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Informationen zum Autor Bob Roberts Jr. is the founding pastor of NorthWood Church in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and has been involved in the planting of a hundred congregations in the United States. Bob also works in Australia, Asia, Afghanistan, Mexico, and Nepal helping with church planting and development and global engagement. Bob is a graduate of Baylor University (BA), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Mdiv), and Fuller Seminary (D.Min.) with an emphasis in church planting. He and his wife have two children. Klappentext The message that will change the world is only as strong as the transformation that has first taken place within believers. "Glocal" 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. Zusammenfassung Transformation lays the groundwork for what church and Christian community can become in this new century. Author and pastor Bob Roberts Jr. is one of the architects of this unique approach to Christianity—based on biblical and missional discipleship—that he calls T-Life (transformed life), which leads to a T-World (transformed world). Ever since Jesus' commission to make disciples in his name, Christianity has transformed lives and the world at large. To those watching, it must have looked like an upstart religion led by a group of men, most of whom were martyred for their beliefs. The voice of secular culture today is no louder and no more indulgent than it was in those days. And yet much of the Western church has settled for becoming just another mass media market that's adding to the noise, instead of a movement that continues to turn the world upside down. 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. Empowering the local church to invest in the global missions field. Consistently reestablishing our relationship with Jesus Christ in order to experience true transformation. In fact, all this 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 impact and creates transformation in the 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSAcknowledgments... 9Part 1Survival Questions for the Church:What Would Your Church Be Like If... ?1. How Do We Find Our Voice Again?... 172. Where Does the Church Fit?... 393. Why Are We Growing Churches Apart from Transformation?... 58Part 2T-Life: Creating a Culturefor Personal Transformation4. When Will Jesus Be Enough?... 775. Can Following Jesus Ever Be Private?... 966. What If the Church Were the Missionary?... 105Part 3T-World: Creating a Church for Transformation7. What Would It Look Like for the Church to Turn the WorldUpside Down?... 1278. Do We Want to Be the Biggest Church in the Area,or Church the Area?... 1399. What Do You Get When a Church Combines Billy Grahamwith Mother Teresa?... 156Appendixes1. Profile Qualities for Church Planters... 1712. Clarifying Your Calling... 1773. What Happens When We Capture Jesus’ Vision for theKingdom and Start Kingdom Churches?... 179Endnotes... 181Subject Index... 183...
