Created For Community Connecting Christian Belief With Christian Living

Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801021839
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Created for Community written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes theology accessible to a wider audience, introducing readers to the core doctrines of the Christian faith and encouraging them to connect belief with everyday life.

Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441220569
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Created for Community written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a classic college-level introduction to theology presents the core doctrines of the Christian faith, encouraging readers to connect belief with everyday life. Stanley Grenz, one of the leading evangelical scholars of his era, and Jay Smith, an expert on Grenz's theological legacy, construct a helpful theology that is biblical, historical, and contemporary. The third edition includes a foreword by John Franke, a new preface and afterword, resources for further study, and updated footnotes. The book's easy-to-use format includes end-of-chapter discussion questions and connects theological concepts with current cultural examples.

Author : James Werning
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532612273
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Intentional Community written by James Werning and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the neighborhood of your dreams. Here you'll find great friends. Help and encouragement. Shared meals and resources. Family gatherings. These pages present a parade of homes like you've never imagined . . . neighborhoods, farms, apartments, and houses in which Christians are discovering the key to contentment in community. It's nothing new. Community was God's idea in the garden. Sure, it was twisted by the fall, but the early church's example of healthy community is being re-experienced by many believers today. Maybe you're considering a move to an intentional community. Or maybe you want to develop deeper friendships and commitment without going anywhere at all. Then read on. These people can lead you to the next step, through engaging stories of brokenness, joyful surrender, creative awakenings, and simple childlikeness. Enjoy this colorful tour of some of the most alive and authentic communities in America today. This could be the most satisfying journey home that you have ever taken.

Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060608528
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Together written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1978-10-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness in the hearts of Christians around the world. His Letters and Papers from Prison became a prized testimony to Christian faith and courage, read by thousands. Now in Life Together we have Pastor Bonhoeffer's experience of Christian community. This story of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years reads like one of Paul's letters. It gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. The role of personal prayer, worship in common, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple, almost biblical, words. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship.

Author : Roger Helland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532636644
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devout Life written by Roger Helland and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church in the Western world is largely faltering in its spiritual and missional vitality. There’s a crisis of piety—or the devout life—heartfelt devotion to Christ and his cause. The Pietist movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries grew into a revolutionary torrent of spiritual renewal that influenced the Moravians, the Methodists, the great awakenings, and global evangelicalism as we know it today. The Devout Life explores and expands on ten key features of Pietism to plunge the depths of spiritual renewal for today.

Author : Randy Frazee
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310494362
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Connecting Church 2.0 written by Randy Frazee and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of meaningful relationships, where every member carries a significant sense of belonging, is central to what it means to be the church. So why do many Christians feel disappointed and disillusioned with their efforts to experience authentic community? Despite the best efforts of pastors, small group leaders, and faithful lay persons, church too often is a place of loneliness rather than connection. In this revised and updated version of his best-selling book, Randy Frazee shows us how church can be so much...better. More intimate and alive. The answer may seem radical today, but it was a central component of life in the early church. First-century Christians knew what it meant to live in vital community with one another, relating with a depth and commitment that made "the body of Christ" a perfect metaphor for the church. What would it take to reclaim that kind of love, joy, support, and dynamic spiritual growth? Read this book and find out.

Author : Stephen D. Lowe
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830887431
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age written by Stephen D. Lowe and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological innovation has changed nearly everything about human life, including how we teach and learn. Many Christian professors and institutions have embraced new technologies, especially online education. But as followers of Jesus Christ, we face the same call to grow in our faith. So how should we think about and approach Christian education in light of new technologies? Is it possible for us to grow spiritually through our digital communities? Steve Lowe and Mary Lowe, longtime proponents of online education, trace the motif of spiritual growth through Scripture and consider how students and professors alike might foster digital ecologies in which spiritual growth—even transformation—can take place. IVP Instructor Resources available.

Author : James M. Howard
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479286
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul, the Community, and Progressive Sanctification written by James M. Howard and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does the Christian community play in the process of growing in Christian maturity? This book argues that in Pauline theology the redeemed community is a necessary means for the progressive sanctification of the individual believer, an idea that is largely misunderstood in parts of the Western church. It evaluates foundational theological considerations traditionally omitted from sanctification studies and places them within the context of Pauline theology. Included are the missiological nature of holiness, the initiatory character of God, the creation of the new humanity as reflecting the image of God, and the impact upon the church resulting from the radical redefinition by Christ of the cultural symbols surrounding the Jewish temple system. This book offers a corrective to the individualized approach to Christian growth: For Paul, the focus of God's transformative activity culminates with the community rather than the individual, the goal of which is to reveal God's glory to the broader creation.

Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830891056
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Quest written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book of the Year What is ethics? Why should Christians care? Beginning with these basic questions, Stanley Grenz masterfully leads his readers into a theological engagement with moral inquiry. In The Moral Quest he sets forth the basics of ethics, considers the role and methods of Christian ethics in particular, and examines the ethical approaches of the Old Testament, the Gospels and Paul. He introduces the foundational theological ethics of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Luther and the Reformers. And he concludes with an evenhanded discussion of modern and contemporary Christian ethicists, including Albert Ritschl, Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, James Gustafson, Paul Ramsey, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., Gustavo Gutiérrez, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Stanley Hauerwas, Carl F. H. Henry and Oliver O'Donovan. Clear, concise, and well apprised of relevant literature, Grenz (a theologian recognized for the excellence of his own theological and ethical work) provides in this book a first-rate introduction to Christian ethics. The Moral Quest will well serve students, pastors and interested laypersons alike.

Author : K. Rex Butts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166679631X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gospel Portraits written by K. Rex Butts and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people realize that the cultural landscape of North America has shifted significantly. With such changes, new challenges for how churches live as a proclamation of the gospel have and continue to emerge. These challenges are related to the church's participation in the mission of God and particularly how local churches live faithfully to God while remaining relevant to such challenges. Because Scripture is revered as God's word, this matter also pertains to the way churches read Scripture, since the Bible does shape how churches embody the gospel. Gospel Portraits addresses the intersection of mission and hermeneutics for churches within their local contexts. Believing the gospel calls the church to follow Jesus and bear witness to the kingdom of God, this book proposes that churches should read the Bible as a Christ-centered and kingdom-oriented narrative. This reading of Scripture allows churches to reimagine how they might embody the gospel within their local contexts. Discerning what a contextual embodiment of the gospel involves, churches portray God's new creation in ways that are coherent with the biblical story and relevant to their local context. In doing so, churches live as Christ-formed and Spirit-led communities portraying the gospel.