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This review is from: Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem...Revisited (American Society of Missiology) (Paperback)
This challenging book confronts evangelicals' stewardship of resources, and to settle for nothing less than a "righteous rich" behavior; representing a credible Gospel witness. Bonk says that Missions and Money "is not about economic theory, but about the challenge of living Christianly in contexts of dire economic deprivation and destitution" (xxiv, emphasis original).
The Gospel translates as a message presented by Christians through words and deeds; God's loving Kingdom rule has entered earth; this truth must follow with Christian practices that proclaim God's just rule. The material wealth of many Christians in America is sometimes only exceeded by a material greed. The Gospel has a difficult, but livable answer. God says that camels can go through eyes of needles... but only with His power. Read this book to penetrate your life with a challenge to live out a "more excellent way" (cf. overture to 1 Corinthians 13).
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In an economic variation of the David and Goliath theme so dear to the Christian heart, the last two hundred years have witnessed David (Western missionaries) wearing Saul's armor and carrying Saul's weapons, inarching against a Goliath (the mission field) clad in a skin and armed with only a few stones and a sling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agricultural missions, missionary affluence, missionary identification, missionaries proceeding, missionary communication, personal affluence, righteous rich, simpler living Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In an economic variation of the David and Goliath theme so dear to the Christian heart, the last two hundred years have witnessed David (Western missionaries) wearing Saul's armor and carrying Saul's weapons, inarching against a Goliath (the mission field) clad in a skin and armed with only a few stones and a sling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agricultural missions, missionary affluence, missionary identification, missionaries proceeding, missionary communication, personal affluence, righteous rich, simpler living Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North American, New Testament, United States, Old Testament, Third World, Central Africa, London Missionary Society, International Missionary Council, Orhis Books, Western Christian, South Africa, Merle Davis, South Pasadena, Daniel Johnson Fleming, William Carey Library, Mission Handbook, Jesus Christ, Oxford University Press, Christ Jesus, Grand Rapids, East Africa, Christian Scriptures, Kosuke Koyama, Griffith John Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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