The Missional Church in Context: Helping Congregations Develop Contextual Ministry

by Van Gelder, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780802845672
• ISBN10: 0802845673
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-26
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The missional church conversation continues to make a vital contribution to thinking about congregations and their contexts, addressing the essential question What does it really mean to be church? This book offers substantial, clarifying insights into that ongoing dialogue. Contributors: Mark Lau Branson James Tzu-Kao Chai Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier Terri Martinson Elton Scott Frederickson Joon Ho Lee Gary M. Simpson Craig Van Gelder

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Engaging the Missional Church Conversation	p. 1
Introduction	p. 9
How Missiology Can Help Inform the Conversation about the Missional Church in Context	p. 12
The Missional Congregation in Context	p. 44
A Reformation Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: A Promising Theology for an Emerging Missional Church	p. 65
Ecclesiology and Leadership for the Missional Church	p. 94
Introduction	p. 127
Corps of Discovery: A Twenty-First-Century Contextual Missiology for the Denominational Church in the United States	p. 130
The Possibility of Transforming the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (GAPCK) into a Missional Church	p. 161
An Old New Church in the Marketplace: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) into the Twenty-First Century	p. 189
A Contextual Missiology for the Southern Baptist Church in Taiwan: Reviewing the Past and Envisioning the Future	p. 219
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