The Ministry of the Missional Church
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- World Religions
- Publisher: Baker Books (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2007
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Publisher's Description
In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose and strategies of the church are derivative dimensions, the activities that flow naturally from the church that is focused on Spirit-led ministry. The Ministry of the Missional Church leads pastors, ministry leaders, and laypersons through three simple arguments--the church is; the church does what it is; the church organizes what it does--in order to make sense of how missional churches work. And by focusing the work of the church as the work of the Triune God, this unique book will change the way readers think about the church and the world.
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Foreword
“It is from this starting point that you are led into concrete and practical ways to cultivate missional churches. This is an important book: its chapters give you the frameworks and tools to help form missional ministry within multiple contexts. It’s easy to write books that offer quick solutions for making the church work. Craig Van Gelder provides an alternative approach by helping you first to frame your world as a leader and then to develop a map for engaging in ministry, a ministry that begins with the important questions about God and moves to concrete proposals regarding the leading of the Spirit.”
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