Kevin DeYoung and D. A. Carson (foreword), Don’t Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day (Gospel Coalition Series). Crossway, 2011. Referenced in: Generational Issues in Churches Missional Communities – Resurgent Reformed LifandLeadership.com Summary DeYoung, who is noted for his renewal of established church tradition, particularly in affirming of Christian orthodoxy. Here
Kevin DeYoung, The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism. Moody Publishers, 2010. Referenced in: Generational Issues in Churches Missional Communities – Resurgent Reformed LifeandLeadership.com Summary DeYoung, who is noted for his renewal of established church tradition, captures the same spirit in this contemporary adaptation of the 16th century
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion. Moody Publishers, 2009. Referenced in: Generational Issues in Churches Missional Communities – Resurgent Reformed LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is from the same authors who wrote, Why We’re Not Emergent…From Two Guys Who Should Be. The authors offer an alternative
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, Why We’re Not Emergent…From Two Guys Who Should Be (Moody Publishers, April 2008). Referenced in: Generational Issues in Churches Mission and Ministry in the Postmodern Ethos – Part 2, Evaluating-Emergent Missional Communities – Resurgent Reformed LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the first of several volumes by the same authors of the
John P. Chandler, Courageous Church Leadership: Conversations With Effective Practitioners (TCP Leadership Series). Chalice Press, 2007. Referenced in: Courageous Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Any part of the TCP Leadership Series is usually worth reading. The special value of this text is the author’s interviews with twelve of today’s most outstanding leaders on the courage it takes
Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Ancient-Future Series). Baker, 2008. Prequels: Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (1999) Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making Your Church a Faith-Forming Community (2003) Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (2004) Referenced in: Theology and Practice of Evangelism – Missional/Missio Dei Missional Philosophy – Recent
Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Ancient-Future Series). Baker, 2004. Prequels: Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (1999) Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making Your Church a Faith-Forming Community (2003) Sequel: Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (2008) Referenced in: Theology and Practice of Evangelism – Missional/Missio Dei Missional Philosophy –
Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Ancient-Future Series) (1999). Sequels: Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making Your Church a Faith-Forming Community (2003) Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (2004) Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (2008) Referenced in: Theology and Practice of Evangelism – Missional/Missio Dei Missional Philosophy – Recent Guides
David F. Wells, Above All Earthly Powers: Christ in a Postmodern World. Eerdmans, 2005. Referenced in: Theology of Mission, Proposals and Formulations – Missionally Responsive/Evangelical LifeandLeadership.com Summary Much of the current ministry literature seeks to appropriate the postmodern ethos. The Emergent church tends to focus on the promise of postmodernism, while those of the Evaluating-Emergent
John Piper and Justin Taylor, The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World. Crossway Books, 2007. Referenced in: Theology of Mission, Proposals and Formulations – Missionally Responsive/Evangelical LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is in a class alongside the tetralogy by David F. Wells that culminated in Above All Earthly Powers. They focus less on the promise and
