global trends, fruitful practices, and emerging issues among Muslims with CD Woodberry, John Dudley 1934- text cau Pasadena, CA William Carey Library 2008 monographic eng

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xiii, 426 p. ; 24 cm. Global trends : soils, seed, sowers and first fruits -- Assessing the soils -- Unploughed ground -- The imperishable seed -- Sowers from the global south -- Sister sowers and gatherers -- First fruits and future harvests -- Fruitful practices : sowing, watering, gathering, reproducing -- Introduction to fruitful practices -- Sowing (witnessing) -- Watering (discipling) -- Gathering (reproducing fellowships) -- Equipping stewards (leadership development) -- Gathering laborers (team building) -- Emerging issues : birds, rocks, sun, thorns, and good soil -- Factors which influence the type of incarnational identity that -- Jesus followers choose -- Factors which facilitate communities of believers leading to movements -- How and why of communicating the Bible in stories -- Keys to fruitful joint ministry between national (MBB) -- Leaders and fellowship partners -- Jesus followers and funding -- Islamism and receptivity to Jesus -- Use of the Qur'an -- Implications for witness of folk beliefs and practices -- Developing fruitful teams -- Beyond tentmaking in a post 9/11 world -- The roles of suffering and martyrdom -- Recapturing a missiology of suffering. edited by J. Dudley Woodberry. Missions to Muslims BV2625 .F75 2008 266.0088 See 2008 c.3 9780878080038 (pbk.) 2008014501 (paper back) DLC 150206 20250925120822.0 15240337