Darrell Guder, The Incarnation and the Church’s Witness. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2005. Referenced in: Theology of Mission LifeandLeadership.com Summary Guder elevates the incarnation as the most helpful model for the church as it conceives of its mission. This excerpt expresses his thesis: “By incarnational mission I mean the understanding and practice of Christian witness
Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger, Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. Baker Academic, 2005. Sequel: Bolger, The Gospel After Christendom Referenced in: Missional Communities LifeandLeadership.com Summary Many regard this is the most complete description of the emerging church. It is a result of extensive research on a group of carefully selected missional/emergent
Roger Helland and Leonard Hjalmarson, Missional Spirituality: Embodying God’s Love From the Inside Out (Shapevine Series). IVP Books, 2011. Referenced in: Missional Spirituality LifeandLeadership.com Summary The authors content that the need is not to disdain the organized church and other attempts at missional, or to execute more leadership development or church growth, but to recover
Reggie McNeal, Missional Communities: The Rise of the Post-Congregational Church (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series). Jossey-Bass, 2011. Prequels: McNeal, The Present Future McNeal, Missional Renaissance Referenced in: Missional Communities LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the third of a series on the missional movement by Reggie McNeal, following The Present Future and Missional Renaissance. Here, McNeal describes various
Steve Rundle and Tom Steffen, Great Commission Companies: The Emerging Role of Business in Missions, Revised Edition. IVP Academic, 2011. Referenced in: Missional Spirituality of Business LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is just one of several books representing the Business as Mission (BAM) movement, but is regarded as foundational articulation. The authors are leading academics in that
Andy Crouch, Culture-Making: Recovering our Creative Calling. InterVarsity Press, 2008. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Spirituality and Life Calling LifeandLeadership.com Summary In the introduction, Crouch states his purpose is to “offer us a new vocabulary, a new story and a new set of questions.” In terms of vocabulary, Crouch says the ways we
Gene Edward Veith, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life. Crossway Books, 2011. Referenced in: Missional Spirituality, Discipleship – Missional Spirituality of Work LifeandLeadership.com Summary This excellent theology of work is a good companion to Witherington, Work: A Kingdom Perspective. Veith is a very down-to-earth, practical theology. By his own admission, Veith
Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve Common Good. Brazos Press, 2011. Referenced in: Evangelism in Contemporary Culture – Special Challenges LifeandLeadership.com Summary Witherington offers a strongly biblical and practical theology of work. From the Publisher Most Christians spend most of their waking hours working, yet many regard work as at
Miroslav Volf, Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work. Wipf and Stock, 2001. Referenced in: Missional Spirituality, Discipleship – Missional Spirituality of Work LifeandLeadership.com Summary Most Christian theologies of work are rooted in what is often called the “Great Creation” (Gen. 1:28), i.e. that we are placed here to steward the earth God
Darrell Cosden, A Theology of Work. Wipf and Stock, 2006. Sequel: Cosden, The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work Referenced in: Missional Spirituality, Discipleship – Missional Spirituality of Work LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the scholarly monograph behind the popular-level work by Cosden, The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work. From the Publisher Given that so much of
