Cancer &amp; Theology is an anthology of sixteen essays addressing the difficult questions of faith raised by illness and death. The essays, penned by a diverse collection of Christian thinkers, are often raw and always honest. Cancer &amp; Theology provides unique insights about the presence of God and the importance of community in the midst of grief and uncertainty. List of contributors: Paul Amlin, Kester Brewin, Adam Walker Cleaveland, Adam J. Copeland, Abigail Rian Evans, David Fitch, Nate Frambach, Greg Garrett, Tony Jones, Joshua Longbrake, Brian McLaren, Carol Howard Merritt, Brandon Lyman Mick, Andy Root, Mike Stavlund, and Greg Syler A portion of all proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society.

Cancer & Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Jones, Tony

Fitch, David E.

Root, Andrew

McLaren, Brian D.

Garrett, Greg

Brewin, Kester

Howard Merritt, Carol

Rian Evans, Abigail

Christian Books & Bibles

Elbow Co.

"North American evangelicals learned to do church in relation to modernity," asserts David Fitch. Furthermore, evangelicals have begun to model their ministries after the secular sciences or even to farm out functions of the church whenever it seems more efficient. As a result, the church, too often, has stopped being the church.In The Great Giveaway, Fitch examines various church practices and shows how and why each function has been compromised by modernity. Discussing such ministries as evangelism, physical healing, and spiritual formation, Fitch challenges Christians to reclaim these lost practices so that the church can regain its influence. Pastors, leaders, and students who minister to the postmodern world will find in this book fresh insight that will stir the hearts of many and spark muchneeded discussion about the evangelical church.

The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies

Baker Books

<ul><li>Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016</li></ul> In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again: Is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation but by becoming the good news in our culture? In Faithful Presence, noted pastor and scholar David Fitch offers a new vision for the witness of the church in the world. He argues that we have lost the intent and practice of the sacramental ways of the historic church, and he recovers seven disciplines that have been with us since the birth of the church. Through numerous examples and stories, he demonstrates how these revolutionary disciplines can help the church take shape in and among our neighborhoods, transform our way of life in the world, and advance the kingdom. This book will help you re-envision church, what you do in the name of church, and the way you lead a church. It recovers a future for the church that takes us beyond Christendom. Embrace the call to reimagine the church as the living embodiment of Christ, dwelling in and reflecting God's faithful presence to a world that desperately needs more of it.

Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

Jesus gave his followers seven key practices: 
<ul>
<li>The Lord's Supper</li>
<li>Reconciliation</li>
<li>Proclaiming the gospel</li>
<li>Being with the "least of these" </li>
<li>Being with children</li>
<li>Fivefold ministry gifting</li>
<li>Kingdom prayer </li>
</ul> When we practice these disciplines, God becomes faithfully present to us, and we in turn become God's faithful presence to the world. Pastor and professor David Fitch shows how these seven practices can revolutionize the church's presence in our neighborhoods, transform our way of life in the world, and advance the kingdom. Our communities can be changed when they see us practicing our faith. Go and do.

Seven Practices for the Church on Mission

An engaging and thoughtful book that guides readers into the frontiers of being a missional Christian Prodigal Christianity offers a down-to-earth, accessible, and yet provocative understanding of God's mission of redemption in the world, and how followers of Christ can participate in this work. It speaks into the discontent of all those who have exhausted conservative, liberal, and even emergent ways of being Christian and are looking for a new way forward. It offers building blocks for missional theology and practice that moves Christians into a gospel-centered way of life for our culture and our times. <ul>
<li>Offers a compelling and creative vision for North American Christians</li> <li>Puts forth a theology and ten critical signposts that must be observed to follow a missional way of life: post-Christendom, missio Dei, incarnation, witness, scripture, gospel, church, sexuality, justice, pluralism</li> <li>Asks questions and points to issues that trouble many leaders in the post-modern, post-denominational, post-Christendom church</li> </ul>
This book can fill the gap for the average Christian left discontented with the current options "after evangelicalism."

Prodigal Christianity: 10 Signposts into the Missional Frontier

Holsclaw, Geoffrey

Jossey-Bass

Prodigal Christianity: 10 Signposts Into the Missional Frontier

In The End of Evangelicalism? David Fitch examines the political presence of evangelicalism as a church in North America. Amidst the negative image of evangelicalism in the national media and its purported decline as a church, Fitch asks how evangelicalism's belief and practice has formed it as a political presence in North America. Why are evangelicals perceived as arrogant, exclusivist, duplicitous, and dispassionate by the wider culture? Diagnosing its political cultural presence via the ideological theory of Slavoj Zizek, Fitch argues that evangelicalism appears to have lost the core of its politic: Jesus Christ. In so doing its politic has become "empty." Its witness has been rendered moot. The way back to a vibrant political presence is through the corporate participation in the triune God's ongoing work in the world as founded in the incarnation. Herein lies the way towards an evangelical missional political theology. Fitch ends his study by examining the possibilities for a new faithfulness in the current day emerging and missional church movements springing forth from evangelicalism in North America.

The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission (Theopolitical Visions)

Wipf and Stock

How can the church engage the world, not by judgment nor accommodation but by becoming the good news in our culture? Offering seven distinct spiritual practices, David Fitch helps you re-envision church, what you do in the name of church, and the way you lead a church. Reimagine the church as the living embodiment of Christ, reflecting God's faithful presence to a desperate world.

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The Church of Us vs. Them: Freedom from a Faith That Feeds on Making Enemies

We are living in angry times. No matter where we go, what we watch, or how we communicate, our culture is rife with conflict. Unfortunately, Christians appear to be caught up in the same animosity as the culture at large. We are perceived as angry, judgmental, and defensive, fighting among ourselves in various media while the world looks on. How have we failed to be a people of reconciliation and renewal in the face of such tumult? Claiming that the church has lost itself in the grip of an antagonistic culture, David Fitch takes a close look at what drives the vitriol in our congregations. He traces the enemy-making patterns in church history and diagnoses the divisiveness that marks the contemporary evangelical church. Fitch shows a way for the church to be true to itself, unwinding the antagonisms of our day and making space for Christ's reconciling presence in our day-to-day lives. He offers new patterns and practices that move the church beyond making enemies to being the presence of Christ in the world, helping us free ourselves from a faith that feeds on division.

Brazos Press

Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power

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Books by Fitch, David E.

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Cancer & Theology

The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies

Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

Seven Practices for the Church on Mission

Prodigal Christianity: 10 Signposts into the Missional Frontier

Prodigal Christianity: 10 Signposts Into the Missional Frontier

The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission (Theopolitical Visions)

Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

The Church of Us vs. Them: Freedom from a Faith That Feeds on Making Enemies

Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power