From the original preface: This book grows out of the need to present a model of being the church which emphasizes covenant, commitment, and personal involvement with a small number of people. I have tried to offer the house church not just as an acceptable model of the church, but indeed as a good way of being the church, where Christians can emphasize the essentials of being the church—covenanting, worshiping, teaching, sharing, discipling, deciding, using spiritual gifts, serving, and growing.
Since conflict and war continue to threaten and destroy us, how do we find peace? And how do we understand the teaching of the bible about war and peace? In fifteen brief chapters, Lois Barrett explores the themes of war and peace in the Bible. She examines how God worked with the nation Israel in Old Testament times. Peace was found, not in waging war, but through faith in God. Security was won, not through human effort, but through trust in God’s actions. “Instead of trusting in modern weapons [horses and chariots], Israel was to trust God to win the battle,” the author writes. After Israel made a covenant with God at Schechem, God said, “I gave you a victory . . . . Your swords and bows had nothing to do with it” (Joshua 24:11-12. TEV). Can the way of love really overcome enemies? Explore in the author’s easy-to-read style how the weapons of God’s kind of warfare can lead to peace.
There is growing literature on the need for local congregations to become more mission-minded, yet churches lack the know-how for turning conviction into practice. This volume highlights eight tangible characteristics currently being modeled by nine congregations from across North America.
Revised statement on violence presented at the Mennonite Church and General Conference Mennonite Church assembly in 1997. Contains personal stories, an extensive bibliography, and a six-session study-action guide by Lois Barrett.
In this deeply therapeutic yet intimately personal book of reflection and affirmation, patterns and growth, Lois Wadas takes the reader on a journey of introspection that's all about relationships, growth, and forgiveness, especially of parents and self. Many of us present a façade of competent independence when inside we are really needy children. Calm when we are riddled with fear and anxiety. Anger when we really want to cry. We float from relationship to relationship, none of them turning out well. We blame the other. We blame our parents. But our parents did the best they could. None of us came with a set of instructions. Most of us are doing the best we can, we have ordinary lives, and we are surprised by the man or woman in the mirror-but a good deal of what we see is a fantasy. Most of us just don't look that deeply at ourselves. It is often not until we reach midlife that we begin to take inventory of ourselves and come away looking for answers. The answers are within. It can be scary in there. Directed at women and men who are ready to take a look back at their lives, The Good Breast is a workbook about you. So get a mirror and some tissues and read on.
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