Description:
The church is struggling to find relevance in today's world. Society is changing, with currents swirling like a perfect storm-a clash of sacred and secular. Christians must once again take on the task of being a missional people.
The aim of GO is simple: to mobilize and unleash Christians--maybe one last time--as a missional people in their world, a gospel voice and a gospel presence, with the primary task of making disciples and sharing the only Good News that can save the world and humanity.
The future is not bleak, but bright with divine power available to Christians through the Holy Spirit, where they can once again become missional and live out their calling to be the transforming agents in the world. Not just across oceans, but across streets and cities.
At its heart, GO involves recovering essential characteristics not only relevant for engaging a postmodern world but also timeless in their fidelity to the heart of the gospel, which is the advancement of the coming kingdom. This inspirational resource will help Christians navigate these changes more effectively.
Brief description:
James Armstrong has thirty years of experience as a pastor, professor, and missionary, serving throughout the US, Honduras, Colombia, Ukraine, Belarus, Haiti, Turkey, and Kyrgyzstan. A traveler to twenty-three countries, James has served as a speaker or seminar leader in more than thirty churches, thirty-four retreats, and sixteen conferences and seminars across the world, reaching more than ten thousand people with his challenge to be the Church on mission in the world. He earned a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership in Emerging Culture from George Fox University, and he is currently working on his sixth degree, a PhD in Systematic Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.