Mustard Seed vs. McWorld

Tom Sine

Description

A guide for helping Christians understand the rapid-fire global changes in society and grasp God's perspective of working through the seemingly insignificant to effect lasting change.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 1999
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781441239594
• Langue: English

Extrait

© 1999 by Tom Sine
Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakerbooks.com
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ISBN 978-1-4412-3959-4
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Tables on pp. 134 and 139 are from John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, The State of Church Giving through 1995, Champaign, IL: empty tomb, inc., 1997.
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“Many of us consider Tom Sine one of the outstanding futurists of this generation. This book may be his very best. He communicates from both mind and heart his concerns for the church in the Western world. But he does not merely critique. He presents some practical potential solutions which every one of us should prayerfully consider.”
Paul Cedar, chairman, Mission America
“Because Tom Sine thinks carefully about our past and our future, we can take seriously what he says about our present. Mustard Seed vs. McWorld is an important book about our present and how, with divine creativity, we might envision our future. An important read that we neglect to our peril.”
Richard J. Foster, author, Celebration of Discipline and Streams of Living Water
“This book is a must read for any Christian leader who is determined to face tomorrow’s challenges equipped for the task. As one who spends a lot of time trying to peer into the future, I cannot commend this book more highly.”
Richard Kew, director, Anglican Forum for the Future
“ Mustard Seed vs. McWorld provides stimulating and helpful directions for radical changes within the church to effectively meet the future. For the many who greet the future of missions with some trepidation, Sine’s book offers hope, if we’re willing to make deliberate and innovative changes.”
Dellanna O’Brien, president, Woman’s Missionary Union
“An important book about our globalized society and the consumer values which drive it. This is essential reading for all Western Christians committed to shaping their lifestyles according to the teaching of Christ.”
Graham Cray, Ridley College, Cambridge
“ Mustard Seed vs. McWorld beckons us to choose the seeds of the kingdom and shows us how to plant them. This is essential work if the forces of global materialism are to be uprooted with the power of the gospel. A guidebook for imaginative discipleship, equipping Christians for the third millennium.”
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, general secretary, Reformed Church in America
“An intriguing book that shows secularism to be a lot deeper than most of us have thought. Sine forces us to confront our hidden accomodations to modernity and invites us to join his conspiracy for nondualistic discipleship.”
Peter C. Moore, president, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry
“Sine’s provocative prose will stimulate you to rethink many of the assumptions which keep us bound to a culture that has little to do with living for the glory of God and everything to do with making a buck.”
Paul E. McKaughan, president and CEO, Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies
“Drawing on wide experience, copious reading, and keen observation, Tom Sine guides us through the maze of a faltering modern world and shows how we can engage the new millennium hopefully. He looks at the world and sees many of the same trends and issues as secular futurists, but rather than reacting as an alarmist, he combines shrewd insight with an evangelical faith perspective to provide a hopeful take on the future.”
Wilbert R. Shenk, Fuller Theological Seminary
“Tom Sine has long been a master of the art of expecting the future. And he has had a keen eye for spotting the kingdom of God that comes in mustard seed ways. Now he puts the two together in a manifesto for Christians living in the age of globalization and change. He makes the vision imaginable and concrete. Bravo!”
George R. Hunsberger, professor of missiology, Western Theological Seminary
“Tom Sine is more than a futurist. He is a prophet in the New Testament sense seeing the emerging future and thrusting us into it. It is not always a comfortable ride, but it is essential if we are to be a part of God’s purposes and prepared for the missional realities of tomorrow. His latest book, Mustard Seed vs. McWorld , is compellingly relevant and positively disturbing.”
General Paul and Commissioner Kay Rader, the Salvation Army
“This book is a must for anyone who wants to be prepared to creatively embrace the challenges that Christianity faces in the third millennium.”
Anthony J. Ciorra, director, Center for Theological and Spiritual Development, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, N.J.
“If I had to buy one contemporary book for the third millennium, this would be the one. It is a riveting and life-inspiring read!”
Clive Calver, president, World Relief Corporation
“This book is enormously informative. I hope that many, many thousands of church, mission agency, and parachurch leaders and followers use it to chart their pilgrimage in the third millennium.”
Rodney Clapp, Evangelicals for Social Action
“ Mustard Seed vs. McWorld is a comprehensive, remarkably well-informed work. Essential reading for those who want to know where global culture is headed, how it will impact the church, and most important how Christians can act creatively, effectively, and with God-given hope and optimism.”
Howard Snyder, Asbury Theological Seminary
“In this book, Tom Sine explores the actual and likely impact of the globalization juggernaut on both the identity and the mission of the church. The book would serve admirably not only as a textbook but as a stimulating and possibly transforming agenda for church, mission, and seminary leadership retreats.”
Jonathan J. Bonk, associate director, Overseas Ministries Study Center
“ Mustard Seed vs. McWorld must be read by every church leader throughout America. As we careen wildly toward a future of massive global change, Tom Sine reminds us that some things never change God, his own vision for the world, and our renewed passion for the future of God.”
Isaac Canales, director, Hispanic Church Studies Department, Fuller Theological Seminary
“In Mustard Seed vs. McWorld Tom Sine creates a trifocal lens of hindsight, foresight, and insight, providing a clear and painful look at the current status of the church in the West.”
William R. O’Brien, director, the Global Center, Samford University
“Tom Sine cuts through corporate one-world propaganda to reveal the dark side of economic globalization and asserts with vigor that the American dream is no substitute for the mission that Jesus gave to the church.”
Stephen A. Hayner, president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
“It is refreshing to read a book that not only challenges you with the issues surrounding globalization but also leaves you with an exhilarating sense of innovative approaches to grassroots ministry around the world. The cover of this book should read: seeds of hope enclosed, plant freely.”
Tom F. Balke, Atlantic divisional director, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of Cananda
“In the postmodern and post-Christian third millennium, the conversation of a Christian missional involvement in tomorrow has been largely limited to the minds of academics and the hands of artists. Sine has now opened the dialogue to include the hearts of a remnant that has deconstructed modern values and is now seeking to uncover a faithful alternative that is local, global, and historical.”
Mark Driscoll, pastor, Mars Hill Fellowship, Seattle, Washington
“Sine’s engaging prose quickly draws you into an examination of important issues we face together in the third millennium.”
David Beckman, president, Bread for the World
“Tom Sine has done it again! With keen observation, concern, and insight into the world as it is now and is soon to become, he challenges Christians to lifestyles which incarnate Christ’s teachings and are more in tune with God’s purposes. You’ll be informed, inspired, and challenged by this exciting new publication.”
Linda Fuller, cofounder, Habitat for Humanity
“I urge those who want to make a difference in working with the poor not to pass up this book.”
John Perkins, chairman, Christian Community Development Association
“Tom Sine’s message is simple yet extremely important: Christians must rethink basic assumptions of globalism, and then refocus values on community and spirituality over individualism, consumerism, and materialism. Sine invites us to ‘use mustard seeds’ to make a difference in the world.”
Norm Ewert, associate professor of business and economics, Wheaton College
“Tom Sine’s Mustard Seed Conspiracy was a prophetic challenge to the international church and deeply affe