The Word on the Wind: Renewing Confidence in the Gospel - Brossura

Morgan, Alison

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857210157 ISBN 13: 9780857210159

Casa editrice: Monarch Books, 2011

Riassunto

The average age of churchgoers in Britain is now 47. Almost every denomination is experiencing steady decline. How sure can we be that we are still offering something people want to hear? Alison Morgan identifies four clear reasons to be confident: 1. The gospel still speaks to confused teens and weary sceptics. By embracing doubts and welcoming questions it remains open to us to present something which answers people's real needs. 2. The word of truth and the Spirit of power still exercise authority and compel attention. Alison's own experience of ministry in the UK and abroad provides illustrations. 3. Spiritual gifts, given not to excite individuals but in order to renew the church for its core task of mission, are powerfully present and widely recognised and practised. 4. In a time of rapid cultural change, new expressions of church are constantly emerging: this is necessary to guard against vital spirituality sliding into drab religion.

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Recensione:

Brilliant! Alison's book is not another good book on the evidence for Jesus and the validity of the gospel. There are plenty of those. No, it's much, much more than that, for it addresses the present reality of the power and effectiveness of the gospel in the lives of ordinary people in today's world. --John Noble, Pioneer

Alison Morgan's writing is so winsome that it's easy to be caught up in the beauty of what she's saying before you realise she's just smacked you between the eyes with a piece of two-by-four. Like her previous book, The Wild Gospel, which was a great inspiration to me, this new book presents a deeply radical message in the most eloquent and seductive manner. You've been warned! --Michael Frost, author, The Shaping of Things to Come

Peppered with stories of changed lives, this book will inspire and challenge. You gotta read it! --Mark Russell , CEO, Church Army

L'autore:

Alison Morgan is a well-known author and speaker. She is an Associate of The Mathetes Trust, a registered charity which supports and encourages Christian discipleship within the UK and in Africa. Alison has a PhD from Cambridge University and prior to her ordination into the Church of England in 1996 worked as a university lecturer; she is the author of an internationally recognised work on the poet Dante. Alison worked for many years alongside her husband Roger in parish ministry, first in Corby and then at Holy Trinity Leicester, where she oversaw the church's ministry of prayer for healing. Best known for The Wild Gospel, Alison is the author of many books and course materials, and the editor of Rooted in Jesus, a practical discipleship course now in wide use in sub-Saharan Africa. In her spare time Alison enjoys ornithology, walking and cycling, and photography. She and her husband Roger live in Somerset.

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• Editore: Monarch Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857210157
• ISBN 13: 9780857210159
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368