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  • Messy Church: Fresh Ideas for Building a Christ-Centered Community, By Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter Messy Church: Fresh Ideas for Building a Christ-Centered Community, By Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter
    Ebook

    Messy Church

    Fresh Ideas for Building a Christ-Centered Community

    Messy Church Series

    by Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    We like the idea of community, but where do we start?

    The Messy Church series provides resources to help your church bring together people of all ages and stages of faith, allowing them to experience a creative and fun-filled Christian community. Messy Church, the first book in the series, offers your church a tool to create a unique, ...

    Number of Studies: 15

  • Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, By Jim Belcher Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, By Jim Belcher
    Ebook

    Deep Church

    A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional

    by Jim Belcher
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner

    Feeling caught between the traditional church and the emerging church? Discover a third way: deep church.

    C. S. Lewis used the phrase "deep church" to describe the body of believers committed to mere Christianity. Unfortunately church in our postmodern ...

  • The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom, By Lee Beach The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom, By Lee Beach
    Ebook

    The Church in Exile

    Living in Hope After Christendom

    by Lee Beach

    The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That age ...

  • Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion, By Lamar Hardwick Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion, By Lamar Hardwick
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    Disability and the Church

    A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion

    by Lamar Hardwick
    Foreword by Bill Gaventa

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompteda difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in ...

  • Church for Everyone: Building a Multi-Inclusive Community for Emerging Generations, By Daniel Kreiss and Efrem Smith Church for Everyone: Building a Multi-Inclusive Community for Emerging Generations, By Daniel Kreiss and Efrem Smith
    Ebook

    Church for Everyone

    Building a Multi-Inclusive Community for Emerging Generations

    by Dan Kreiss and Efrem Smith

    Diversity is a high value for younger generations—but too often, they’re not finding it in the church.

    Emerging generations in the West are more diverse than ever—ethnically, socioeconomically, educationally, and politically. And as church attendance among younger generations declines rapidly, research shows that one of their primary sticking points is the lack of diversity ...

  • The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity, By Bryan C. Loritts The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity, By Bryan C. Loritts
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    The Offensive Church

    Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity

    by Bryan Loritts

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Crises around race have put the church in a defensive posture, always reacting to racial conflicts in society. But Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity, where we push beyond mere diversity and into a biblical vision for ethnic unity.

    Bryan Loritts calls Christians ...

  • Becoming the Church: God's People in Purpose and Power, By Claude R. Alexander Becoming the Church: God's People in Purpose and Power, By Claude R. Alexander
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    Becoming the Church

    God's People in Purpose and Power

    by Claude Richard Alexander

    Many today have given up on church. But God has not and does not give up on the church. The church is God's idea. And once we truly understand what God has in mind for his people, we can become who he wants us to be.

    BishopClaude Alexander shows how the original Christians did not always understand what the church was supposed to be, but God worked in them anyway to become ...

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

  • Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, By Mark Glanville Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, By Mark Glanville
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    Improvising Church

    Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul

    by Mark R Glanville

    Word Guild Award Winner—Academic

    Englewood Review of Books Best Theology Book of the Year

    Plenty of books diagnose our post-Christian malaise. Here's a dynamic solution.

    The post-Christian cultural turn is creating the conditions for a crisis of confidence in the church and in pastoral ministry. While such changes can be disruptive ...

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

    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 ...