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  • Seeing Jesus In East Harlem

    $18.00

    Introduction

    Part 1: Show Up
    1. El Testimonio: Go And Show Yourself
    2. The “Here I Ams” Of Life: Calling And Holy Disorientation
    3. Incarnational: Tracing Our Presence Through Christ’s Body
    4. Naming Whiteness: Discerning Space As Disciple Making

    Part 2: Staying Put
    5. Staying Public: Welcoming Home The Prophets
    6. Remaining At Work: Becoming God’s Crowdsource In The Barrio
    7. Staying Together: When Hope Became A Household

    Part 3: See
    8. Look Again: Generous Seeing As A Measure Of Discipleship
    9. Curating Heaven: Dance And Dirge At Christ’s Table
    10. El Culto: Marking Life’s Moments, Rescripting Trauma
    11. Apocalypse: Church From A Different Vantage Point

    Acknowledgments
    Notes

    Additional Info
    We are all located in different places. Some of us move from neighborhood to neighborhood or even state to state. And the way we grow as disciples and lead others in spiritual growth depends on our contexts. Pastor Jose Humphreys recognizes how deeply our faith is tied to our particular stories in our particular places. Grounded in his own deep faith and wisdom, he writes out of his experiences as a Puerto Rican pastor who has planted a multiethnic church in East Harlem. In this book, he offers a framework to help church leaders take discipleship seriously in their places, calling them to show up, stay put, and see what God is doing in their midst. Combining spiritual formation with activism, vivid narrative with exhortation, and realism with hopefulness, Humphreys offers pastors and church planters a thoughtful look at discipleship in a complex world.

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  • Canoeing The Mountains (Expanded)

    $25.00

    Part 1: Understanding Uncharted Territory
    1. Seminary Didn’t Prepare Me For This
    2. Adventure Or Die
    3. A Leadership Model For Uncharted Territory

    Part 2: On-the-Map Skill Set
    4. Competence And Credibility
    5. Preparing For The Unknown
    6. Eating Strategy For Breakfast

    Part 3: Leading Off The Map
    7. Navigating The “Geography Of Reality”
    8. My Italian Grandfather Was Killing Me
    9. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There . . . Then Do Something
    10. The Mission Trumps!
    11. Take A Good Look Into The Coffin

    Part 4: Relationships And Resistance
    12. Gus And Hal Go To Church
    13. Et Tu, Church?

    Part 5: Transformation
    14. How A Nursing Mother Saved America
    15. The End Of Our Exploring

    Epilogue: Taking The Hill With Grandma
    Study Guide
    Acknowledgments
    Notes

    Additional Info
    14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, LeadershipExplorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along.Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world.If you’re going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. Now expanded with a study guide, this book will set you on the right course to lead with confidence and courage.

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  • Ekklesia : Rediscovering God’s Instrument For Global Transformation (Reprinted)

    $15.99

    In this vital, eye-opening book, bestselling author Ed Silvoso equips believers to transform the world around them. Amid the social, political, and moral chaos in our world today, he shows how we can become the church, the ekklesia, that Jesus called us to be: the revolutionary, transformational, life-giving force that people and nations so desperately need.

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  • Organizing Church : Grassroots Practices For Embodying Change In Your Congr

    $24.99

    What if congregations embraced community organizing? While many theories exist on how to plant or how to renew a church and its leadership, Organizing Church offers a unique perspective that brings together the tools of community organizing and a robust ecclesiology to suggest a new way forward for revitalizing and empowering churches. This book is a helpful field guide for pastors and other church leaders trying to build healthy congregations, create a deep culture of discipleship in their community, and to respond to the challenges presented by the global culture of the 21st century.

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  • Faithful Presence : Seven Disciplines That Shape The Church For Mission

    $24.00

    Faithful Presence aims to reshape how we think about the church, what we do in the name as church, and the way we lead as church. It offers seven distinct spiritual practices that are undergirded by sound theology to provide a fuller vision for how people can come together to live in and for Christ and his Kingdom.

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  • Virtual Body Of Christ In A Suffering World

    $22.99

    We live in a wired world where 24/7 digital connectivity is increasingly the norm. Christian megachurch communities often embrace this reality wholeheartedly while more traditional churches often seem hesitant and overwhelmed by the need for an interactive website, a Facebook page and a twitter feed. This book accepts digital connectivity as our reality, but presents a vision of how faith communities can utilize technology to better be the body of Christ to those who are hurting while also helping followers of Christ think critically about the limits of our digital attachments. This book begins with a conversion story of a non-cell phone owning, non-Facebook using religion professor judgmental of the ability of digital tools to enhance relationships. A stage IV cancer diagnosis later, in the midst of being held up by virtual communities of support, a conversion occurs: this religion professor benefits in embodied ways from virtual sources and wants to convert others to the reality that the body of Christ can and does exist virtually and makes embodied difference in the lives of those who are hurting. The book neither uncritically embraces nor rejects the constant digital connectivity present in our lives. Rather it calls on the church to a) recognize ways in which digital social networks already enact the virtual body of Christ; b) tap into and expand how Christ is being experienced virtually; c) embrace thoughtfully the material effects of our new augmented reality, and c) influence utilization of technology that minimizes distraction and maximizes attentiveness toward God and the world God loves.

