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Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church
Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church
Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church
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Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church

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Each generation of believers faces numerous challenges to the mission of the church.

While the church does not have control over the large issues of each generation, its response to them is a matter of Kingdom stewardship.

J. D. Payne gets to the heart of the twelve most important problems we face today. In Pressure Points J. D. helps us see how we can prevent these global issues from pushing the church off its biblical moorings, so we can absorb the pressures while responding in a way that remains faithful to the church’s calling and mission. Come to see that despite all the challenges, some of the greatest days for Kingdom advancement are ahead of us. 


 

Topics include:
  • Unreached people groups
  • Truth and pluralism
  • The West as a mission field
  • The majority world church
  • World religions
  • International migration
  • Globalization
  • Poverty
  • Urbanization
  • Children and youth
  • Healthcare
  • Oral learners
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThomas Nelson
Release dateJul 23, 2013
ISBN9781418550752
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J.D. Payne

J. D. Payne (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a writer, speaker, church planter and currently serves as the pastor of church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. He previously served with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an associate professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting. J. D. has written extensively in the areas of missions, evangelism and church growth and he speaks frequently for churches, networks, conferences and mission agencies. He is the author of books such as Missional House Churches, The Barnabas Factors, Discovering Church Planting, Strangers Next Door, Kingdom Expressions and Pressure Points. In addition to these works, he and Mark Terry coauthored Developing a Strategy for Missions and he coedited Missionary Methods with Craig Ott. J. D. has pastored five churches in Kentucky and Indiana and has worked with four church planting teams. He formerly served as the executive vice president for administration for the Evangelical Missiological Society and as the book review editor for the Great Commission Research Journal. He and his wife Sarah and their three children live in Birmingham, Alabama.

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