Miriam Adeney
Biography
Miriam Adeney wrote Kingdom Without Borders and Daughters of Islam, and provided the foreword to Re-Imagining Short-Term Missions.
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Evangelism & Missions
“Blessing is not for wimps. Most people around the world don't expect it. Fun? Yes. Happiness? Maybe. But that full-orbed concept of blessing? That is unique to the Abrahamic faiths. Blessing comes from the omnipotent Creator who communicates personally and mercifully. Surprisingly, blessing shows up in tough places, sometimes almost at the ends of the earth. Gallagher has been there, and has brought back a report. Read it, and be blessed.”
History & Biography
“Masses of Indians worship Jesus apart from historic churches. In this nation, the second largest in the world, Christianity has been present for 2000 years. Today large "Jesus movements" pulsate. This "Fourth Branch Christianity" grows alongside Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox sectors. Particularly in communities where food and water are scarce, security is shaky, statuses are marginal, religious pluralism is complex, spiritual forces threaten, and dignity remains a distant dream, the gospel and the Spirit empower in unexpected ways. This clearly-written book, cross-referenced to indigenous movements across continents, is an invaluable resource. If you care about Christianity tomorrow, you should read it.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Paul Sungro Lee’s book shows how to do mission well, drawing on theory, international teaching experience, and extensive personal field experience. Both gospel and culture are taken seriously in this text, and passion brings it to life.”
Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities
Evangelism & Missions
“Seventy-five disciplers were interviewed for this book. These mentors have walked the road of discipleship with more than three thousand Muslim-background Arabs. This is substantial data. Yet contemporary information and strategy are only part of the research. Whole chapters bubble with Paul's and Luke's understandings of discipleship. Other chapters trace discipleship through church history and throughout the Western and Muslim worlds today. Although no fan of 'insider movements,' the author champions humble adaptation and relevant contextual communication. In particular, he wrestles with issues like the construction of identity, persecution, demonic realities, handling money and roles for expatriates. Workers in the Muslim world will find this book a stimulating dialogue partner and will learn a lot.”
Evangelism & Missions
“From living in cardboard boxes for a week to running computer schools among the poor, Randy White overflows with options for following Jesus into our cities.”
Encountering the History of Missions
History & Biography
“Between the beginning in Eden and the great party around the throne stretches a long, tumultuous story line. This book takes up where the Bible leaves off. The focus is mission, loving our neighbors in word and deed. Whether Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox, whether Gothic or Chinese or European, the narratives are straightforward and easy to understand. While some names will sound familiar, this book connects them in context, providing a momentum so that one story flows into the next until it is hard to put the book down. Not many general history books can claim that distinction.”
World Religions
“From India to Japan and all the Buddhist countries in between, thoughtful Christian scholars ponder what we share inter-religiously, what is unique about the good news that God has come close to us in Jesus, and how that can be expressed through local vocabulary, categories, concepts, and values. Each year wise men and women probe another dimension of this issue. This year the focus is karma and grace. The dialogue is absorbing and provocative for anyone who studies religion or pursues peace.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Asians are moving, putting down new roots, encountering the gospel, growing as disciples, planting immigrant churches, inventing new ministries, and reaching back to their homelands and to new fields. We cannot afford to be ignorant about Asian diaspora Christians.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Global opportunities have never been greater, and God deserves praise from all nations. How does an ordinary church maximize this? How do we manage time and money? How do we reduce risks yet take up our cross? How do we balance short- and long-term missions, witness and service, the local and the global? Here are seven practical conversations every church should have including many specific tips. Each chapter ends with an exercise to help a church evaluate and perhaps rebalance its processes. Can we afford anything less than best practices if we are going to steward our God-given resources and love our neighbors?”
Christian Living
“Riveting, fascinating, authentic, vulnerable, funny—this book grabbed me and I could not put it down. Lynda's neighbors are established, lonely, secular urbanites in a high-rise apartment building. When she prioritizes them over church connections, they become her best friends. What does it mean to love a neighbor? 'Pay attention,' she says. 'Notice. Engage. Welcome. Open your door. Accept their invitations. Give time. Laugh. Debate. Apologize. Forgive. Cry. Celebrate.' Caught up in the quirky lives of Brian and Rachel and Yolanda, we see how community can flower in sterile spaces, and urban hangouts can be sanctified. There is awkwardness and misunderstanding and swearing and sex talk and even invitations to strip clubs, but the joy of Jesus shines through.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Pain shows up on our streets, but so do parties. David Leong captures both in the street signs of his own urban neighborhood. Here, he and his family live as signs of God's grace. Street Signs invites us to twenty-first-century urban ministry with sensibility and nuance.”
Telling the Gospel Through Story
Evangelism & Missions
“We live by stories. Family stories. Celebrities' stories. Historical stories. Something happens. And then--? We stop to listen. We can't help it. The story pulls us in. Much of God's revelation is story. People act, but even before that, God acts. Christine Dillon knows the power of God's never-ending story. In this book she shows us how to tell it so as to transmit truth that will transform the listeners.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“God gave us genitals, but he didn't stop there. He made us human. What does that mean? And what is love of neighbor? What is a welcoming church? What are strengths of celibacy when supported by Christian community? Not just scholarly but also painfully and hilariously personal, this book shatters stereotypes for the sake of the kingdom.”
Evangelism & Missions
“What a holy passage it is to walk once more with our brother Paul Hiebert by means of these pages, to hear his wisdom distilled, his last word and testament to those who are trying to love God’s world in our time. Theory and practice, cultural patterns and missiological issues—there is plenty to provoke our thinking for a long time to come.”
Understanding Christian Mission
Theology
“No mere pragmatic missiology, Scott Sunquist's book is replete with theology. This book shows us that we are steeped in suffering and in glory both across time and in today's global and urban challenges. What a high calling.”
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