Why Unity in Christ's Mission Is Vital to the Future of the Church
By: John H. Armstrong Format: Hardcover, Printed |
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Synopsis: In Your Church Is Too Small, John Armstrong presents a vision of the unity possible for Christians across social, cultural, racial, and denominational lines. When Jesus’ followers seek unity through participation in the kingdom of God and the mission of Christ, they demonstrate God’s character to a watching world.
Click for product description and detailsISBN: 031032114X, ISBN-13: 9780310321149, UPC: 025986321147
Features: Index Included, Discussion/Study Questions included
Suggested Uses: Lead & TeachAges: Adult
Related Product Types: Church Life & Ministry
Endorsements for Your Church Is Too Small:“Every once in a while I read a book I wish every Christian I know would read. This is that kind of book. Your Church is too Small is clear, prophetic, practical… and true. If you pray for reformation, renewal and revival in America and the world (and I do daily) this book is the place to put legs on those prayers. You will be shocked, irritated and stirred deeply… and then you’ll rise up and call John Armstrong blessed for having had the courage and call to write it and for me for having the wisdom to commend it to you.” —
Steve Brown, President and teacher, Key Life Network, Inc “If the late Lesslie Newbigin could offer today’s Church an exhortation—a reminder from the past, an assessment of the present, and encouragement for the future—what would the old Bishop say? In what he terms “missional ecumenism,” John Armstrong proposes an answer that confronts readers with the universal shape of Christian identity.” —
Chris Castaldo, author, Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as a Former Catholic “The Apostle Paul wrote that "maintaining the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" among the followers of Jesus Christ is "hard work" (Eph. 4:3). Few people know that better than John Armstrong. In a day when everything about the contemporary Church militates against oneness, John Armstrong is struggling to break down the walls we've built up so that the world can see Jesus in all His variegated richness, in the fullness of the one Body of Christ. Your Church is Too Small provides the blueprints and marching orders for a new generation of Church-builders (capital C) from among those who are building local churches in all the communions of the Body of Christ.” —
T.M. Moore, Dean of the Centurions, Prison Fellowship More Endorsements
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In Your Church Is Too Small, John Armstrong presents a vision of the unity possible for Christians across social, cultural, racial, and denominational lines. When Jesus’ followers seek unity through participation in the kingdom of God and the mission of Christ, they demonstrate God’s character to a watching world.
Description: “I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” Too often, these words of Jesus from John 17:20-21 seem like an unreachable ideal. But in Your Church Is Too Small, John Armstrong shows that Jesus’ vision of Christian unity is for all God’s people across social, cultural, racial, and denominational lines. “With attention to his own pilgrimage and growth in ecclesial awareness, John Armstrong explores here the evangelical heart and ecumenical breadth of churchly Christianity.
I am encouraged by his explorations and commend this study to all believers who pray and labor for the unity for which our Savior prayed.” – Timothy George, senior editor, Christianity Today. “Dr. Armstrong’s irenic approach should make it easy for Christians—whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant—to engage the challenging thesis of the book, while recognizing that there remain points of doctrine between them which will require further clarification.
Anyone concerned about either evangelism or Christian unity should read this book, and take seriously its call for both mission and ecumenism.” – Fr. Thomas A. Baima, Provost, University of Saint Mary of the Lake John Armstrong is one of those Evangelical theologians—may their tribe increase and the valley abound with their tents—who know that full obedience to Christ embraces the historical transmission through which we know him. This book refuses to scale down the bearer of that tradition—the historical church, that is—or reduce the authority of its voice. – Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, senior editor, Touchstone
“It's a must for anyone who has grown weary with Christian divisiveness and schism and longs to discover ways of strengthening the bonds that unite us in the Spirit of Christ.” – Chuck Colson
Book & Bible Cover Size: MediumPage Count: 224
Paper Edge Description: Plain
Size: 5.7 wide x 8.8 high x 0.8 deep in. | 145 wide x 223 high x deep 20 mm
Weight: 0.805 lb | 364 gms
Available: March 2010
WorldPublisher: Zondervan
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