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Matt Williams & Ken Collier. Biblical Leadership: Becoming a Different Kind of Leader. Ambassador-Emerald, 2004. 184 pp.
A Leader Like No Other
Leadership is influence, so the accepted definition goes. Influence is the ability to move another person in a direction you believe is important. By any definition, Jesus Christ was a leader like no other! . . .
Jesus Christ was the greatest leader the world has ever known because He was the greatest follower the world has ever known. He had a sharply focused view of exactly what His Father desired of Him. No trial, no deprivation, no conflict, no misunderstanding, and no death threat made Him swerve from following the will of His Father. What a leader! What a Follower!
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Rolland McCune. Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Evangelicalism. Ambassador-Emerald, 2004. 398 pp.
Biblical Inspiration and Inerrancy
Concessions concerning inspiration and inerrancy, especially inerrancy, are where the principal departures of some new evangelicals lie and where the deviations are most visibly pronounced, and destructive. Non-evangelicals have been quick to notice the concessions. L. Harold DeWolf, a liberal from Boston University, in 1960 noted “revisions” in the “fundamentalist” view of inspiration, as did John B. Cobb and William Hordern (neo-orthodox).
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Andreas Kostenberger & David Jones. God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation. Crossway, 2004. 448 pp.
Summary of Findings
We have come to the end of our discussion, and it is now time to briefly summarize the findings of our study of the biblical teaching regarding marriage, the family, and related subjects. At the outset, we noted that for the first time in its history, Western civilization is confronted with the need to define the meaning of the terms “marriage” and “family.” The cultural crisis that rages concerning the definitions of these terms was seen to be symptomatic of an underlying spiritual crisis that gnaws at the foundations of our once-shared societal values.
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Randy Newman. Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did. Kregel, 2004. 240 pp.
Introduction
You may think that this book is just plain weird. When it comes to evangelism, I think differently than a lot of people. I ask questions that other people don’t ask. I come up with answers that many people don’t think of. And answers that a lot of people find knock-down-drag-out invincible, leave me unconvinced.
Maybe you think like I do. Or maybe you know people who ask the same kinds of questions that I ask. Or maybe our world has changed so significantly that we need to rethink evangelism. . . .
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Randy Alcorn. Heaven. Tyndale, 2004. 516 pp.
Bookstores overflow with accounts of near-death and after-death experiences, complete with angels giving guided tours of Heaven. A few of these books may have authentic components, but many are unbiblical and misleading.
We Christians who believe God’s Word are partly to blame for this. Why? We have failed to explore and explain the Bible’s magnificent teachings about Heaven. No wonder a flood of unbiblical thinking has rushed in to fill the vacuum. Because the human heart cries out for answers about the afterlife, our silence on Heaven is particularly striking.
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Andy Stanley & Bill Willits. Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture. Multnomah, 2004. 192 pp.
Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture
- People Need Community
- Leaders Need Clarity
- Churches Need Strategy
- Connection Needs Simplicity
- Processes Need Reality
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Emily R. Brink and John D. Witvliet, eds. The Worship Sourcebook. Baker, 2004. 848 pp.
A Worship Leader’s Reference Book
This book is something of a unique experiment. It is designed to be used by Christians who value free-church, low-church, nonliturgical, evangelical approaches to worship but who also want to learn from and draw on historic patterns of worship. At the same time, the book aims to be useful and instructive to congregations who practice traditional or liturgical worship and who may be looking for ways to adapt it or to rethink its meaning.
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Andy Stanley, Lane Jones, & Reggie Joiner. 7 Practices of Effective Ministry. Multnomah, 2004. 192 pp.
Every Monday morning I sit down with our staff leadership for a time of learning. These are valuable times. And honestly, these are often frustrating times, because we look beyond where we are to where we could and should be as an organization.
These discussions lead to new beginnings and untimely deaths. The debate is unfiltered. At times it gets personal. We’ve all lost our cool at one time or another. I’m not always right. And it seems there are mornings when we’re wasting everybody’s time. But we continue to meet. We continue to harness our differences. Consequently, we continue to learn and grow.
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