Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Read This First!
Part 1- Setting the Stage
Chapter 1- Insider Movements: Coming to Terms with Terms
Chapter 2- Historical Development of the Insider Paradigm
Chapter 3- Muslim Followers of Jesus?
Chapter 4- When God's Kingdom Grows Like Yeast: Frequently Asked Questions about Jesus Movements within Muslim Communities
Chapter 5- Myths and Misunderstands about Insider Movements
Chapter 6- Seeing Inside Insider Missiology: Exploring Our Theological Lenses and Presuppositions
Part 2- Examples, Testimonies, and Analysis
Section 1- Examples and Testimonies
Chapter 7- Jesus Movements: Discovering Biblical Faith in the Most Unexpected Places
Chapter 8- When "Christian" Does Not Translate
Chapter 9- Living and Discipling in the Hindu World
Chapter 10- "Why I Am Not a Christian": A Personal Statement
Chapter 11- The New Buddhists: How Buddhists Can Follow Christ
Chapter 12- Comments on the Insider Movement
Chapter 13- My Enemy...My Brother: A Palestinian Christian Meets His Muslim Brothers
Chapter 14- And the Spirit Fell upon Them: Testimonies of the Holy Spirit's Activity in One Insider Movement
Section 2- Case Study Analysis
Chapter 15- Jesus Movement: A Case Study from Eastern Africa
Chapter 16- Insider Movements among Muslims: A Focus on Asia
Chapter 17- Pandita Ramabai and the Meanings of Conversion
Chapter 18- Christ Followers in India Flourishing- but Outside the Church: A Review of Herbert E. Hoefer's Churchless Christianity
Chapter 19- Ecclesial Indentities of Socioreligious "Insiders": A Case Study of Fellowship among Hindu and Sikh Communities
Part 3- Biblical and Theological Perspectives
Chapter 20- The Kingdom of God: A Biblical Paradigm for Mission
Chapter 21- The Old Testament and Insider Movements
Chapter 22- Conversion in the New Testament
Chapter 23- Jesus Living and Discipling among the Lost
Chapter 24- Jesus in Samaria: A Paradigm for Church Planting among Muslims
Chapter 25- The Key to Insider Movements: The "Devoted" of Acts
Chapter 26- The Incarnational Model of Jesus, Paul, and the Jerusalem Council
Chapter 27- Acts 15: An Inside Look
Chapter 28- The Integrity of the Gospel and Insider Movements
Chapter 29- The Supremacy of Scripture: The Transcultural and Timeless Authority for Local Theology in Global Conversation
Chapter 30- Church in Context
Chapter 31- All Things Are Yours
Part 4- Contextualization, Religion, and Syncretism
Section 1- Contexualization
Chapter 32- Liberating Christ from Christians, Christianity, and the Church
Chapter 33- The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture
Chapter 34- A Necessarily Wary Enterprise?: North American Evangelicals and Contextualization
Chapter 35- A Third Reformation? Movements of the Holy Spirit beyond Christendom
Chapter 36- The Incarnation, Communication, and Insider Movements
Section 2- Religion and Syncretism
Chapter 37- Reflections on Religion
Chapter 38- (De) Franchising Missions
Chapter 39- Considering Religion(s): What Does the Word Really Mean?
Chapter 40- Religious Syncretism as a Syncretistic Concept: The Inadequacy of the "World Religions" Paradigm in Cross-cultural Encounter
Chapter 41- Contextualization, Syncretism, and the Demonic in Indigenous Movements
Chapter 42- Avoiding Syncretism: The Testimony of a Jesus-following Buddhist
Part 5- Approaches in Witness
Chapter 43- Shall We Try Unbeaten Paths in Working for Moslems?
Chapter 44- An Approach to Witness
Chapter 45- Contextualization among Muslims: Reusing Common Pillars
Chapter 46- Christian Attitudes toward Islam and Muslims: A Kerymatic Approach
Chapter 47- Roles of "Alongsiders" in Insider Movements: Contemporary Examples and Biblical Reflections
Chapter 48- Become Like, Remain Like (Take Two)
Chapter 49- Evangelizing Whole Families
Chapter 50- Planting Churches: Learning the Hard Way
Part 5 Study Questions
Part 6- Concerns and Misunderstandings
Chapter 51- The C1-C6 Spectrum after Fifteen Years: Misunderstandings, Limitations, and Recommendations
Chapter 52- Responding to Christian Concerns
Interview with Brother Yusuf
Chapter 53- Muslim Followers of Jesus and the Muslim Confession of Faith
Chapter 54- "Is Allah God?": Five Reasons I Am Convinced
Chapter 55- In the World but Not of It: Insider Movements and Freedom from the Demonic
Chapter 56- Possible Pitfalls fo Jesus Movements: Lessons from History
Chapter 57- Where We Agree...And Don't?
Part 7- Identity
Chapter 58- Insider Movements: Honoring God-given Identity and Community
Chapter 59- Dual Identity and the Church in the Book of Acts
Chapter 60- Consuming Peanuts in the USA and India: Reflecting on the Controversy over Insider Movements
Chapter 61- Heart Allegiance and Negotiated Identity
Chapter 62- Searching for Models of Individual Identity
Chapter 63- Societal Factors Impacting Socioreligious Identities of Muslims Who Follow Jesus
Chatper 64- God's Creativity in Drawing Muslims to Jesus
A Look into the Future
Appendix 1- The Samaritan Religion
Appendix 2- World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Evangelical Relationships Commitment
Appendix 3- Review of A Theological Analysis of the Insider Movement Paradigm from Four Perspectives by Doug Coleman
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
