The Offensive Church

Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity

Bryan C. Loritts (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2023
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0597-2 (ISBN)

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Crises around race have put the church in a reactive, defensive posture, but Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity that pushes beyond mere diversity so that the church becomes the aroma of Christ to our culture and gains ground against the demonic foothold of racism in all its forms.

Crises around race have put the church in a defensive posture, always reacting to racial conflicts in society. But Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity, where we push beyond mere diversity and into a biblical vision for ethnic unity.
Bryan Loritts calls Christians to proactively and intentionally live out the embodied reality of a people at one with one another. We play offense by practicing a robust gospel, preparing reliable leadership, and providing relational environments so that the church becomes the aroma of Christ to our culture and gains ground against the demonic foothold of racism in all its forms.

Bryan C. Loritts (DMin, Liberty University) is teaching pastor of the Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina. He has dedicated his life and ministry to seeing the multiethnic church become the new normal in our society. He is also vice president for regions for the Send Network, the church planting arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, where he is responsible for training church planters in multiethnic church planting. He has been a featured speaker at the Global Leadership Summit and Catalyst. He is the award-winning author of eight books, and he and his wife, Korie, have three adult children.

Introduction: What's Going On?

1. Playing Offense

2. Seeing Through the Fog

3. Communal Identity and Ethnic Unity

4. The Practices of Ethnic Unity

5. Beware of a New Vision with an Old Culture

6. Proclaiming a Robust Gospel

7. Practicing a Robust Gospel

8. Reliable Leadership

9. Relational Environments

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2023
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-5140-0597-2 / 1514005972
ISBN-13	978-1-5140-0597-2 / 9781514005972
Zustand	Neuware