How Followers of Jesus Engage a Flat World
By: Bob Roberts Jr. Format: Hardcover, Jacketed |
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Synopsis: A new world that’s both global and local—glocal—is being born. What does this look like for believers and the church? How can we adapt to this new world? Glocalization offers an intriguing look at the future of Christianity and how individuals and churches can connect to the future.
Click for product description and detailsISBN: 0310267188, ISBN-13: 9780310267188, UPC: 025986267186
Ages: Adult
Critical Praise for Glocalization:"In Glocalization, Roberts...outlines six practices the church should adopt to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves in the glocal world. All six are excellent, and by confronting some well-established missionary habits, a few have the potential to be revolutionary....Roberts' inspiring stories from Communist and Islamic nations reinforce his claim that no country is closed to the gospel, just to our usual methods of bringing it....Many pastors have learned ministry techniques by mimicking corporate strategies and good management. In the new flat earth, the entire church must learn to be missionaries, and this will once again require all of the Holy Spirit's gifts, comfort, counsel, power, and fruit....After reading the book, I'm inspired to take the gospel into all the world, starting in my own cul-de-sac." —
Leadership journal Endorsements for Glocalization:Bob is a wild and thoroughly compelling apostle-prophet to this generation. His words and actions remind us that the Kingdom of God transcends locality, tribe, and nationality, and that the local church can fulfill its real purpose only if it has the whole world in view and the Kingdom of God as its driving agenda. This book will go a long way to help the 21st Century church to comprehend what it really means to think global but act local as well as to act global and think local. —
Alan Hirsch, Founder and Director, Forge Mission Training Network; Author, The Shaping of Things to Come and The Forgotten Ways I’ve read every word of this amazing book – I’ve visited the Northwood Church that Bob Roberts pastors – it really is "global" –an ‘Antioch’ congregation with "fruit that remain" in abundance – both globally and locally – I commend to you my friend, the author –and urge you to read this book. It’s especially for 21st century, cutting edge, strategic, and truly visionary leaders. —
Loren Cunningham This is a gem of a book. Bob Roberts brings a missional heart and mind to an array of pressing global agendas with more imagination and with greater biblical understanding than almost anyone of his time. —
Leonard Sweet, Drew University, George Fox Evangelical Seminary, www.wikiletics.com More Endorsements
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A new world that’s both global and local—glocal—is being born. What does this look like for believers and the church? How can we adapt to this new world? Glocalization offers an intriguing look at the future of Christianity and how individuals and churches can connect to the future.
Description: If you want to know where and how the church is going to grow, think local and global. Think glocal. Glocal is Bob Roberts’ term for the seamless connectedness between the local and global. That connection is affecting the church in ways that never could have been imagined in the first-century church, or even the twentieth-century church. And it’s creating unprecedented opportunities for individuals and churches—for you and your church—to live out their faith in real time across the world. Glocalization offers a vision of the unprecedented changes of our times and how they are impacting the church. Discover how these changes will transform the way churches define their mission and how Christians relate to one another and to the world. This provocative book turns the traditional mission-agency model upside down and shows how transformed people and churches can make a glocal (global and local) impact. Glocalization offers an exciting vision for churches and individuals who want to reach this changing world for Christ.
Book & Bible Cover Size: LargePage Count: 208
Size: 6.3 wide x 9.3 high x 0.8 deep in. | 160 wide x 236 high x deep 20 mm
Weight: 0.92 lb | 416 gms
Available: February 2007
WorldPublisher: Zondervan
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