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From seed to fruit : global trends, fruitful practices, and emerging issues among Muslims / edited by J. Dudley Woodberry.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pasadena, CA : William Carey Library, 2008.Description: xiii, 426 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780878080038 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266.0088/297 22
LOC classification:
  • BV 2625 .F75 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Global trends : soils, seed, sowers and first fruits -- Assessing the soils -- Unploughed ground -- The imperishable seed -- Sowers from the global south -- Sister sowers and gatherers -- First fruits and future harvests -- Fruitful practices : sowing, watering, gathering, reproducing -- Introduction to fruitful practices -- Sowing (witnessing) -- Watering (discipling) -- Gathering (reproducing fellowships) -- Equipping stewards (leadership development) -- Gathering laborers (team building) -- Emerging issues : birds, rocks, sun, thorns, and good soil -- Factors which influence the type of incarnational identity that -- Jesus followers choose -- Factors which facilitate communities of believers leading to movements -- How and why of communicating the Bible in stories -- Keys to fruitful joint ministry between national (MBB) -- Leaders and fellowship partners -- Jesus followers and funding -- Islamism and receptivity to Jesus -- Use of the Qur'an -- Implications for witness of folk beliefs and practices -- Developing fruitful teams -- Beyond tentmaking in a post 9/11 world -- The roles of suffering and martyrdom -- Recapturing a missiology of suffering.
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BV 2625 .F75 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA003192 Available AUA003192

Includes bibliographical references (p.371-378) and index.

Global trends : soils, seed, sowers and first fruits -- Assessing the soils -- Unploughed ground -- The imperishable seed -- Sowers from the global south -- Sister sowers and gatherers -- First fruits and future harvests -- Fruitful practices : sowing, watering, gathering, reproducing -- Introduction to fruitful practices -- Sowing (witnessing) -- Watering (discipling) -- Gathering (reproducing fellowships) -- Equipping stewards (leadership development) -- Gathering laborers (team building) -- Emerging issues : birds, rocks, sun, thorns, and good soil -- Factors which influence the type of incarnational identity that -- Jesus followers choose -- Factors which facilitate communities of believers leading to movements -- How and why of communicating the Bible in stories -- Keys to fruitful joint ministry between national (MBB) -- Leaders and fellowship partners -- Jesus followers and funding -- Islamism and receptivity to Jesus -- Use of the Qur'an -- Implications for witness of folk beliefs and practices -- Developing fruitful teams -- Beyond tentmaking in a post 9/11 world -- The roles of suffering and martyrdom -- Recapturing a missiology of suffering.