Mar adentro

HOPE IS A PATHWAY - These are not easy times for hope. When one looks around one finds a lot of uncertainty and disillusionment. But it is precisely when human reality contradicts our expectations, that evangelical hope becomes more necessary. And the fundamental reason of Christian hope it is not in what we can do but in what God can do in us or through us. It is not a substitute to attain omnipotence that we seek. It is not a spare tyre to which we take recourse when we see that our spirit is low. It proposes to begin to see everything from another perspective. And there, we are not the...

El objetivo del Dr. Banks es revitalizar la experiencia de la comunidad cristiana en nuestros días y solucionar el alejamiento que existe entre la vida y la práctica en las iglesias actuales.

From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had...

"La iglesia existe por la misión, al igual que el fuego existe por la combustión". Con estas palabras de Emil Brunner, el autor nos recuerda que ser la iglesia es estar en misión. Después de describir las diferentes cautividades de la misión, que han subyugado al cristianismo de los Estados Unidos, el autor lucha para exponer una fuerte y comprometida practica de la misión, comenzando en las congregaciones locales y extendiéndose hasta la comunidad más amplia.Este libro de Introducción a la Misión, puede ayudar a estudiantes de seminario, y a grupos de estudio de laicos, a conocer...