If you want to know where and how the church is going to grow, think local and global. Think glocal. Glocal is Bob Roberts' term for the seamless connectedness between the local and global. That connection is affecting the church in ways that never could have been imagined in the first-century church, or even the twentieth-century church. And it's creating unprecedented opportunities for individuals and churches---for you and your church---to live out their faith in real time across the world. Glocalization offers a vision of the unprecedented changes of our times and how they are impacting the church. Discover how these changes will transform the way churches define their mission and how Christians relate to one another and to the world. This provocative book turns the traditional mission-agency model upside down and shows how transformed people and churches can make a glocal (global and local) impact. Glocalization offers an exciting vision for churches and individuals who want to reach this changing world for Christ.
Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage a Flat World
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'In Glocalization, Roberts...outlines six practices the church should adopt to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves in the glocal world. All six are excellent, and by confronting some well-established missionary habits, a few have the potential to be revolutionary....Roberts' inspiring stories from Communist and Islamic nations reinforce his claim that no country is closed to the gospel, just to our usual methods of bringing it....Many pastors have learned ministry techniques by mimicking corporate strategies and good management. In the new flat earth, the entire church must learn to be missionaries, and this will once again require all of the Holy Spirit's gifts, comfort, counsel, power, and fruit....After reading the book, I'm inspired to take the gospel into all the world, starting in my own cul-de-sac.' -- Leadership journal <br><br> (Leadership journal )
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Bob is a wild and thoroughly compelling apostle-prophet to this generation. His words and actions remind us that the Kingdom of God transcends locality, tribe, and nationality, and that the local church can fulfill its real purpose only if it has the whole world in view and the Kingdom of God as its driving agenda. This book will go a long way to help the 21st Century church to comprehend what it really means to think global but act local as well as to act global and think local. -- Alan Hirsch, Founder and Director, Forge Mission Training Network; Author, The Shaping of Things to Come and The Forgotten Ways <br><br>
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Bob Roberts Jr. is the founding pastor of NorthWood Church in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and has been involved in the planting of a hundred congregations in the United States. Bob also works in Australia, Asia, Afghanistan, Mexico, and Nepal helping with church planting and development and global engagement. Bob is a graduate of Baylor University (BA), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Mdiv), and Fuller Seminary (D.Min.) with an emphasis in church planting. He and his wife have two children.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There is only a handful of people whose life demands a read and careful study. Bob Roberts is one of those persons. What his church has done is unique. It is one of the few churches in the United States that has taken cultural transformation global while maintaining an Evangelical message. This book reveals the heart of such a pastor and presents many practical points of application.
I'm puzzled by the critical review of Isaiah. He's disappointed by a local church only adopting a few locations? Bob teaches that churches need to learn to specialize, pick a city or country and develop a relationship-better, a friendship, and encourage another church to do the same thing. To try to everything is to do nothing.
Isaiah's opening line, "If you believe you can just tell people about Jesus without caring for their physical needs, you may want to read this book." suggests he hasn't read the book very well. The book is all about cultural impact which is completely about ministry to the whole person.
It is especially disappointing to see a reviewer use pejorative terms--"self indulgent" does not describe this book or Bob Roberts.
Obviously there is a vital issue at stake. Read the book.
I rate the book with 4 stars, because I would like for it to be a little more systematic in its approach. While not being a systematic treatise, it is the heartfelt cry of a pastor who is doing something very significant and inviting many others to go along on the journey. As I think about it, perhaps the lack of system is a plus in a post-modern world. I guess my professorial habits have found me out.
I'm puzzled by the critical review of Isaiah. He's disappointed by a local church only adopting a few locations? Bob teaches that churches need to learn to specialize, pick a city or country and develop a relationship-better, a friendship, and encourage another church to do the same thing. To try to everything is to do nothing.
Isaiah's opening line, "If you believe you can just tell people about Jesus without caring for their physical needs, you may want to read this book." suggests he hasn't read the book very well. The book is all about cultural impact which is completely about ministry to the whole person.
It is especially disappointing to see a reviewer use pejorative terms--"self indulgent" does not describe this book or Bob Roberts.
Obviously there is a vital issue at stake. Read the book.
I rate the book with 4 stars, because I would like for it to be a little more systematic in its approach. While not being a systematic treatise, it is the heartfelt cry of a pastor who is doing something very significant and inviting many others to go along on the journey. As I think about it, perhaps the lack of system is a plus in a post-modern world. I guess my professorial habits have found me out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I truly enjoyed this book. It is not a typical "how to" missions book that merely confirms what probably you are already doing in your church. Bob Roberts pushes the boundaries. His perspective and approach to short-term missions is different from anything that I have ever read. From cover to cover, I felt as if my missiological practises and leadership as a pastor were being tested and refined.
By Gina
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Lot's of valuable information, easy to read, and follow. I think it would work best for someone who is in the mission field or considering missions. It's eye opening if you are uninformed.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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How a local church can become truly global
The best way for a local church to conduct missions today is to send the whole church, according to Bob Roberts in this remarkable book. Read more
Published on December 8, 2009 by John Gibbs
3.0 out of 5 stars
It was good, but old...
If you are a reader, and haven't read this one, and then you are encouraged to read it, once you read it, it will be stuff you have read before. Read more
Published on May 31, 2008 by Matthew D. Hansen
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Glocalization
If the church would follow these principles we would effectivelly reach the world for Christ.
Published on May 29, 2008 by Charles N. Rollins
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Movilizing, Activiating and Connecting Individuals around the world!
The book is vital because it brings personal experience of a man that has put a side his old mental models and traditions in order to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Read more
Published on October 1, 2007 by Sergio Ramos
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing new
If you believe you can just tell people about Jesus without caring for their physical needs, you may want to read this book. Read more
Published on April 7, 2007 by Isaiah
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5 Stars +++++++++++
And I thought Transformation was great. . .Glocalization Rocks! I won't be going back to Asia until late summer. This book has put me on pins and needles. Read more
Published on March 6, 2007 by A. Colon
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Leave your country!
Leave you country! This book will help you to get out of your country. I thank this book for opening my eyes to see Big pictrue bigger than my country. Read more
Published on February 23, 2007 by Young Hak Kim
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A Book For All Domains
This book is for you only if in you fit into one of the domains of society (i.e. government, art, education, business, etc.). Read more
Published on February 15, 2007 by Scott Beebe
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Buy it today
Written to assist the church in responding to the realities demonstrated in Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat," Roberts does an exceptional job in casting vision and... Read more
Published on February 14, 2007 by Marty Duren
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One of the most profound books you will ever read
Bob has written an absolutely profound book. My copy came 2nd day yesterday and I read it last night. Read more
Published on February 7, 2007 by David Phillips
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