Recovering the Full Mission of God – A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing and Telling

Dean Flemming (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2013
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4026-7 (ISBN)

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Should our proclamation of the gospel be in words or deeds or both? What do the Scriptures say? New Testament scholar and missionary Dean Flemming takes a look at this disputed question. Rooted in the Old Testament and covering the Gospels, Paul, Acts, Peter and Revelation, Flemming provides a biblically sound basis for holistic evangelism.

Is our gospel witness too small? Should the gospel be proclaimed in words only? Or should we preach the gospel in deeds—and when necessary use words? Or are we missing something in playing the witness of words against deeds? If you are concerned about evangelizing the post-Christian West or the world beyond, you have probably debated this issue. And evangelical instincts drive us to Scripture.
In Recovering the Full Mission of God, Dean Flemming joins biblical scholarship with missionary experience as he surveys the Old Testament and then looks closely at the New Testament and the early church. Flemming shows how the three strands of telling, doing and being relate in the mission of God and his people.
Here is a book in touch with the missional realities of our time and grounded in the missional vision of biblical revelation. It gives us a clear vision of the rich and multifaceted nature of "gospeling" the kingdom of God.

Dean Flemming (PhD, Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament and missions at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. He has spent more than twenty years as a missionary educator in Asia and Europe and is the author of a commentary on Philippians and Contextualization in the New Testament, which won a 2006 Christianity Today book award.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A People of Blessing: Israel?s Missional Life

2. A Story to Tell to the Nations? Israel?s Witness of Word

3. Announcing and Embodying God?s Reign: The Full Mission of Jesus

4. Doer, Teacher, Savior: Portraits of Mission in the Synoptic Gospels

5. A Mission of Sending Love: Being, Doing and Telling in John?s Gospel

6. You Will Be My Witnesses: Speaking and Living the Gospel in Acts

7. Compelled by Christ?s Love: Paul?s Holistic Mission

8. Partners in the Gospel: the Missional Life of Paul?s Churches

9. Mission from the Margins: Being, Doing and Telling in 1 Peter

10. Following the Lamb: Word and Life Mission in Revelation

11. What Difference Does It Make? Concluding Reflections

For Further Reading

Subject and Author Index

Scripture Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.11.2013
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	416 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8308-4026-5 / 0830840265
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4026-7 / 9780830840267
Zustand	Neuware