Faithful Presence - Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

Fitch, David E.

Inter-Varsity Press,US（2016/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 231 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780830841271
• DDC分類 262.7

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Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016

In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again: Is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation but by becoming the good news in our culture?
In Faithful Presence, noted pastor and scholar David Fitch offers a new vision for the witness of the church in the world. He argues that we have lost the intent and practice of the sacramental ways of the historic church, and he recovers seven disciplines that have been with us since the birth of the church. Through numerous examples and stories, he demonstrates how these revolutionary disciplines can help the church take shape in and among our neighborhoods, transform our way of life in the world, and advance the kingdom.
This book will help you re-envision church, what you do in the name of church, and the way you lead a church. It recovers a future for the church that takes us beyond Christendom. Embrace the call to reimagine the church as the living embodiment of Christ, dwelling in and reflecting God's faithful presence to a world that desperately needs more of it.

Contents

Introduction: Searching for the Real Church



Part I: God's Faithful Presence


1. God's Faithful Presence

2. To Change the World



Part II: The Seven Disciplines


3. The Discipline of the Lord's Table

4. The Discipline of Reconciliation

5. The Discipline of Proclaiming the Gospel

6. The Discipline of Being with the "Least of These"

7. The Discipline of Being with Children

8. The Discipline of the Fivefold Gifting

9. The Discipline of Kingdom Prayer



Epilogue: How God Changes the World

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1: What Formation Looks Like Around the Table

Appendix 2: The Indispensible Role of the Dotted Circle in the Disciplines

Appendix 3: Extending the Presence: An Alternative Basis for Ecclesiology and Mission

Appendix 4: Where Is the Church? A Closer Look at Matthew 25

Appendix 5: A Simple History of the Disciplines from New Testament Church to Christendom

Notes