Living His Story Together
Being a Community of Missionary Disciples
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Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780281087266
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 20/06/2024
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
'Profound, learned, informed, committed, invested and hope-filled . . . a book to renew and revive us.' ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN WELBY
In Living His Story (2020), Hannah Steele wrote 'with an infectious understanding of her subject' (Mark Oakley, Church Times).
Now, in Living His Story Together, she turns her attention to mission and evangelism that is not only for individuals but for the whole local church. Offering an inspiring mandate for the church to see itself as a missionary community, Hannah considers the practical outworkings of that identity through engaging with scripture and current theological thinking, and sharing real-life stories from churches on the front line.
Living His Story Together isn't an argument for a particular model of church (plant or parish, for example) but an exciting exploration of what can happen when two or three of God's missionary disciples are gathered together, empowered by the Spirit and seeking to be good news in the world today. It covers contemporary missional themes, such as hospitality, cultural engagement, presence, diversity and spoken witness, and offers practical principles - vividly enlivened by relating the imaginative and disarming ways in which ordinary churches and individuals are sharing the gospel - to help us embrace the great privilege to which we have been called.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Church and mission: Does the church have a mission?
2 Church on the move: Engaging with the world around us
3 Church as presence: Being a successful church
4 The Church as community: Being the body of Christ
5 The Church as witness: Living the gospel story
6 Church as dependent: The role of the spirit in mission
Steele writes with an infectious understanding of her subject . . . [She] wants us to see the beauty and privilege of belonging within this story of God and of the goodness in inviting others through the door by a process of transformative imagination. -- Mark Oakley * Church Times on LIVING HIS STORY * An outstanding assessment of the theology of the emerging church movement . . . an essential starting point for all reflecting on how to relate the Christian faith and the Christian church to the shifting complexities of postmodern British culture. -- Alister McGrath on NEW WORLD, NEW CHURCH?