Ministry in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society

Contents

About the Author

5

Preface

7

Session 1

11

Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest Training Cross-Cultural Ministers

1

Session 2

27

Theological Foundations for Ministry in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society The Story of God Session 3 The Ground of Certainty for Ministry in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society Jesus Christ as Lord of the Harvest

2

47

3

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Session 4

Culture, Religion, and Diversity in Post-Modern Society The Difference That Difference Makes Session 5

4

85

Drafting a Biblical Ecclesiology in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society The Church and the World Session 6 Evangelism and Follow-up in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society To the Ends of the Earth

5

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6

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Session 7 What’s All the Hubbub about the Great Tradition? Church Matters and Going Back to the Future

7

133

Session 8

Shared Spirituality and Church Planting Movements Reproducing to the Fourth Generation

8

149

Session 9

Equipping Disciples in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society Creedal Theology as Blueprint for Discipleship and Leadership

9

Appendix

165

Bibliography

317

About Us

319