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Barefoot Church Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture

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ISBN-10: 0310492270

ISBN-13: 9780310492276

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Authors: Brandon Hatmaker

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People are hungry to make a difference in their community, yet most don't know where to start. In fact, 'serving the least' is often one of the most neglected biblical mandates in the church. Barefoot Church shows readers how today's church can be a catalyst for individual, collective, and social renewal in any context. Whether pastors or laypeople, readers will discover practical ideas that end up being as much about the Gospel and personal transformation as they are about serving the poor. Here they will see how the organizational structure of the church can be created or redesigned for mission in any context.Drawing from his own journey, Brandon Hatmaker proves to readers that serving…    
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Book details

List price: $11.99
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.110
Language: English

Brandon Hatmaker is pastor of Austin New Church (ANC), co-founder of Restore Austin, and a missional strategist with Missio (www.missio.us). After years of serving in the megachurch, Brandon and his wife, Jen, refocused their ministry on church planting and mobilizing the church to meet the needs of the poor and marginalized. Together, ANC and Restore Austin have developed a unique network of churches and non-profits that serve in a collective effort to impact their city and world.

Why A Barefoot Church
Doing More
The Barefoot Story
Making it Personal
Foundations for Structure
Beyond The Social Gospel
There is no reason for poverty today
We literally have every resource to abolish it
Our only need is the people willing to give it
The Church of tomorrow
Hollywood and Justice: Where's the Church?
Never been more culturally relevant. (Church Growth)
A discussion of changing the posture of church to the unbelieving world through observing the natural 'Missional Flow' as discussed by Hugh Halter's 'Tangible Kingdom'
The Danger with Missional without Mission-Minded:
Missional Jargin (defining missional, mission, and compassion)
Missional is not a Fad
It's Biblical
Service is the key to keeping it outward
Observing what's next on the missional landscape
Why the mission to engage need is critical (a) biblical (b) continuous
Balancing Gathering and Sending of the Church (finding the crisis)
Both/And: Key to our strategy (Hugh Halter)
Our gathering Culture
Need: Spiritual, Emotional (relational), and Physical -- Mother Teresa
Strategy of Exposing, Experiencing, and Engaging needs in community
Tension And Structuring For Serving (Compassion Ministry)
Structure of staff meetings
Personnel and Salaries
Structuring through tension
The sacrifice of tension
The difference between self-less service and self-service
Evaluating our motives
Service-Minded Community
Mission and staying 'sent'
Decentralized leadership
Illustrating the 'love your neighbor, serve your city' model
Balancing Incarnational Community with Missional Community
Evangelism And Serving (Compassion Ministry)
Two Inextricable Links: Gospel and Serving the Poor
Posture of Service and the walls it breaks down
Stories of those coming to faith through service and returning to faith through relationship/service
Discipleship And Serving (Compassion Ministry)
Go and make disciples
What does that mean?
Selfless Service of a Disciple: Serving with a REAL heart to gain nothing
Obedience, Self-Sacrifice, and Sacrificial giving
'Nothing of great significance comes without great sacrifice'
The strategy of doing what you least want to do
Real life transformation
Serving And Measuring Success
Changing what we evaluate
Faithfulness verses Completed tasks
Trusting God with the Results
People not Programs
Sustainability: The New Idol
Planting Churches
Kingdom Partnership And Serving Together
What is Kingdom: Really? Do we know?
Keys to the Kingdom
Non-Profit Partnerships
Serving Together: Eliminates fear
Planting Together
Networking Together
Mega and Micro Church partnerships
What's Next?
Re-Structuring for Service: Starting Slow
Structuring for Service: Starting Over
Maintaining Unity: Serving in a consumer culture without judgment
Model for Multiplication and Reproducing