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| 6. | African Initiatives in Christianity: The Growth, Gifts and Diversities of Indigenous African Churches - A Challenge to the Ecumenical Movement (Risk Book Series, No. 83)
Paperback (73 pages) by John S. Pobee (World Council of Churches)
In the continent where Christianity is experiencing its most rapid growth, a great deal of this expansion is taking place in churches founded by Africans for Africans. These churches are often referred to as 'independent' or 'indigenous' churches, to distinguish them from the 'historic' or 'mission-founded' churches planted during the colonial period by evangelists from Europe and North America. Diverse as they are, the attractiveness of these African Initiatives in Christianity (AICs) stems from the serious attempt they make to express and live out their faith in genuinely African cultural forms and styles. In this new book, two African theologians and church leaders -- one from an historic church, one from an AIC -- offer an insightful introduction into this phenomenon. While their main focus is on what the growth of African Initiatives in Christianity implies for the future of the ecumenical movement in Africa and around the world, they also examine some key teachings of the AICs and trace their roots in African church history since the first century.
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| 7. | By Grace You Have Been Saved: Bible Studies on Healing And Reconciliation
Paperback (202 pages) (World Council of Churches)
This is a collection of Bible studies encouraging discussion centring on the topics of healing, reconciliation, community, calling and mission. Commentators from many nations and cultures provide well-informed study aids and suggestions for further exploration by adult groups and children's classes, drawing on passages from both the Old and New Testaments. These texts from scripture have been selected to provide illumination of the theme of the World Council of Churches' conference on world mission and evangelism, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2005. The context of today's world is recognised by the authors - a context of economic globalisation, exclusion and violence. At the same time, the authors reaffirm and proclaim the hope of the gospel: "By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your doing; it is the gift of God" (Eph. 2:8). Church groups throughout the world are invited to join in the conversation undertaken in Athens, and in the ministries of reconciliation and healing to which all Christian communities are called.
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| 9. | Worshipping Ecumenically: Orders of Service from Global Meetings With Suggestions for Local Use
Spiral-bound (183 pages) (World Council of Churches)
A handbook of annotated orders of worship from major international ecumenical events, which can be effectively adapted for use in local settings. A comprehensive introduction offers a brief history of ecumenical worship, suggestions about how to use music from various regions and cultures, and comments on worship space, worship leadership and the use of symbolism and symbolic elements in worship. Time and again people attending a World Council of Churches Assembly or a similar global ecumenical gathering testify that their most striking experience is taking part in worship that draws from the full range of ancient and contemporary Christian traditions around the world.
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