Book: Angrosino, Michael. Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 2000. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Bandy, Thomas G. Facing Reality: A Tool for Congregational Mission Assessment. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Barna, George. The Second Coming of the Church. Nashville, TN: Word, 2001 (246
pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: ________. The Habits of Highly Effective Churches: Being Strategic in Your God-Given
Ministry. Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2000. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Bosch, David Jacoby, and Alan Neely, eds. Believing in the Future: Toward A Missiology of Western Culture. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity
Press International, 1995. (80 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts on Theology of Mission. Orbis
Books, 1991, (587 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Clapp, Rodney. A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Clegg, Tom, and Warren Bird. Lost in America: How You and Your Church Can Impact the World Next Door. Loveland, Colo.: Group, 2001.
(176 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Flett, John, ed. Collision Crossroads: the Intersection of Modern Western Culture
with the Christian Gospel. DeepSight, 1998. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. Piscataway, N.J.:
Rutgers University Press, 1993. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Frazee, Randy. Connecting the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001. (240 pages) Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Guder, Darrell L. The Continuing Conversion of the Church. The Gospel and Our Culture. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000. (222 pages)
Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. The Incarnation of the Church's Witness: Christian Mission and Modern Culture. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International,
2000. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. The Gospel and Our Culture. Grand Rapids: Wm.
B. Eerdmans, 1998. (288 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1991. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Hohstadt, Thomas. Dying to Live: The 21st Century Church. Odessa, Tex.: Damah Media, 1999. (199 pages) Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Hunsberger, George R., and Craig Van Gelder, eds. The Church between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America. Grand
Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Leslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural
Plurality. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998. (344 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Jinkins, Michael. The Church Faces Death: Ecclesiology in a Post-Modern Context.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Jones, Tony. Postmodern Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, 2001. (239 pages) Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Kelly, Gerard. RetroFuture: Rediscovering Our Roots, Recharting Our Routes. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000. (228 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: King, Ursula, ed. Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age. London: Cassell, 1998. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Kraft, Charles. Christianity in Culture, Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1979. Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Larkin, William J., and Joel F. Williams, eds. Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
1998. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Laurie, Greg. The Upside Down Church. Wheaton: Tyndale, 1998. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted
10/19/2001)
Book: Malphurs, Aubrey and Joe Aldrich. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive
Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal. 2d ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2001. (352 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted
10/31/2001)
Book: McManus, Erwin Raphael. An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in
Mind. Loveland, CO: Group. 2001. (224 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Merrill, Dean. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Church: Finding a Better Way to Influence Our Culture. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997.
Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Miller, Donald. Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1997. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Nash, Robert N., and Loren Mead. An 8-Track Church in a CD World: The Modern Church in a Postmodern World. Macon, Ga.: Smyth &
Helwys Publishing, 1997. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Nesson, Craig L. Beyond Maintenance to Mission: A Theology of the Congregation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999. (128 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1986. (160 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1989. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995. (192 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Niebuhr, H. Richard. Christ and Culture. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1986. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Osborn, Lawrence. Restoring the Vision: The Gospel and Modern Culture. Oxford: Mowbray,
1995. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Payne, Bishop Claude E., and Hamilton Beazley. Reclaiming the Great Commission: A Practical Model for Transforming Denominations and Congregations.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. (288 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Ramachandra, Vinoth. The Recovery of Mission: Beyond the Pluralist Paradigm. Currently out of print. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Regele, Mike and Mark Schulz. Death of the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996.
(292 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Riddell, Mike, Mark Pierson, and Cathy Kilpatrick. The Prodigal Project. Reading, U.K.: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
2001. (168 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. Threshold of the Future: Reforming the Church in the Post-Christian West.
Dulles, VA: International Publishers Marketing, 1998. (160 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Roxburgh, Alan J. The Missionary Congregation: Leadership and Liminality. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1997. (64
pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Sacks, Jonathan. The Persistence of Faith: Religion, Morality and Society in a Secular
Age. London, UK: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1991. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Schaller, Lyle. The New Reformation: Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________. What Have We Learned? The Best Thinking on Congregational Life. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Schwartz, Christian A. Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities
of Healthy Churches. Carol Stream, IL: ChurchSmart Resources, 1996. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Schwartz, Christian A. Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities
of Healthy Churches. Carol Stream, IL: ChurchSmart Resources, 1996. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Snyder, Howard. Models of the Kingdom. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1991. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Sweet, Leonard I. Carpe Manana: Is Your Church Ready to Seize Tomorrow? Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 2001. (208 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: ________. Postmodern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century Church. Nashville:
Broadman & Holman, 2000. (224 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: ________. Aquachurch: Essential Leadership Arts for Piloting Your Church in Today’s
Fluid Culture. Loveland, Colo.: Group Publishing, 1999. (269 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: ________. The Evangelical Tradition in America. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997.
Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Stamps, Dennis L., and David Ford, eds. Essentials of Christian Community: Essays for Daniel W. Hardy. Herndon, Va.: T & T Clark,
2000. (380 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Tomlinson, Dave. The Post-Evangelical. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1998 (160 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Van Engen, Charles. Mission on the Way (Issues in Mission Theology). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker
Books, 1994. Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: ________. God's Missionary People. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1991. (192 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Van Gelder, Craig. The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000. (207 pages) Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: ________., ed. Confident Witness—Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999.
(313 pages) Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: Wagner, E. Glenn, and Steve Halliday. Escape from Church, Inc. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999. (256 pages) Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Book: White, James Emery Rethinking the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997. Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Wright, Tom. New Tasks for a Renewed Church. London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Recommended
by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/31/2001)
Book: Yoder, John H. Authentic Transformation: A New Vision for Christ and Culture. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Recommended by Earl
Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
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