Who is Eddie?
Dr. Eddie Gibbs, Director for the Institute for the Study of Emerging Churches at the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts and a senior professor in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California USA. During the past four decades of ministry I served in England, Chile, and since 1984 here in the US. For the past seven years I have focused my studies on the challenges facing the churches in the North and West as they have seen the collapse of Christendom. This study has resulted in three books:ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry, InterVarsity Press, 2000.
LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture, InterVarsity Press, 2005.
Co-authored with Ryan Bolger, Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures, Baker Academic, 2005.
Dr. Gibbs,
Earlier in the summer i asked if i can have an interview with with, and you accepted. However, i did sent the questions by email, and it looks they have not reach to you.
Interview with Dr. Gibbs
Becoming Biblically effective, while changing for the common good
1. How can the indigenous pastor (and church) remain true to the Scriptures, but at the same time, true and effective within major cultural changing? (Specifically on the Eastern European countries)
2. How can a church become mission focus, when the leaders, does not grasp the need to become relevant to the 21 Century mission both at local and institutional level? What are the dangers of this reality, and how can one escape such territory?
3. In the Romanian culture elitism among the evangelical leaders plays a critical role. Does this attitude affect missionary perspectives of the local church? (And how?)
4. What is the best method to educate a local church for mission and in what format? Discuss structure, content and biblical perspective.
5. How would the Emergent Church leaders answer the question of cultural adaptation from the non-western church leaders?
6. What would be the missiological approach of the Emergent Church in planting churches out side the Western map? What methods will they employ?
7. In the dynamic of the globalization process how does the Emergent Church build on the past and offers durable solutions to the world wide Church for the future?
With a thankful heart in Christ Jesus, Cosmin Pascu, Romania
October 25th, 2007 at 1:55 am[…] at Biblical Seminary, welcomes you to a conversation with author and missional church leader, Eddie Gibbs, on Friday, May 2 from 9:30 AM to 1 PM. A luncheon Q & A with Dr. Gibbs will be included. […]
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