When Christ calls people, he invites them on a journey—a journey taken together in community. We have reached a point in history, however, when we think of the church as a fixed place where isolated individuals show up, consume a Christian message, drink some coffee, and get on with their lives. The times demand, and the gospel proclaims, that we recover our identity as a church that is a people on a quest for the kingdom of heaven, formed intimately by a loving God and called onto a long journey for the sake of our neighbors and our world. In The Missional Quest you?ll learn how to take your church on a long run, and how to sustain yourselves and one another along the way, through the power of God for the sake of the world.
قائمة المحتويات
Foreword by Ed Stetzer
Introduction
Section One
Fostering a Missional Mindset (How Should My Church be Thinking?)
1. The Starting Line: Where the Missional Journey Begins
Section Two
Fostering a Missional Posture (What Steps Are Necessary?)
2. Stop and Go: Rhythms of Inner Formation
3. AD 30 All Over Again: Emphasizing Missionary Formation
4. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Knowing and Loving the Ones We Live Among
5. Home, Work and God’s Mission: Engaging Your First and Second Places
6. Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Importance of Third Places
7. Launching Pads: Small Groups Becoming Missional Communities
8. Follow the Follower: Developing a Missional Leadership Approach
9. Have a Great Trip: What Matters in the Long Run
Appendix: ‘Sending Passages’ in John’s Gospel
Acknowledgments
Notes
About Forge America
عن المؤلف
Ed Stetzer, Ph D, is the dean of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University and scholar in residence and teaching pastor at Mariners Church. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches; trained pastors and church planters on six continents; earned two master’s degrees and two doctorates; and he has written hundreds of articles and a dozen books. He is regional director for Lausanne North America, is the editor-in-chief of Outreach Magazine, and regularly writes for news outlets such as USA Today and CNN.
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