Sent: Living the Missional Nature of the Church

by Ed Stetzer

5 Sessions For Young Adults Throughout history, God has always been a sender. After all, He sent us His son, who in turn sends us. With Living the Missional Nature of the Church, Ed Stetzer issues a call to a new kind of missional living, one that engages culture, enables Christians to live in the world while not being of the world, and motivates the purposeful sharing of the story of Christ. Uncover the meaning of missional and explore where you fit into the overall purpose of the church. * Study Recovering the meaning of missional * Session 1: God the Sender- Discovering the root of the mission * Session 2: Kingdom Come- Living in the already, but not yet * Session 3: The Church and the Yo-Yo- Looking out versus looking in * Session 4: Culture Clash- Being in but not of the world * Session 5: Living Sent- Taking steps in the right direction LifeWay Church Resources Pub. August 2008

127 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Ed Stetzer, PhD, holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair for Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and is the dean of the School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership at Wheaton College. He also serves as the executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton. Stetzer is a prolific author and a well-known conference speaker. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches; trained pastors and church planters on six continents; holds two master’s degrees and two doctorates; and has written or cowritten more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles.

Stetzer is a contributing editor for Christianity Today and a columnist for Outreach magazine. He is frequently interviewed for or cited in news outlets such as USA Today and CNN. He is also the executive editor of The Gospel Project, a bible study curriculum used by more than one million people each week.

Stetzer cohosts BreakPoint This Week, a radio broadcast that airs on more than four hundred media outlets. He serves as the interim teaching pastor at The Moody Church in Chicago. Stetzer lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife, Donna, and their three daughters.



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