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Download PDF by Kristopher Norris: Pilgrim Practices: Discipleship for a Missional Church

By Kristopher Norris

ISBN-10: 1498214770

ISBN-13: 9781498214773

ISBN-10: 161097865X

ISBN-13: 9781610978651

regardless of a wealth of literature at the "missional church" and "missional living," few assets support Christians and church buildings imagine via what it ability to be disciples of Jesus Christ and what particular practices support domesticate lives of discipleship. Written from, with, and for the church, Pilgrim Practices: Discipleship for a Missional Church introduces Christian practices from the Letter of James to aid advisor Christians and church buildings of their trip of discipleship. This e-book frames discipleship in a fashion that has been mostly deserted in glossy congregational literature, as essentially a topic of identity--an identification that's unavoidably shaped and practiced in and with the church neighborhood. it's a way of life that can't be lived on one's personal. Discipleship finally potential enticing with others on a trip of religion sustained and cultivated via convinced practices--pilgrim practices. The practices tested during this publication enhance and direct the dicy pilgrim trip of Christians, reworking pilgrims into disciples--as the physique of Christ--who take part with God in God's venture on this planet. during this time of temporary identities, individualist impulses, and fleeting commitments, this e-book bargains particular practices to assist Christians shape their identification as disciples and to assist Christian groups reside their calling because the pilgrim physique of Christ within the world.

"Kristopher Norris's Pilgrim Practices is a winsome therapy of the Christian lifestyles geared up round the key topics of pilgrimage and perform. Norris retrieves the traditional knowing of Christianity as no longer only a collection of doctrines yet a people's approach to life in its place group on missional pilgrimage on this planet. The booklet starts off with a precious exposition of this simple imaginative and prescient, that is by means of a relatively wealthy dialogue of key practices of Christian discipleship as those are published within the Epistle of James. This ebook is unique, sincere, humble, and regularly attractive. I strongly suggest it."
-David P. Gushee
Distinguished college Professor of Christian Ethics
Mercer University

"With writing as shiny and fascinating as his imaginative and prescient of the Church, Kris Norris opens up clean sky over what it skill to persist with Jesus on the earth. I already are looking to learn it again."
--Julie Pennington-Russell
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Decatur, GA

"Pilgrim Practices is a brilliant instance of what can take place whilst a student lands in an area congregation and genuine lives develop into fertile soil for concepts. The demonstration plot of actual neighborhood breathes lifestyles into Norris' theology. the result's a research of James that might profit any congregation that is wanting to sign up for God's challenge correct the place they are."
-Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
author of God's financial system and co-compiler, universal Prayer

"It feels like there's a lot of speak nowadays in regards to the 'missional church.' yet Kris Norris places biblical flesh on these bones and is helping these folks who are looking to be genuine disciples of Christ take the following steps. it is approximately receiving and getting into a brand new identity--about falling in love with Christ, Christ's humans, and Christ's paintings on the earth. Norris walks us in the course of the e-book of James and right into a development for a bolder and extra genuine manner of living."
-Stephen A. Hayner
President, Columbia Theological Seminary

Kristopher Norris is an ordained Baptist minister and PhD candidate in Theology and Ethics on the college of Virginia. He got earlier ministry levels from Duke college Divinity university and Emory collage. initially from North Carolina, he presently lives in Charlottesville, VA.

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