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In this post-Christian era, the focus of the North American church centers on the maintenance of the institution rather than on Gods mission. In this timely volume, six missiologists examine the churchs loss of dominance in todays culture. Presenting a biblically based theology, they challenge the church to recover its missional vocation---here in North America.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Will use it as a required text in a course I'll be teaching,
By Leon de Huanuco (Huanuco, Peru) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Paperback)
Guder does an outstanding job of editing this text.The writers present a quality summary of today's American spiritual culture as well as justification for returning the church back to its apostolic (i.e. sent) roots. The mission of God is so well presented in this book that I'm going to use it as a required text in the evangelism/mission course that I'm teaching this fall at a Christian/Lutheran university.
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This review is from: Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Paperback)
This book should be a must read by anyone who wants to have God's desire for the Christian church. It offers a very good understanding of the North American culture and offers a relevant understanding of our culture. The only thing that I wish they would have done, is offer some possible ways to do this and ways that its being done. However, that is not their desire of this book from what I understand. They just simply want to highlight the areas that the modern church is struggling with and what the modern church is called to be and the book does that in superb way. One of the top 5 books that I have ever read.
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A good introduction to missional theology.,
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This review is from: Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Paperback)
This is one of the better books currently available introducing church leaders, pastors and lay ministers to ecclesiology from a missional perspective. Guder and his fellow writers do a worthy job of synthesizing contemporary perspectives on church in post-Christian North America. Especially engaging is the way that the writers articulate the distinctive claims a Canadian culture (as opposed to an United States culture) will make on a missional church. There are valuable lessons here for pastors seeking to become more adept in cultural discernment. What is lacking in this book are concrete examples of what a missional church "looks like" in ways different than what one finds in Christendom. One hopes that this is an absence that will be addressed in the next four volumes. In short, check out this book as a synthesis of ecclesiology from a post-liberal perspective (a la Hauerwas, Yoder, Brueggemann). Also, a note for pastors: Chapter 7, "Missional Leadership: Equipping God's People for Mission," is worth the price of the book.
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