Picturing Christian Witness New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Images and Mission The Power of Images Wanted: New Images of Mission An Attempt at Another Approach In the Chapters That Follow . . . 2. Announcing Good News The Social Setting of Christian Witness An Apprenticeship in Mission Proclaimers of Good News in Acts Representing an Idea: Announcers of Good News Striking an Evangelical Posture 3. Sharing Christ with Friends From Public to Private Three Paths to Discipleship Disciple-Making in John Back to the Synoptics: Picturing the Image Focusing on the Friends 4. Interpreting the Gospel Communicating Good News across Cultures Pentecost: Inaugurating the Church`s Mission across Social Boundaries Pushing the Cultural Envelope in Acts The Vanishing Translator Mission As Interpretation after Acts 5. Shepherding Disciples As Shepherds The Old Testament Background But Is It Mission? New Testament Approaches to Shepherding Peter the Shepherd Missionary Poimenics 6. Building and Planting Paul the Apostle Interpreting Paul`s Mission Building and Planting An Apostolic Model in a Post-Apostolic Age 7. New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission A Brief Recapitulation Grasping the Big Picture