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To alter your world : partnering with God to rebirth our communities / Michael Frost, Christiana Rice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frost, Michael, 1961- author.
- Rice, Christiana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and the world.
- Christianity--Influence.
- Christianity.
- Change--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Change.
- Redemption--Christianity.
- Redemption.
- Mission of the church.
- Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Communities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2017].
- Summary:
- * 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Church In Christ, a new world is being born and the new creation is unfurling all around us. God is directing history toward the future restoration, repair, and renewal of all creation. And our job is to cooperate with God in being a sign and foretaste of that coming world. Renowned missional leaders Michael Frost and Christiana Rice introduce the bold metaphor of a midwife to depict us as God's birthing attendants as the kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven.With groundbreaking ideas and practical illustrations from all corners of the globe, To Alter Your World will change the way you see how your church can partner in God's world-altering mission. Nothing else could be more rewarding than laboring alongside a God who is birthing the new creation and inviting all to join in its benefits and blessings.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. God groans like a woman in labor
- 2. What's standing in our way?
- 3. A divine disruption
- 4. Midwives to the birth of the new creation
- 5. Making space for birth to happen
- 6. On being adaptive and daring
- 7. How to really change the world
- 8. Changing the world through our work
- 9. Changing the world through placecrafting
- 10. Being changed as we bring change
- 11. Suffering along the way.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780830893355
- 0830893350
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