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Missional
Church Resources
Articles
Missional
Mapmaking by Alan Roxburgh
Introduction
Chapter one
Chapter two
Chapter
three
Chapter
four
Chapter five
Understanding
Missional Church: An Introductory Workshop (by Allelon)
Presenter's
Guide
Participant's
Guide
What
is the Missional Church - A Brief Introduction by Bill Reinhold,
Presbytery of Philadelphia
What
is a Missional Church: A Continuing Conversation
by Alan Roxburgh
How
Missional is Your Church? Keeping the Global in Missional
Marks
of a Missional Church
Missional
Church: Frequently Asked Questions
Eight
Patterns of Missional Faithfulness
Empirical
Indicators of a Missional Church
The
Missional Church
Being
Missional and Being Baptist by Daniel Vestal
A
New Imagination for the Church
Videos
A
WiMC? Alan Roxburgh Interview with Ryan Bolger
A
WiMC? Alan
Roxburgh Interview with Eddie Gibbs
A
WiMC? Alan
Roxburgh Interview with Craig Van Gelder
A
WiMC? Alan
Roxburgh Interview with Pat Keifert
Biblical
Seminary's Dr. John Franke on Missional Church
(accompanying discussion guide: Entering
the Missional Conversation)
Being the Missional
Church (Michael Frost)
Growing
Missional Leaders, Part One (from Allelon)
Growing
Missional Leaders, Part Two (from Allelon)
Websites
http://www.cbfdestinations.info/
http://www.allelon.org
http://www.churchinnovations.org
http://www.missionalchurch.org
Books
The Missional Journey: Being the Presence of Christ Journal
(Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, 2003)
Begin the missional journey - find what
God would have you do in your community and throughout the world. The
Missional Journey: Being the Presence of Christ is a 32-page
information booklet, journal and CD-ROM that will help you and your
church begin the missional journey. It includes stories from the New
Testament Church, missional examples, and suggested resources and
processes for focusing a church on its mission. A free VHS version of
the CD-ROM is also available.
Destinations:
A Resource for Church Planning
(Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, 2007)
New in 2007, this resource helps
churches discern, as a community, their "destination" and map
out ways to reach it together. Includes Web aides, suggestions for books
and other resources, ideas for ministry events and discussion guides.
Klesis:
God's Call and the Journey of Faith by Kathy Dobbins, Colin Harris and Doris Nelms (Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship, 2005)
The call of God is extended to every
person; first to become a believer in Jesus, then to become his presence
in the world. Klesis: God's Call and the Journey of Faith was
written to help Christians more carefully consider how God might be
calling them to be the presence of Christ in their world. More than a
spiritual gifts study, Klesis leads participants to a more holistic
consideration of their unique call.
Kicking Habits: Welcome Relief for Addicted Churches
by Thomas
G. Bandy (Abingdon, 2001)
Kicking Habits shows congregations how to overcome the destructive
attitudes and systems that prevent them from focusing on their true
mission: making disciples of Jesus Christ. Drawing on the stories of
exciting new congregations that have arisen within the last few years, he
sharpens his portrayal of the thriving church system, demonstrating its
essential concern for savvy awareness of the larger culture and fidelity
to the core of the gospel.
The Ministry of the Missional Church: A Community Led by the Spirit by
Craig Van Gelder (Baker, 2007)
Following his critically acclaimed The
Essence of the Church, Luther Seminary professor Van Gelder examines
the work of the Holy Spirit throughout the history of
Christianity---rather than focusing on man-made strategies and techniques
for success. Rediscover the true mission of the church and how it can
change your community and the world!
The Missional
Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World by Alan
Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk (Jossey-Bass, 2006)
Missional churches are less focused on
programs for members and more on outreach to those who don't have a church
home. The authors introduce a variety of ways to change people's mindsets
and clergy leadership styles, so that an environment is created where
mission can flourish.
Transforming
Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders
by Charles Olson (Alban,
1995.)
Olsen presents a bold vision of
leadership—one that offers church board work as an integral part of
congregational leaders’ faith experience and development. Board or
council members’ faith is engaged and informs the way they conduct the
church’s business. Discover inspiring, practical ways your board can
make its meetings become opportunities for deepening faith, developing
leadership, and ultimately renewing your church.
Missional
Church : A Vision for the Sending of the Church in
North America
. by Darrell
L. Guder (Eerdmans, 1998)
In this post-Christian era, the focus
of the North American church centers on the maintenance of the institution
rather than on God's mission. In this timely volume, six missiologists
examine the church's loss of dominance in today's culture. Presenting a
biblically based theology, they challenge the church to recover its
missional vocation---here in
North America
The Continuing
Conversion of the Church. by Darrell L. Guder. (Eerdmans, 2000)
Asserting that Western society is now
"a very different, very difficult mission field," Guder charts
the church's historical shift away from evangelism, examines cultural
barriers to evangelical ministry, and presents a missional theology for
contemporary believers. His practical insights are sure to spark lively
discussion among those who take the Great Commission seriously.
The Essence of
the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit.
by Craig Van Gelder (Baker Books, 2000)
What is the church, at its core?
Ideally, beneath the cultural trappings, it is a community of people
governed by the Word and taught by the Spirit. Building on this
foundation, Van Gelder draws on Scripture, sociology, and history to
rethink contemporary church structure, with an eye toward keeping it on
course for the 21st century.
