Transformation: Discipleship that Turns Lives, Churches, and the World Upside Down (audio)
Digital
Overview
Author and pastor Bob Roberts Jr. is one of the architects of what church and Christian community can become in this new century. His unique approach to Christianity is based on what he calls T-Life (transformed life), which leads to a T-World (transformed world). Drawing inspiration from early church history and the emerging church in the developing world, Roberts envisions a new way of engaging the local church to achieve common goals. He calls for building a church culture rather than a church program. Global churches create disciples who, transformed by the Holy Spirit, are infiltrating today’s culture on a global and local scale. In Roberts’s terms, when we establish a relationship with Jesus Christ and begin applying his principles, we experience T-Life (transformed life). Transformation begins with a growing, interactive relationship with God that includes personal and corporate worship. This, in turn, results in community. As community serves others, transformation has both a global and local (global) impact and creates T-World. Transformation redefines the focus and practice of the church, not from external bells and whistles, but from the internal transformation of the very character of its people. CONTENTS. Acknowledgments … 9. Part 1. Survival Questions for the Church:. What Would Your Church Be Like If …?. 1. How Do We Find Our Voice Again?… 17. 2. Where Does the Church Fit?… 39. 3. Why Are We Growing Churches Apart from Transformation?… 58. Part 2. T-Life: Creating a Culture for Personal Transformation. 4. When Will Jesus Be Enough?… 77. 5. Can Following Jesus Ever Be Private?… 96. 6. What If the Church Were the Missionary?… 105. Part 3. T-World: Creating a Church for Transformation. 7. What Would It Look Like for the Church to Turn the World. Upside Down?… 127. 8. Do We Want to Be the Biggest Church in the Area, or Church the Area?… 139. 9. What Do You Get When a Church Combines Billy Graham with Mother Teresa?… 156. Appendixes. 1. Profile Qualities for Church Planters … 171. 2. Clarifying Your Calling … 177. 3. What Happens When We Capture Jesus’ Vision for the Kingdom and Start Kingdom Churches?… 179. Endnotes … 181. Subject Index … 183. The message that will change the world is only as strong as the transformation that has first taken place within believers. “Global” churches create disciples who, transformed by the Holy Spirit, are infiltrating today’s culture on a global and local scale with the undeniable message of a changed life.
- Title: Transformation: Discipleship that Turns Lives, Churches, and the World Upside Down
- Author: Jr. Bob Roberts
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subject: Religion › Christian Church--Growth
- ISBNs: 9780310771760, 0310771765, 025986771768, 9780310326083, 9780310864448, 0310326087, 0310864445
- Resource ID: LLS:9780310771760
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T22:39:18Z