
What Kind of God?
Reading the Bible with a Missional Church
Bret Wells(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 5. April 2018
184 pages
978-1-5326-1472-9 (ISBN)
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How does a missional mindset or perspective impact the way we read Scripture?
How does the Bible speak to and through a missional disciple?
And seriously, what kind of God is God?
A missional reading of Scripture is pivotal to helping the church find its way back to its true vocation and to helping newly forming missional communities follow the triune God revealed in Jesus. To the extent that the church is absorbed with itself and its own comfort and agendas, it has forsaken the God revealed in Jesus, whom we claim to follow. The mission of God will lead us to confront the injustices in our society, shed light on the lies we tell ourselves, and name the sickness in our midst.
Reading the Bible with (and as) a missional church means we approach the Bible with the assumption that God is actually up to something in this world, that we are all called to play an active role in that something, and that the Bible is the story of that something.
What kind of God is God? We invite you to read with us, and see for yourself.
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-1472-9 (9781532614729)
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Bret Wells is a Leader and Managing Director of the Missional Wisdom Foundation, which experiments with and teaches about alternative forms of Christian community. He is a certified leadership coach, working with individuals and teams across the country. Bret is also a minister and co-leader of The Gathering, a missional community in Burleson, Texas. He is a contributor to Abide: A Guide to Living in Intentional Community (2014).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1: What Does It All Mean?
- Chapter 2: Genesis 1-2: The Community of Love
- Chapter 3: Who Are We?
- Chapter 4: Isaiah 56-59: Who Will We Become?
- Interludes on Jesus
- Jesus and the Bleeding Woman: Transforming the Community Story
- John 4: "I Am" Sent Her
- Philippians 2: To Want and to Do
- Chapter 5: Philippians 4:4-9: Think about Such Things
- Chapter 6: Revelation 21:1-22:5: Now Among the People
- Chapter 7: Little Children and One Fat Ox
- Bibliography
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