John Stott was known for his insistence that Christians must allow their faith to influence every area of their lives. Now a book that continues his legacy of radical discipleship has won a Christianity Today Book Award. Living Radical Discipleship, edited by Laura S. Meitzner Yoder and published by Langham Publishing, was crowned the winner in the ‘Christian Living & Discipleship’ category.
Author Hwa Yung explains the reasoning behind his new book, Leadership or Servanthood? Walking in the Steps of Jesus. This powerful work calls into question the Church's emphasis on leadership and leadership training.
To all our readers, we wish you a Happy New Year! Please look back with us on the many excellent resources that were released in 2020.
Keith Fraser-Smith reviews The Missiology Behind the Story, a book that is full of optimism, reversing the long-held pessimism of dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. Indigenous ministries, leadership training and the growth in numbers of those coming to faith from non-Christian backgrounds is transforming a once bleak picture. Find out more about this timely book that provides a wealth of stimulating reading here.
Outside the Majority World the church is in decline. Understandably, they are on the lookout for ideas that work and bring success. But here is the irony. They tend to keep looking for these ideas from other places where the church is in decline! Why not turn to places where churches are on the rise and people are coming to faith in Christ in huge numbers – like in so many places in the Majority World? Is there not something we can learn from them?
Wayne Johnston, Langham Literature Distribution Assistant, gives us an encouraging insight into his work providing customer service to people across the Majority World, and a wonderful reminder that we all have our own part to play in bringing God's Kingdom to Earth.
Not quite the Nobel Peace Prize, but a significant moment for Langham Scholar and newly published author with Langham Monographs, Rula Khoury Mansour. On 22nd June 2019, the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel presented her with an award for her years of studying the root causes of conflict in their churches and wider society, and seeking to build processes of reconciliation and peace building.
Imad Shehadeh is author of God With Us and Without Us, Volume 1, here he shares some significant aspects of his life and journey with the triune God.
