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Annotated Bibliography Van Edgen

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Annotated Bibliography
Robert Minor
Regent University

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Van Edgen, C.E., God's Missionary People: Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church. Ada: Baker Academics. 1991 Van Edgen focuses his theme on the local church. All evangelism starts in the local church and then is spread throughout the world. It’s time that the local church moved forward from just talking about missions and start applying them to the teaching of Jesus. Van Edgen makes if rather clear that he local church needs to understand that evangelism and missions is about outreach. The church needs to take the initiative and step back and reevaluate missions and correct the prospective the local congregation has developed about outreach.
Just as Jesus lived in the community so must the local church. The missionary Church …show more content…

Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship (p. 272). Graand Rapids: Baker Books. 2010 This book was written for the Christian missionolist that wants to do away with todays perception of today’s culturized theories of evangelism and outreach. Alan and Debra Hirsh make the reader think about being a child of God. Hirsh hits home when he suggest that churches in the western world needs to step back and evaluate and examine what we are doing. Are we really chasing after Jesus in our worship service or are we continuing to live the American dream? Hirsh demonstrates that you do not have to be an overseas missional minded disciple. In every aspect we should be living for Christ and glorifying God in everything we do. As Christians our focus and faith and our discipleship should be found only in Jesus. Hirsh explains that in our modern day churches there is too much subjectivity about Jesus. We make Jesus who we want him to be. We must without hesitation go back to the Biblical definition of who the “Son of Man” is.

Ogden, G., Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time (p. 203). IVP

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