Book Alert: The Mission of Today’s Church

B&H Academic has recently released The Mission of Today’s Church: Baptist Leaders Look at Modern Faith Issues.  Back cover says this book

is a thoughtful collection of twelve essays written by current Baptist pastors and theologians that address three major questions:

1.  What does it mean to be a Christian today on individual, group, and societal levels?
2.  How can Southern Baptists best work together?
3.  What is next for the Southern Baptist denomination?

Together these writings present and exciting and much-needed conversation among and for those who so love God’s church.

Here’s the detail info:
Title: The Mission of Today’s Church
Editor: R. Stanton Norman
Publisher: Broadman & Holman Academic
Publishing Date: March 2007
Pages: 210
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-8054-4378-3
Retail Price: $16.99

Here’s the table of contents:

1. Ten Mandates for Southern Baptists – Daniel L. Akin 
2. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Reflections on the Baptist Way – Charles S. Kelley
3. The Church, Worship, and the Lord’s Supper – David S. Dockery
4. Three Views of the Church’s Mission in the Black Community – James Jenkins
5. Explaining the Gospel to Kids – Charles L. Quarles
6. The Missional Nature of the Church and the Future of Southern Baptist Convention Churches – Ed Stetzer
7. Together We Grow: Congregational Polity as a Means of Corporate Sanctification – R. Stanton Norman
8. Congregational Polity and Its Strategic Limitations – Jerry Sutton
9. Being Salt and Light in a Post-Christian Culture – Barret Duke
10. Cooperation among Southern Baptist Churches as Set Forth in Article 14 of the Baptist Faith and Message – James W. (Jim) Richards
11. Toward a Theology of Cooperation – Chad Owen Brand
12. Salvation and the Sovereignty of God: The Great Commission a the Expression of the Divine Will – Kenneth D. Keathley

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