Don L. Davis

For more than forty years World Impact, an inner-city missions organization, has sought to declare in word and deed the love of Christ with our neighbors in the cities of America. After beginning with Bible clubs and children's ministry (the mid 60s to early 70s), we shifted to a discipleship focus on teens (mid 70s to early 80s), then to the formation of compassion and justice ministries (early 80s), with early Christian gatherings (mid to late 80s), and finally to indigenous church planting (since 1990). Our formal announcement over twenty-five years ago to plant self-governing, self-supporting, and self-reproducing indigenous churches among the city's disadvantaged put us on a course to empower the broken, develop urban leaders, and now, participate in global mission among the urban poor. This two-volume set is an anthology of much of our research, dialogue, and insight gleaned over the past two decades. It is a comprehensive collection of diverse materials, covering numerous topics and issues, all designed to help you better understand the theological, missiological, cultural, and anthropological roots of valid church planting work in the city. For those interested in church planting among the city's neediest population, this set is an absolute must.

For more than forty years World Impact, an inner-city missions organization, has sought to declare in word and deed the love of Christ with our neighbors in the cities of America. After beginning with Bible clubs and children's ministry (the mid 60s to early 70s), we shifted to a discipleship focus on teens (mid 70s to early 80s), then to the formation of compassion and justice ministries (early 80s), with early Christian gatherings (mid to late 80s), and finally to indigenous church planting (since 1990). Our formal announcement over twenty-five years ago to plant self-governing, self-supporting, and self-reproducing indigenous churches among the city's disadvantaged put us on a course to empower the broken, develop urban leaders, and now, participate in global mission among the urban poor. This two-volume set is an anthology of much of our research, dialogue, and insight gleaned over the past two decades. It is a comprehensive collection of diverse materials, covering numerous topics and issues, all designed to help you better understand the theological, missiological, cultural, and anthropological roots of valid church planting work in the city. For those interested in church planting among the city's neediest population, this set is an absolute must.

Este recurso pr ctico, til est especialmente dise ado para ayudar a los nuevos y crecientes cristianos a ser disc pulos eficaces/guerreros de Cristo, y est construido enteramente de la historia de Dios seg n lo dicho en las Escrituras. Siguiendo el esquema tem tico de Efesios, esta gu a de estudio ayuda a los creyentes a comprender lo que dice la Biblia acerca de las dimensiones clave de nuestra participaci n en la gran historia de Dios en nueve lecciones integradas. Estos estudios ponen los elementos clave en la forma en que cumplimos con nuestro papel en la historia de Dios, permitiendo a los estudiantes crecer como disc pulos de Cristo, ya que se basan en los fundamentos de la fe y la vida cristiana. Este recurso sirve como nuestro precursor oficial al curr culo de entrenamiento a nivel de seminario llamado Piedra Angular de TUMI, proveyendo una introducci n s lida a los mayores temas de la Biblia como tambi n a los principios fundamentales del discipulado cristiano.

La fe Cristiana se basa en la persona y la obra de Jes s de Nazaret, el Cristo, cuya encarnaci n, crucifixi n y resurrecci n cambiaron para siempre al mundo. Entre los a os 100 y 500 d. C. los creyentes, siendo una peque a minor a perseguida, pasaron a ser un fuerte movimiento agresivo que lleg mucho m s all de los l mites del imperio romano. Las ra ces que esta era produjo trajeron consigo nuestro canon (las Escrituras), nuestra adoraci n y nuestra convicci n (los principales credos de la Iglesia y los dogmas centrales de la fe, especialmente con relaci n a la doctrina de la Trinidad y de Cristo). Este libro sugiere c mo podemos nuevamente renovar nuestra fe contempor nea, redescubriendo nuestras ra ces, nuestras Ra ces Sagradas, mediante la recuperaci n de la Gran Tradici n de la Iglesia que puso en marcha la revoluci n cristiana.