60 percent of all American Latinos were born in the United States and are now English dominant.

    Daniel Rodriguez argues that effective Latino ministry and church planting are now centered in second-generation, English-dominant leadership and congregations. Based on his ...

  • The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting with the Movement Shaping Our Culture, By Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson
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    The Hip-Hop Church

    Connecting with the Movement Shaping Our Culture

    by Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson
    Foreword by Bakari Kitwana and Alton B. Pollard III

    Hip-hop is here.The beats ring out in our cities. Hip-hop culture is all around us: in the clothes youth wear, in the music they listen to, in the ways they express themselves. It is the language they speak, the rhythm they move to. It is a culture familiar with the hard realities of our broken world; the generation raised with rap knows about the pain. They need to know about the hope.Enter the ...

  • These books bring together a diversity of viewpoints from some of the most thoughtful Christian voices engaging technology today, offering biblical grounding, practical guidance, and honest wrestling with hard questions. Keep reading to find resources that will equip you to engage technology faithfully as a Christian.

  • Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission, By David E. Fitch
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    Faithful Presence

    Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

    by David E. Fitch

    • Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016

    In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again: Is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation ...