Mark DeYmaz's Books

Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation

By: Mark DeYmaz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation

By: Mark DeYmaz

Through personal stories, proven experience, and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church and the seven core commitments required to bring it about. Mark DeYmaz, pastor of one of the most proven multi-ethnic churches in the country, writes from both his experience and his extensive study of how to plant, grow, and encourage more ethnically diverse churches. He argues that the "homogenous unit principle" will soon become irrelevant and that the most effective way to spread the gospel in an increasingly diverse world is through strong and vital multi-ethnic churches. Apart from ethnically and economically diverse relationships, we cannot understand others different from ourselves, develop trust for others who are different than us, and/or love others different than ourselves. Apart from understanding, trust, and love, we are less likely to get involved in the plight of others different than ourselves. Without involvement, nothing changes, and the disparaging consequences of systemic racism remain entrenched in our culture. Surely, it breaks the heart of God to see so many churches segregated ethnically or economically from one another, and that little has changed in the many years since it was first observed that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in the land.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

243

Publisher

Fortress Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1506463401

ISBN 13

9781506463407

Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Seven Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Seven Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

Increasingly, church leaders are recognizing the power and beauty of the multi-ethnic church. Yet, more than a good idea, it’s a biblical, first-century standard with far-reaching evangelistic potential. How can your church overcome the obstacles to become a healthy multi-ethnic community of faith? And why should you even try? In Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church (formerly titled Ethnic Blends), Dr. Mark DeYmaz provides an up-close-and-personal look at seven common challenges to creating diversity in your church. Through real-life stories and practical illustrations, DeYmaz shows how to overcome the obstacles in order to lead a healthy multi-ethnic church. He also includes the insights of other effective multi-ethnic church leaders from the United States and Australia, as well as study questions at the end of each chapter. Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church describes what effective local churches in the 21st century will look like and shows us how to create them, together as one, beyond race and class distinctions. –Miles McPherson, Senior Pastor, The Rock Church, San Diego, CA Mark DeYmaz, perhaps more than any pastor in America, has his pulse on what it will take for the Church to find real reconciliation in our generation. –Matt Carter, Lead Pastor, Austin Stone Community Church, Austin, TX

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

237

Publisher

Zondervan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0310514754

ISBN 13

9780310514756

Ethnic Blends

Mixing Diversity Into Your Local Church

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ethnic Blends

Mixing Diversity Into Your Local Church

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

In this Leadership Network Innovation series book, Ethnic Blends, Mark DeYmaz will help you navigate seven common challenges in building a healthy multi-ethnic church. The rise of multi-ethnic churches could become the new Reformation in this century. Yet the movement is in a pioneer stage, and there have been few road maps ... until now.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Zondervan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0310321239

ISBN 13

9780310321231

The Coming Revolution in Church Economics

Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It

By: Mark DeYmaz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Coming Revolution in Church Economics

Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It

By: Mark DeYmaz

Our entire understanding of funding and sustainability must change. Tithes and offerings alone are no longer enough to provide for the needs of the local church, enable pastors to pursue opportunities, or sustain long-term ministry impact. Growing financial burdens on the middle class, marginal increases in contributions to religious organizations, shifting generational attitudes toward giving, and changing demographics are having a negative impact on church budgets. Given that someday local churches may be required to pay taxes on the property they own and/or lose the benefit of soliciting tax-deductible gifts, the time to pivot is now. What's needed is disruptive innovation in church economics. For churches to not only survive but thrive in the future, leaders must learn to leverage assets, bless the community, empower entrepreneurs, and create multiple streams of income to effectively fund mission. You'll learn why you should and how to do so in The Coming Revolution in Church Economics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

158

Publisher

Baker Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1493420224

ISBN 13

9781493420223

The Coming Revolution in Church Economics

Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It

By: Mark DeYmaz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Coming Revolution in Church Economics

Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It

By: Mark DeYmaz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

158

Publisher

Baker Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1493420224

ISBN 13

9781493420223

Disruption

Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community

By: Mark DeYmaz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Disruption

Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community

By: Mark DeYmaz

Well-meaning church leaders and planters often set out to radically transform their communities for Christ-kingdom causes. Their aspirations and visions are limitless. However, often the best-laid plans fail to yield results of any consequence—they become frustrated, and pull the plug leaving behind the remnants of all their best intentions. Does it have to be this way? Is it possible for a local church to become so influential in its community that it becomes a life-giving agent for believers and non-believers? A resource that becomes the catalyst whereby abandoned buildings are repurposed, small businesses attracted, jobs created, crime reduced, justice progressed, health improved, and ultimately, the kingdom of God advanced in such a way that it impacts the every corner of the community? In Disruption: Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community, Dr. Mark DeYmaz explains why such an outlook it not only possible but essential for the church to gain credibility and relevance in the community it seeks to influence. Genuine transformation never occurs through maintaining the status quo. A Disruption is often the missing ingredient that moves the church from ineffective to radically transformative.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Thomas Nelson

Published Date

ISBN 10

0718089227

ISBN 13

9780718089221

Ethnic Blends

Mixing Diversity into Your Local Church

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ethnic Blends

Mixing Diversity into Your Local Church

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

In this Ethnic Blends Ebook, multi-ethnic church pioneer Mark DeYmaz provides an up-close and personal look at seven common challenges to mixing diversity into your local church. Through real-life stories and practical illustrations, DeYmaz shows how to overcome the obstacles in order to build a healthy multi-ethnic church. He also includes the insights of other effective, multi-ethnic local church pastors from around the country.Increasingly, church leaders are recognizing the intrinsic power and beauty of the multi-ethnic church. Yet, more than a good idea, it's a biblical, first-century standard with far-reaching evangelistic potential. How can your church overcome the obstacles in order to become a healthy, fruitful multi-ethnic church of faith? And why should you even try?“Ethnic Blends will help every church broaden its horizon of outreach, love and care for their city. Acts 1:8 commands us to reach the uttermost parts of the earth. Today, the "uttermost parts" are found within a few miles of where you live. God called us to reach people, love people and help them grow in Christ, no matter their background. Mark's book helps us recapture that vision in a powerful way.” —Jonathan Falwell, pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

252

Publisher

Zondervan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0310321255

ISBN 13

9780310321255

re:MIX

Transitioning Your Church to Living Color

By: Mark DeYmaz,Bob Whitesel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

re:MIX

Transitioning Your Church to Living Color

By: Mark DeYmaz,Bob Whitesel

re:MIX: Transitioning Your Church to Living Color is a practical guide for pastors, denominational leaders, and lay leaders who are seeking to transition their monoethnic congregations into healthy multiethnic churches of Christ-centered faith. The book is theologically sound, cross-culturally relevant, and based on field research. It provides transferrable lessons and practices that are applicable in a variety of local church and denominational contexts. Authors Mark DeYmaz and Bob Whitesel demonstrate that such transitions are not just timely or optional. Indeed, these biblically grounded transitions are necessary for churches pursuing growth and health in an increasingly diverse society. By becoming a church of living color, existing or declining churches present a more credible witness of God’s love for all people and can achieve renewed significance and sustainability. re:MIX is full of instructive, immediately useful information in a clear and easy-to-use format and includes sidebar stories from church leaders in a variety of denominations who have transitioned their congregations to living color. “Wow! This is the practical tool for the church that I have been waiting for. Pentecost didn’t occur until the diversity of ‘every nation under heaven’ was present. This book will become recommended reading for all of my seminary students.” —Mike Slaughter, pastor, author, speaker, and activist

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1630886939

ISBN 13

9781630886936

Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Seven Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Seven Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

By: Mark DeYmaz,Harry Li

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

237

Publisher

Zondervan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0310514754

ISBN 13

9780310514756

Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation

By: Mark DeYmaz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation

By: Mark DeYmaz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

243

Publisher

Fortress Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1506463401

ISBN 13

9781506463407

Disruption

Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community

By: Mark DeYmaz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Disruption

Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community

By: Mark DeYmaz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Thomas Nelson

Published Date

ISBN 10

0718089227

ISBN 13

9780718089221

Technicolor

Inspiring Your Church to Embrace Multicultural Ministry

By: Mark Hearn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Technicolor

Inspiring Your Church to Embrace Multicultural Ministry

By: Mark Hearn

By the year 2050, the United States will no longer have a majority ethnic group. The nation's population will be majority-minority. This future nationwide reality has already been a present reality in several cities, including many in the urban south, for nearly a decade. In a 2011 State of the City Address, the mayor of pastor and author Mark Hearn's city said there were fifty-seven languages spoken at the local high school. Hearn left asking himself, How should our church respond? In the years that have followed, a phenomenal transformation has taken place. This transition has been chronicled in the Gwinnet Daily Post, the Christian Index, the Wall Street Journal, Lifeway's Facts and Trends, and the Atlanta Magazine. Now, Hearn shares the life-changing story through his own lens. By reading his firsthand experience of this transition as a pastor, you too can be equipped to make the shift to church in technicolor.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

