Incarnational Mission: Being with the World

by Samuel Wells

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2018

Overview

A bold new way of thinking about Christian mission.

“With,” says Samuel Wells, “is the most important word in the Christian faith.”

In this compelling follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Wells explores what it means for mission-minded Christians and churches to be with the world.

Drawing on the Gospels, Acts, and personal insights gleaned from his more than two decades in ministry, Wells elaborates on the concept of being with in eight dimensions: presence, attention, mystery, delight, participation, partnership, enjoyment, and glory. His vivid narratives and wise reflections will help Christian readers better understand how to be with all kinds of people outside the church, both individually and collectively.

Key Features

• Explores what it means for mission-minded Christians and churches to be with the world
• Features a bold new way of thinking about Christian mission
• Helps Christian readers better understand how to be with all kinds of people outside the church, both individually and collectively

Contents

• Prologue: Not of This Fold
• Introduction: The Mission of Being With
• Being with the Lapsed
• Being with Seekers
• Being with Those of No Professed Faith
• Being with Those of Other Faiths
• Being with the Hostile
• Being with Neighbors
• Being with Organizations
• Being with Institutions
• Being with Government
• Being with the Excluded
• Epilogue: Are You Hungry?

Product Details

• Title: Incarnational Mission: Being with the World
• Author: Samuel Wells
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 254
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Missions › Theory; Incarnation; Church and the world
• ISBNs: 9780802874863, 080287486X
• Resource ID: LLS:NCRNTNLMSSNWRLD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:45:10Z

About Samuel Wells

Sam Wells graduated from Merton College, Oxford, with an MA in Modern History, from Edinburgh University with a BD in Systematic Theology, and from Durham University with a PhD in Christian Ethics. Before training for ordination, Sam was a community worker in inner-city Liverpool. From 1991–2005 he served in parish ministry in the Church of England. He was assistant curate in Wallsend, North Tyneside and in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, before being incumbent at St. Elizabeth’s, North Earlham, Norwich, and then St. Mark’s, Newnham, Cambridge. While in Norwich he helped to establish—and was for several years vice chair of—the North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit Development Trust, the first organization in the East of England devoted to community-led urban regeneration. He also established a non-profit organization offering disadvantaged children opportunities to discover wonder and joy through creative play.

In the summer of 2005, Wells became dean of Duke University Chapel and research professor of Christian ethics at The Divinity School. Sam’s responsibilities include preaching at the majority of the 11 a.m. Sunday services, leading worship, interacting with and praying for all levels of the university—leaders, faculty, administrators, students and staff. His work also entails lifting up the connections between Christian faith and theology and the pressing issues of the day, and making the Chapel and the poorest neighborhoods of Durham visible to one another. He is married to Jo Bailey Wells, who is a former dean of Clare College, Cambridge and is now director of Anglican Studies at Duke Divinity School, and they have two children.