On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times write by Joe R. Jones. This book was released on 2005-08-22. On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays, sermons, and prayers urges the church today to be the sort of community that sustains a vigorous and continuing conversation within itself as to who has called it into being, to whom it is responsible, and what it is called to be and to do. Jones reminds the church that it is an alternative political community called into being by the Gospel. This collection explores what it means to be such an alternative community in tumultuous times, in times when it is tempting to look to the world for answers, and to confuse loyalty to the nation-state with loyalty to God. A theme throughout all the writings is that the church is the necessary context for becoming and being a Christian.
Be Not Troubled
Be Not Troubled - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Be Not Troubled write by Ronald A. Rasband. This book was released on 2020-11-30. Be Not Troubled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Following Jesus in Turbulent Times
Following Jesus in Turbulent Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Following Jesus in Turbulent Times write by Hikmat Kashouh. This book was released on 2018-10-31. Following Jesus in Turbulent Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nations are haemorrhaging refugees around the world. How displaced peoples are treated is under constant scrutiny– whether in the UK, the USA, and Australia, or Turkey, Colombia, and Uganda. How will the Church respond in these turbulent times? Resurrection Church Beirut in Lebanon was a small church of around one hundred people who then welcomed refugees from Middle Eastern countries, sacrificially served those in need in their community and saw the kingdom of God come. Through Pastor Hikmat’s leadership over the last decade, Resurrection Church has grown to over two thousand believers and the emphasis he brought on disciple-making has resulted in the church currently having two hundred and seventy life groups. Using his church’s powerful testimony, Pastor Hikmat Kashouh teaches us how to disciple refugees from Arab contexts. Jesus is drawing more and more people to himself in the Middle East through the ministry of churches like Resurrection Church in Lebanon, and through miraculous divine visitations of God. In this book the church has a resource to help love, serve and disciple refugees, equip emerging indigenous leaders and understand discipleship of people from non-Christian backgrounds.
On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times
On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times write by Joe R. Jones. This book was released on 2005-08-22. On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Description: This collection of essays, sermons, and prayers urges the church today to "be the sort of community that sustains a vigorous and continuing conversation within itself as to who has called it into being, to whom it is responsible, and what it is called to be and to do." Jones reminds the church that it is an alternative political community called into being by the Gospel. This collection explores what it means to be such an alternative community in "tumultuous times," in times when it is tempting to look to the world for answers, and to confuse loyalty to the nation-state with loyalty to God. A theme throughout all the writings is that "the church is the necessary context for becoming and being a Christian." Endorsements: "Joe Jones is the best unknown theologian in America. That he is unknown has nothing to do with the quality of his work, but rather with the integrity by which he works. He has never hurried but ra ther has attended to the difficulty of theological speech patiently, taking the time to attend to how to say things rightly. His great two-volume systematic theology, A Grammar of Christian Faith, is here complemented by wonderful essays in theology as well as timely interventions dealing with the current cultural challenges before the church. We are all richer for the work done in this book and in particular that Jones has given us sermons and prayers. One of the remarkable things about the book is the interrelation that Jones helps us to discover just to the extent we see good theology is prayer and prayer is theology. I heartily recommend this book." --Stanley Hauerwas author of Disrupting Time "With his provocative and challenging use of subjects, ideas, and language, Jones passionately serves the church as he dares her to be true to her call as the Body of Christ on earth. Throughout all his work, Jones consistently asks one question: Will the Body live the Gospel call of faithfulness to Christ for the benefit of the world and the glory of God? In this time of doctrinal battles, identity confusion, and cultural fragmentation, Jones's question and his responses are most timely and critical for all Christians--clergy and laity--everywhere." --Rev. Janet Hoover Emerson Avenue Baptist Church "These essays and sermons underscore what was already obvious in Jones's earlier systematic theology: this is a brilliant theologian. But more than that, they evidence a theologian willing to take risks, willing to engage the most contentious issues of the day. This is theology that is relevant without being trendy, prophetic while being compassionately connected to real, everyday life. What a wonderful feast of theological reflection!" --Mark Thiessen Nation, Eastern Mennonite Seminary "Jones's A Grammar of Christian Faith: Systematic Explorations in Christian Life and Doctrine is one of the most interesting and important systematic theologies in print today. It is a must read. Now with this publication we have both the rich background for that systematic theology as well as a stand-alone volume on ecclesiology. He offers us a refreshing theological alternative. On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times does not sidestep the difficult and perilous situation of the church today, but neither is it alarmist. Jones offers us insightful theological analysis that will be of tremendous use for the church and the academy." --Steve Long Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary The brilliant clarity, profound insight, and passion of Joe Jones' classroom teaching has led many mainstream Protestant seminarians to adopt an explicitly Trinitarian Christ-centered theology. The publication in 2002 of his 'The Grammar of Christian Faith and Doctrine' extended Jones' influence beyond his stud
A Lover’s Quarrel
A Lover’s Quarrel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Lover’s Quarrel write by Joe R. Jones. This book was released on 2014-01-07. A Lover’s Quarrel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joe Jones, a retired and well-known systematic theologian, confesses he has a lover's quarrel with the church. In wide-ranging writings mostly dating since 2006, he forthrightly argues for a theologically sound understanding of the church. And he pursues a multi-faceted critique of the feckless ways in which actual churches--ministers and laity--balk and betray their rightful calling to witness in word and deed to God. He is especially critical of the practical ways in which congregations become no more than mirror images of their sociopolitical milieu, whether to the right or to the left. Hence the quarrel, trenchantly pursued in major essays, blogs, and spiritual reflections on his own past. But it remains crystal clear to Jones in his learned and profound confession that it is his beloved church with which he quarrels and about which he still has extravagant hopes. A Lover's Quarrel is a book appropriate for ministers and laity, students and professors, and learned skeptics.
