Making New Disciples

Mark Ireland

• Verlag: SPCK Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780281073375
• Thema: Teologia e religione
• Thema: Ministro del culto cristiano

Twelve years on from their first book, Evangelism: Which way now? (CHP, 2003, 2nd edition 2005), which has become a valuable and oft recommended resource, Mark Ireland and Mike Booker aim to take people a step further. Making New Disciples offers a practical approach, based on careful theological reflection and years of hands-on experience in local church leadership, theological education and the national church. The book is not so much a Which? guide to the available resources, as a wrestling with the paradoxes of evangelism in a changing world, backed up with plenty of stories and specific examples.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover page
• About the authors
• Title page
• Imprint
• Table of contents
• List of figures and tables
• Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Acknowledgements
• 1. The challenge of making new disciples
• 2. The priority: growing the Church or growing people?
• 3. Strategy or spontaneity?
• 4. Jesus requests the pleasure . . .
• 5. God’s work or ours? Praying for new disciples and spiritual growth
• 6. Alpha revisited
• 7. Courses: shorter spans, longer bridges?
• 8. Fresh expressions: the way to the future?
• 9. Messy Church: Messy enough? Church enough?
• 10. Parish: mature or stale?
• 11. Good news: the hidden growth of the common good
• 12. Church-shaped disciples, or disciple-shaped Church?
• 13. Back to the future?
• Notes
• Bibliography