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  • Pictures At A Theological Exhibition

    $20.00

    In this collection of essays, Kevin Vanhoozer turns from hermeneutical theory to hermeneutical practice through explorations of how theology informs the church’s worship, witness and wisdom.

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  • Sorting Out Catholicism

    $19.95

    Focolare, Community of Sant’Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. These are but a few of the most recognizable names in the broader context of the so-called ecclesial movements. Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council, crosses Vatican II, and develops throughout the twentieth century. It is a history that prepares the movements’ rise in the last three decades, from John Paul II to Francis. These movements are a complex phenomenon that shapes the Church now more than before, and they play a key role for the future of Catholicism as a global community, in transition from a Europe-centered tradition to a world Church.

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  • Essential Church : A Wesleyan Ecclesiology

    $19.99

    With so many denominations and differing ideas about what the church is and does, arriving at a clear understanding of the church is a formidable challenge. The pastors and educators who have contributed to this book explore the meaning,purpose, and function of the church, as well as its structure. They address topics such as the kingdom of God, worship, and mission, in relation to the body of Christ, and give special attention to Wesleyan theological concerns.This theology of the church is an accessible resource for anyone, minister or layperson, who desires a better grasp of the church. This stimulating ecclesiology is a valuable addition to any theological library.

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  • Community Of Jesus

    $24.99

    Intended for upper division college students, seminarians, and pastors, The Community of Jesus delivers a biblical, historic, systematic, and missional theology of the church.

    Today the word church provokes wide-ranging reactions and generates discussion on a variety of issues among Christians and non-Christians alike. In order to sort through this maze of responses and topics, a biblical and theological foundation must be laid that provides a clear vision of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ and its significance in God’s eternal purpose.

    With extensive pastoral, teaching, missions, and administrative experience, this team of contributors carefully sets forth the biblical teachings concerning the church and then builds on this core material, relating the theology of the church to salvation history, church history, God’s glory, and God’s mission:

    * Paul R. House, “God Walks with His People: Old Testament Foundations”
    * Andreas J. Kostenberger, “The Church According to the Gospels”
    * Kendell H. Easley, “The Church in Acts and Revelation: New Testament Bookends”
    * David S. Dockery, “The Church in the Pauline Epistles”
    * Ray Van Neste, “The Church in the General Epistles”
    * James A. Patterson, “The Church in History: Ecclesiastical Ideals and Institutional Realities”
    * Stephen J.Wellum, “Beyond Mere Ecclesiology: The Church as God’s New Covenant Community”
    * Christopher W. Morgan, “The Church and the Glory of God”
    * Bruce Riley Ashford, “The Church in the Mission of God”

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  • ChurchMorph

    $24.00

    It is estimated that 80 percent of churches across the theological spectrum are either stalled or in decline. In ChurchMorph, internationally respected church observer Eddie Gibbs goes beyond an analysis of the causes to show how many churches and faith communities are actually breaking the downward trend. He expertly maps current converging church movements–emerging and missional churches, mainline renewal groups, megachurches, urban mission, new monasticism, alternative worship, and expanding networks–and offers a positive assessment of the reshaping of today’s church.

    Gibbs argues that more is required of Western churches than adopting new programs if they are to missionally engage within their context. The church must re-image itself, resulting in its reconfiguration and a comprehensive change in its self-understanding; it must morph in order to be defined by its mission in the world. Gibbs identifies trends that provide signs of the kingdom, reflecting on how different ecclesial communities are working out what it means to be “church” in a post-Christendom environment. He provides a range of examples from North America and the United Kingdom to offer encouragement and assurance that God has by no means abandoned his church.

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  • United And Uniting

    $18.00

    This book provides historical perspective and a call to recover the original vision for a greater understanding of the denomination.

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  • Great Giveaway : Reclaiming The Mission Of The Church (Reprinted)

    $22.00

    Has the North American church relinquished her God-given mission to parachurch organizations, psychotherapy, and consumer capitalism? Warning that postmodern evangelicals are increasingly modeling their ministries after secular sciences and “farming out” church functions in the name of efficiency, Fitch challenges believers to reclaim the lost practices of evangelism, physical healing, and spiritual formation.

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  • Tabernacle Workbook : Lesson Guide With 12 Fun Lessons – Ages 10-Adult – Ex (Wor

    $11.99

    The Tabernacle Workbook
    This workbook is packed with reproducible activity and information sheets on the Tabernacle, the sacrifices, the furnishings (including the Ark of the Covenant), the priests’ garments, and the symbolism that points to Jesus. Includes diagrams of the Tabernacle, drawings of all of the furnishings, and pictures of the High Priestly garments. Includes worksheets, codes and clues, puzzles, and activities. Perfect for youth or adults.

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  • Church

    $15.95

    A book about the church that Jesus is building, a church author Chant claims is triumphant and powerful, built on the foundation of the Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.

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  • Tabernacle In The Wilderness

    $15.99

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    While the Old Testament presents many types of the person and work of Christ, few are as detailed and as instructive as the Tabernacle, the offerings, and the priesthood. John Ritchie’s classic study illuminates a richly rewarding area of Old Testament studies.

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