Christianity Outside The Box

Author : Nigel Scotland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610973607
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity Outside the Box written by Nigel Scotland and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major aspect of the history of Christian missions is the way groups who have jumped the ecclesiastical ship have renewed and recalled their parent bodies back to biblical roots and a biblical vision. This book examines fourteen such vibrant Christian movements which operated outside the box. Each chapter ends with a practical section highlighting those factors that made the particular group successful. They were all missional movements that pursued a Christian vision and developed structures to facilitate it. In contrast, the traditional organizations from which they emerged tended to do mission from an established, given structure. Here are seriously committed movements that offer a dynamic challenge to our contemporary churches.

Author : Richard Harries
Publisher : SPCK Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780281055227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Outside the Box written by Richard Harries and published by SPCK Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Church a box from which God has escaped? Are people finding spirituality and relating to God in ways that have nothing to do with the Church? Men and women today have strong values and beliefs about caring for animals and for the creation, about tolerance for others of different beliefs and customs, and about how we each may live mature and fulfilled lives. They often feel that the Church's moral teaching does not come up to their standards. Objections to the traditional Christian view of God and religion include: Christianity focuses on sin and guilt: God's an egomaniac - he's designed the world solely for his praise: God sentences people to everlasting punishment: religion keeps people immature: religion is stuck in the past: religion is divisive: the belief in a wise and loving creator is not compatible with the suffering and agony evident in the world. In 'God Outside the Box', Richard Harries takes seriously thoughts and criticisms such as these and answers them in detail. "Bishop Harries believes that "Christianity has within its treasure store enormous spiritual riches". His book has certainly helped to display some of those riches which modern society desperately needs." The Tablet.

Author : Crea A. Copeland
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1591604265
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity Outside the Box written by Crea A. Copeland and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Scotland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621898997
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity Outside the Box written by Nigel Scotland and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major aspect of the history of Christian missions is the way groups who have jumped the ecclesiastical ship have renewed and recalled their parent bodies back to biblical roots and a biblical vision. This book examines fourteen such vibrant Christian movements which operated outside the box. Each chapter ends with a practical section highlighting those factors that made the particular group successful. They were all missional movements that pursued a Christian vision and developed structures to facilitate it. In contrast, the traditional organizations from which they emerged tended to do mission from an established, given structure. Here are seriously committed movements that offer a dynamic challenge to our contemporary churches.

Author : A. King
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 153206165X
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Tripped over Myself & Came up Saved / Christianity Outside the Box written by A. King and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about being locked in a love affair between two human beings - one a follower the address driving to win the heavyweight championship of the boxing world. Lynn spend her day shopping Champ, along with long-time manager Mr. Malcolm Buzzy Johnson, we’re out promoting the fight. News break - a car accident! Manager Bugsy died on the scene. Champ was airlifted by helicopter to trauma center. No fight, and all bets were off. Lynn found herself with no place to go and no one to talk to. What to do? Through trials of life she finds Christ.

Author : Rick Richardson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830875122
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evangelism Outside the Box written by Rick Richardson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-10-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It used to be that providing clear evidence for the resurrection of Jesus or the reliability of the Bible was a pretty effective way to reach people with the Good News. But today, many folks think all truth is relative, even our historical and scientific data about Christianity. So how can we reach them? We need new ways of telling people the old, old story. We need to look again at our usual mental habits if we want to reach people who have a brand new mindset of their own. We need to get outside the box of ideas and practices that are sacred to us but are not sacred to God. That's what Rick Richardson's book is all about. Here are fresh perspectives on relying on the Holy Spirit, awakening spiritual interest in others, appealing to what they value (instead of what we think they should value) and leading them into a transforming experience with God. Also included is Richardson's Circles of Belonging, a new, straightforward presentation of the message of Jesus (yes, it can even be sketched out on a napkin!) that is true to Scripture and true to the new way people live and think. As an experienced evangelist and leader of evangelism programs, Richardson offers in this helpful book the principles and practices that will help us all grow in love for--and communicate effectively with--people who need Jesus.

Author : Andrew Zirschky
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1501823906
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Outside the Box written by Andrew Zirschky and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than tweaking the ways youth ministers communicate the gospel, Teaching Outside the Box, explores five distinct approaches to forming youth in the faith—approaches that open youth to experiencing the implications of the gospel in new ways. We’ll start by providing a new take on the instructional approach, and then introduce four additional approaches that are likely new to readers: community of faith, interpretive, liberation, and contemplative.

Author : Anne Robertson
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780819221780
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blowing the Lid Off the God-Box written by Anne Robertson and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's in your God-box? Each of us, says author Anne Robertson, builds our own way of understanding God-our God-box-- and fills it up with bits of scripture, wisdom, and our experiences of God at work in our lives. It's a perfectly good way to puzzle out what God means to us. Encountering God through our human limitations, we learn something about the meaning of Incarnation. But to say that our experience of God is the only valid one is to put a lid on the box and create an idol. This book is about examining our God-boxes and bursting them wide open. Blowing the Lid Off the God-Box starts with the ministry of Jesus - who blew the lid off everyone's God-box by constantly challenging his followers with the unexpected. Subsequent chapters examine the God-boxes we create with scripture, worship, and political and social agendas.

Author : Richard Harries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007132966
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Outside the Box written by Richard Harries and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Townsend
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846943264
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus Outside the Box written by Mark Townsend and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Outside the Box is a re-released, re-titled version of the author's previous book The Magician's Tale. It a short book of twelve incredible stories written from the perspective of some of the lesser known characters of the New Testament. Each story offers an exciting and radical new portrait of the one we call The Christ. The author's intention was to present a picture of Jesus, without the 2,000 of Christian doctrine and dogma that have put him some great ecclesiastical box (and suffocated him the process). The Jesus of these tales has broken free from that box of Churchianity and will help readers do the same. This Jesus is human yet magical, gentle yet dangerous, distrustful of religion, yet unconditionally loving. He is exciting beyond our dreams. You may just discover that you'd thrown the divine baby out with the holy water.