Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage the New Flat World

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Book ISBN: 9780310267188

Author(s): Bob Roberts

Document type: Trade Cloth

Publisher: Unknown

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Reviews

It was good, but old...

Rating: 60%

If you are a reader, and haven't read this one, and then you are encouraged to read it, once you read it, it will be stuff you have read before. I liked the book, and I love what pastor Bob is doing on a glocal level. However, wish I would have read it when it first came out.

Matthew D. Hansen (Amazon.com)

Glocalization

Rating: 100%

If the church would follow these principles we would effectivelly reach the world for Christ.

Charles N. Rollins (Amazon.com)

Movilizing, Activiating and Connecting Individuals around the world!

Rating: 80%

The book is vital because it brings personal experience of a man that has put a side his old mental models and traditions in order to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. The book is not written in systematic style, but rather in a pragmatic way.

The author does a good job of engaging his readers. He develops a framework to describe the importance of focusing on a particular "people group" for the purpose of establishing true relationship, which in turn will produce transformation from the inside out.

Glocalization offers an exciting opportunity for those churches and individuals who are seeking a different approach in touching others people's life through relationship, respect and acceptance to impact this changing world for Christ.

Sergio Ramos (Amazon.com)

Cutting edge missiology

Rating: 100%

I truly enjoyed this book. It is not a typical "how to" missions book that merely confirms what probably you are already doing in your church. Bob Roberts pushes the boundaries. His perspective and approach to short-term missions is different from anything that I have ever read. From cover to cover, I felt as if my missiological practises and leadership as a pastor were being tested and refined.

Gordon W. Marchant (Amazon.com)

A Church Which You Must Understand

Rating: 80%

There is only a handful of people whose life demands a read and careful study. Bob Roberts is one of those persons. What his church has done is unique. It is one of the few churches in the United States that has taken cultural transformation global while maintaining an Evangelical message. This book reveals the heart of such a pastor and presents many practical points of application.
I'm puzzled by the critical review of Isaiah. He's disappointed by a local church only adopting a few locations? Bob teaches that churches need to learn to specialize, pick a city or country and develop a relationship-better, a friendship, and encourage another church to do the same thing. To try to everything is to do nothing.
Isaiah's opening line, "If you believe you can just tell people about Jesus without caring for their physical needs, you may want to read this book." suggests he hasn't read the book very well. The book is all about cultural impact which is completely about ministry to the whole person.
It is especially disappointing to see a reviewer use pejorative terms--"self indulgent" does not describe this book or Bob Roberts.
Obviously there is a vital issue at stake. Read the book.
I rate the book with 4 stars, because I would like for it to be a little more systematic in its approach. While not being a systematic treatise, it is the heartfelt cry of a pastor who is doing something very significant and inviting many others to go along on the journey. As I think about it, perhaps the lack of system is a plus in a post-modern world. I guess my professorial habits have found me out.

Samuel Carmack (Amazon.com)

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