Created and Led by the Spirit: Planting Missional Congregations
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Overview
This fifth Missional Church Series volume seeks to bring historical clarity, biblical and theological substance, and practical guidance to church planting. The nine contributors—many of them experienced church-planting pastors—offer diverse yet cohesive perspectives on the Spirit’s missional church planting in our time.
Section One presents three essays which address missional church planting as a theological practice, with particular attention given to the activity of the Holy Spirit within the context of God’s Trinitarian life. Section Two grounds church planting initiatives in the generative soil of story. The two essays in this section narrate how specific congregations provide glimpses of the Holy Spirit in action, supplying the reader with hints for how history might lead to future expectations of the Holy Spirit’s ongoing church planting activity.
Three essays in Section Three focus on new frontiers appearing on the church planting horizon, and an epilogue provides a sermon which orients church planting efforts in witness that flows from the heart of God. In this book readers will find fresh insights into an exciting new future created and led by the Spirit.
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- Essays offering guidance on missional church planting
- Examination of the landscape of church planting and its future
- Section I: Theological Frameworks for Planting Missional Congregations
- Planting Missional Congregations: Imagining Together
- Human Flourishing
- Raised for Our Justification: Christ’s Spirit for Us and for All
- Section II: Glimpses of the Holy Spirit in Action
- New Churches for a New Millenium: The Holy Spirit Does it Again
- Hints from the Past for the Present and Future: Five Congregations and Their Church-Planting Stories
- Section III: New Appearances on the Scene
- Church Emerging: A Missional View
- Multicultural Church Planting: African Pneumatology in Western Context
- Postbureaucratic Churches: Emerging Forms of Organization and Leadership
- Epilogue: A Sermon
- Missional Church: Planted in the Gospel for All
- Daniel Anderson
- Leith Anderson
- Paul Chung
- Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier
- Todd Hobart
- Harvey Kwiyani
- Lois Malcolm
- Susan Tjornehoj
- Miroslav Volf
Finally—the absolutely necessary conversation between missional theology, church planting, and the divine agency of the Holy Spirit! Those who plant new churches, or facilitate those plantings, or educate and mentor planters, dare not miss a careful reading of this fresh articulation of what is happening as the Spirit births new churches and what that means.
—George R. Hunsberger, professor of missiology, Western Theological Seminary
Missional theology seeks to center every theological discipline on the missional vocation of the church as an outworking of the missionary nature and action of the triune God. This collection of essays addresses the theology and work of the Holy Spirit in the formation of witnessing congregations. It should be welcomed as a constructive resource for a much-needed missional pneumatology.
—Darrell Guder, Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Title: Created and Led by the Spirit: Planting Missional Congregations
- Editor: Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 227