Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson, The Externally Focused Life. Group Publishing, 2009.
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LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is an adaptation of the externally focused motif, though not congregationally focused but with an angle toward personal spiritual formation and life development. The authors use an acrostic for LIFE – Love, Intersections, Fortune, Eternity – to encourage people to find lives of meaning through service to others. This could be a good follow up to the congregational series, helping people who participate in externally focused ministries through their congregations to translate the same principles into everyday life.
About the Authors
Rick Rusaw is the senior pastor at LifeBridge Christian Church and an innovative leader, speaker, author, and trainer. With Eric he is the cofounder of the Externally Focused Network.
Eric Swanson is a missional leadership specialist with Leadership Network, leading initiatives with externally focused churches that are missionally engaging their communities, cities, and the world. With Rick Rusaw he is the cofounder of the Externally Focused Network.
Eric Swanson and Rick Rusaw are coauthors of The Externally Focused Church and The Externally Focused Life. They frequently speak and train at seminars and conferences on missional/externally focused churches.
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- Social Ministry, Introduction
- Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Social Ministry
- Spirituality for Ministry of Social Compassion and Justice
- Strategies For Christian Social Ministry
- Perspectives and Strategies For Social Ministry Among the Urban Poor, Urban Ministry
- Christian Perspectives on Political Theory and Church-State Relations
- Christian Perspectives on Economics and Public Policy
- Evangelism