177

Publisher

B&H Publishing Group

Published Date

ISBN 10

1433691728

ISBN 13

9781433691720

Understanding Faith Formation

Theological, Congregational, and Global Dimensions

By: Mark A. Maddix,Jonathan H. Kim,James Riley Jr. Estep

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Understanding Faith Formation

Theological, Congregational, and Global Dimensions

By: Mark A. Maddix,Jonathan H. Kim,James Riley Jr. Estep

Three leading Christian educators offer a survey of faith formation from various perspectives: biblical, theological, pastoral, practical, and global. They present a biblical theology of faith formation for individual and congregational life and show how faith can be formed through the life and mission of the local church through practices such as communal worship, Bible study, and mission. They also explore the faces of faith formation in multicultural and global contexts. The book includes practical exercises for those beginning in ministry and reflection questions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

150

Publisher

Baker Academic

Published Date

ISBN 10

1493427296

ISBN 13

9781493427291

Hearing in Technicolor

Mindset Shifts within a Multicultural Ministry

By: Mark Hearn,Darcy Wiley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hearing in Technicolor

Mindset Shifts within a Multicultural Ministry

By: Mark Hearn,Darcy Wiley

In a 2011 State of the City Address, the mayor of pastor and author Mark Hearn's city said there were fifty-seven languages spoken at the local high school. Hearn left asking himself, How should our church respond? This question led to a movement that brought First Baptist Duluth to reflecting its surrounding community. This journey was captured in Pastor Hearn’s first book, Technicolor: Inspiring Your Church to Embrace Multicultural Ministry Now, nearly five years after Technicolor, members of his congregation discuss the joys, struggles, and triumphs of being a part of a multi-ethnic church- providing a glimpse of the nature of a church that reflects its community.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

168

Publisher

B&H Publishing Group

Published Date

ISBN 10

1087712955

ISBN 13

9781087712956

Ephesians

By: Mark D. Roberts

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ephesians

By: Mark D. Roberts

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —Ephesians— Like all of Paul's letters, Ephesians is centered in the gospel and its implications. It tells the story of what God has done in Christ and spells out the ethical implications of this story. But the letter to the Ephesians is unique among Paul's letters in many ways, including in how it tells of the story of God, beginning "before the creation of the world" and ending in eternity. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Zondervan Academic

Published Date

ISBN 10

0310599121

ISBN 13

9780310599128

Churches, Cultures, and Leadership

A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities

By: Mark Lau Branson,Juan F. Martinez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Churches, Cultures, and Leadership

A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities

By: Mark Lau Branson,Juan F. Martinez

In a world that is more culturally diverse than ever, pastors and lay leaders need skills and competencies to serve in multicultural contexts. This rich blend of astute analysis and practical guidance offers a praxis of paying attention, study, and discernment that leads to genuine reconciliation and shared life empowered by the gospel.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

213

Publisher

InterVarsity Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1514002884

ISBN 13

9781514002889

re:MIX

Transitioning Your Church to Living Color

By: Mark DeYmaz,Bob Whitesel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

re:MIX

Transitioning Your Church to Living Color

By: Mark DeYmaz,Bob Whitesel

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1630886939

ISBN 13

9781630886936

Jesus in a World of Colliding Empires, Volume Two: Mark 8:30–16:8 and Implications

Mark's Jesus from the Perspective of Power and Expectations

By: Mark J. Keown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jesus in a World of Colliding Empires, Volume Two: Mark 8:30–16:8 and Implications

Mark's Jesus from the Perspective of Power and Expectations

By: Mark J. Keown

At the time of Christ, world politics was an ebb and flow of colliding empires and forces. The world knew only dynastic succession and rule by force. Israel was swept up in this world. Her expectations of deliverance, while diverse, had in common the anticipation of violent liberation by an alliance of God, the expected one (Theo), and Israel's forces. Her vision included the subjugation of the world to Yahweh. Any messianic claimant would be expected to fulfill this hope. Mark's story of Jesus must be read against such expectations of military power. Mark knows that Jesus' plan of salvation differed radically from this. Rather than liberation through revolution, it involved deliverance through humble, loving service and cross-bearing. However, the disciples follow Jesus but do not understand Jesus' purpose. They constantly expect war. So, the Gospel is then read from Mark's full understanding and the disciples' flawed perspective. In this first volume of Jesus in a World of Colliding Empires, Keown backgrounds Mark and the political situations of the world at the time. He then unpacks Mark 1:1--8:29 as Jesus seeks to show the disciples he is Messiah while drawing out the deep irony of their incomprehension.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1532643861

ISBN 13

9781532643866

Book's by Mark DeYmaz

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email