Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for the Church’s Mission Today
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Overview
In this volume, J. D. Payne encourages the church to recover the apostolic imagination that fueled the multiplication of disciples in the first century. He calls readers to understand grand, contemporary missiological challenges and to return to the Scriptures for clarity on how the church should consider the Great Commission task.
Payne examines the contemporary practice of Western missions and argues that we need a paradigm shift. He advocates a more central place for Scripture in defining missionary language, identity, purpose, function, and strategy and encourages the church to return to an apostolic framework for global disciple making. Payne shows that an apostolic understanding of the church's disciple-making commission requires rethinking every aspect of missionary engagement. The book includes end-of-chapter discussion questions and action steps to help pastors and church leaders develop an apostolic imagination.
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- Examines the contemporary practice of Western missions
- Includes end-of-chapter discussion questions and action steps
- Explores why an apostolic understanding of the church's disciple-making commission requires rethinking every aspect of missionary engagement
Part 1: Foundations
- What Is an Apostolic Imagination?
- Challenges to the Imagination
- Apostolic Identity in the New Testament
- Apostolic Function in the New Testament
Part 2: Rethinking Contemporary Missions
- Rethinking Language
- Rethinking Identity
- Rethinking Priority
- Rethinking Function
- Rethinking Location
- Rethinking Strategy
- Rethinking the West
- Title: Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for the Church’s Mission Today
- Author: J. D. Payne
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 215
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Missions; Mission of the church; Missions › History--Early church, ca. 30-600
- ISBNs: 9781493434947, 9781540962553, 9781540965325, 9781493434923, 9781493434930, 1493434942, 1540962555, 1540965325, 1493434926, 1493434934
- Resource ID: LLS:PSTLCMGNTNMSTDY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:29:22Z
J. D. Payne (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a writer, speaker, church planter and currently serves as the pastor of church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. He previously served with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an associate professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting. J. D. has written extensively in the areas of missions, evangelism and church growth and he speaks frequently for churches, networks, conferences and mission agencies. He is the author of books such as Missional House Churches, The Barnabas Factors, Discovering Church Planting, Strangers Next Door, Kingdom Expressions and Pressure Points. In addition to these works, he and Mark Terry coauthored Developing a Strategy for Missions and he coedited Missionary Methods with Craig Ott. J. D. has pastored five churches in Kentucky and Indiana and has worked with four church planting teams. He formerly served as the executive vice president for administration for the Evangelical Missiological Society and as the book review editor for the Great Commission Research Journal. He and his wife Sarah and their three children live in Birmingham, Alabama.