Transforming
Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission
by David
Jacobus Bosch (Orbis Books, 1991)
One of our generation's most
significant works! Presenting the entire range of theological viewpoints
from evangelical to mainline, conservative to radical, Orthodox to Roman
Catholic, it incisively divides all mission history into a successive
series of paradigm shifts. Mind-stretching insights.
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending Church in
North America
, A Study Guide by Inagrace Dietterich (Center for
Parish Development, 1999)
This
guide allows church leaders to interact with the “
Missional
Church
” vision as it identifies key concepts, provides questions and suggests
ways to integrate the ideas; it should be used with groups to facilitate
thinking, dreaming and planning.
It's Time: An Urgent Call to Christian Mission
by Daniel Vestal (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, 2002)
Daniel
Vestal calls us to a renewed vision for missions that is grounded in the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, nurtured in the family of faith, and empowered by
the Spirit in a life of service and devotion.
Making
Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations about God,
Community, and Culture. by
Spencer Burke & Colleen Pepper. (
Zondervan, 2003)
Our culture is rapidly
changing and people are searching for new models and paradigms to find
meaning in their lives. As in all transitional periods, this search
takes place in grass-roots conversations where the "new" is
taking form. This book is a snapshot of this "community
conversation" as it tries to make sense of God in the emerging
worldview. It represents a gathering of individuals with different
points of view, theologies, life contexts, and feelings.
Unfreezing
Moves: Following Jesus into the Mission Field by William Easum (Abingdon,
2002)
At
the dawn of the third millennium two kinds of churches fill the Western
landscape: stuck and unstuck. Most Protestant congregations are stuck in
the muck and mire of their institutions with little or no movement
toward joining Jesus on the mission field. To these
"Controllers," faithfulness means supporting their church and
keeping it open. For churches to be faithful to their God-given mission,
they need Dreamers who are freed from their slavery to their
institutions, freed to live for others on the mission field, and
emancipated to function in a constantly changing world. The same can be
said for denominations. This book focuses on how to place
disciple-making at the core of a church's identity. He describes four
spheres of congregational culture, and he shows how the Dreams can thaw
their congregation by using Nine Unfreezing Moves that will unstick any
church.
The
Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and
Mission
for the 21st Century Church by Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch (Peabody
,
MA
, 2003)
Michael
Frost and Alan Hirsch explore why the Church needs to recalibrate
itself, rebuilding itself from the roots up. The case is built around
real-life stories gathered from innovative missional projects from the
United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and England. These
spirited experiments of Gospel community serve to point out just how
varied a genuinely incarnational approach to mission can, and indeed
needs to, become. They present vital nodes of missional learning for the
established Church as it seeks to orientate itself to the unique
challenges of the twenty-first century
LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture by Eddie
Gibbs (InterVarsity Press, 2005)
Christian
leaders struggle not only to acquire new skills and insights but also to
unlearn what they already know. As both the church and the world change,
Christian leaders and their very notions of leadership must change as
well. Veteran church growth expert Eddie Gibbs maps out how Christian
leadership must change in light of new global realities. Styles of
leadership are changing from hierarchies to networks and from
compartmentalization to connectivity. Gibbs assesses the dynamics of
leadership teams, identifies healthy leadership traits, and looks to how
new leaders are identified and developed.
Traveling
Together: A Guide for Disciple-forming Congregations
by Jeffrey D. Jones (Alban, 2006)
Many
church leaders feel—at least on some level—that virtually all the
old answers about what it means to be and do church don’t work
anymore. Author Jeffrey D. Jones believes that if the old answers
don’t work any more it is because the world in which they had worked
is no more. A new world has dawned and new answers are urgently needed.
A Generous Orthodoxy
by Brian D. McLaren (Zondervan, 2004)
Whether
you find yourself inside, outside, or somewhere on the fray of
Christianity, A Generous Orthodoxy draws you toward a way of living that
looks beyond the 'us/them' paradigm to the blessed and ancient paradox
of 'we.'
The
Gospel in a Pluralist Society.
by Lesslie Newbigin (Eerdmans, 1989)
How
does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian
message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity,
and cultural relativism? Should Christians encountering today's
pluralist society concentrate on evangelism or on dialogue? How does the
prevailing climate of opinion affect, perhaps infect, Christians'
faith? A highly respected Christian leader and ecumenical figure,
Newbigin provides a brilliant analysis of contemporary (secular,
humanist, pluralist) culture and suggests how christians can more
confidently affirm their faith in such a context.
Breaking
the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community.
by Ed Stetzer & David Putnam (Broadman & Holman, 2006)
A
call for churches in the United States to act among their communities as
missionaries would in a foreign land. For the message of Jesus Christ is
still foreign to many who stand in the shadows of American steeples. As
our approach to outreach changes, so can countless lives in our own
backyards.
Mission
in the Gospels
by Geoffrey R. Harris (Epworth Press, 2004)
The
Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative by Christopher
J. H. Wright (InterVarsity, 2006)
Wright
formulates a missional hermeneutic of the Bible, an interpretive
perspective that is in tune with a missional theme found in the Old and
New Testaments.
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