Paradigm Shifts in Christian Wwtness
Moravian Missionaries in Western Trans-Himalaya
by Dorje C Tobdan and C. Dorje
Dieser Sonderband beinhaltet die Vortraege von 26 Theologinnen und Theologen aus 12 verschiedenen Laendern, die sich zu einer einwoechigen Internationalen Sommerschule an der Universitaet Regensburg versammelten, um darueber nachzudenken, wie sich Mission und friedliche Koexistenz miteinander vereinbaren lassen. Eine zu beobachtende Zunahme nationalistischer und fundamentalistischer Stroemungen in vielen asiatischen Laendern, in denen Christen weitgehend Minderheiten darstellen, aber auch einige...
A pastor's frank advice for Christians who want to bring the gospel to their neighbors. Gold Medal Winner, 2016 Illumination Book Award in ministry/mission, Independent Publishers How can Christians represent the love of Christ to their neighbors (let alone people in foreign countries) in an age when Christianity has earned a bad name from centuries of intolerance and cultural imperialism? Is it enough to love and serve them? Can you win their trust without becoming one of them? Can you be a m...
Voices of the Faithful (Voices of the Faithful, #1)
by Beth Moore and International Mission Board
Do you have the courage...the faith...the fire? Loving the world like God does involves extreme sacrifice. Living the passionate, courageous life Jesus challenged us all to live also has radical effects, demonstrated in these 366 true accounts of fellow believers from around the world: A Christian claims the names of God at knifepoint— and lives to tell about it . . . Prayer revives a coma victim, in defiance of village witch doctors . . . A former Muslim finds forgiveness in the Jesus she d...
Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood (Studies in Christian Mission, #39)
by Ulrike Sill
Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either 'empowering' or 'domesticating' African women. Looking at variegated push-and-pull factors and in its focus on the agenc...
In the late 80s the first Vineyard churches in Europe were started in the UK. Fast forward thirty years and those churches have multiplied repeatedly across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Small groups of people have become a movement of tens of thousands of people in over one hundred and thirty locations. The values that were present in those first churches continue to run through the DNA of every Vineyard church. This book takes some of these key values and unpacks them for a new generation, w...
The Healer-Prophet in Afro-Christian Churches (Studies in Christian Mission, #3)
by Gerhardus C. Oosthuizen
The book deals with the healing ministry, especially that of the prophet, in the AIC. This office which is to be found in many of these churches as a substitute for the important office of the diviner in the traditional society. Sickness is not merely physical and mental but cultural, socio-political and economic, and is approached holistically.
