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Moderator recommended reading

The Moderator Designate, Pamela Tankersley, recommends the following books as useful reading to stimulate thinking on the GA06 theme "Being Christ-centered and community-facing".

Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson The Externally Focused Church
Available from:

  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson, Auckland

Walter Brueggemann Cadences of Home : Preaching among exiles
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland
  • Theology House, Christchurch

Walter Brueggemann The Prophetic Imagination
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Carey Baptist College, Ayson Clifford Library, Penrose, Auckland
  • National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland

Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch The Shaping of Things to Come
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Carey Baptist College, Ayson Clifford Library, Penrose, Auckland
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland

Denham Grierson Transforming a People of God
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Carey Baptist College, Ayson Clifford Library, Penrose, Auckland
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland

Ann Hadfield Grassroots Mission : Holistic Mission in a Fractured World
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Carey Baptist College, Ayson Clifford Library, Penrose, Auckland
  • National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland
  • Auckland City Libraries
  • Dunedin Public Libraries
  • Eugene O’Sullivan Theological Library, Auckland
  • Hamilton City Libraries
  • Hastings District Libraries
  • Manukau Libraries
  • Massey University Library
  • Napier Public Library
  • Palmerston North City Library
  • Rotorua Public Library
  • Taupo Library
  • Tauranga City Libraries
  • Te Wananga o Raukawa & Te Pukapuka
  • Waitakere Library & Information Services
  • Wanganui District Library
  • Wellington City Libraries

Peter Kaldor et al Shaping a Future : Characteristics of Vital Congregations
Available from

  • Carey Baptist College, Ayson Clifford Library, Penrose, Auckland

Loren B Mead The Once and Future Church : Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland
  • Theology House, Christchurch

Jim Wallis God’s Politics : Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
Available from:

  • Hewitson Library, Knox College, Dunedin
  • Bible College of New Zealand Deane Memorial Library, Henderson
  • Auckland City Libraries
  • Christchurch City Libraries
  • Palmerston North City Library
  • Southland District Libraries
  • John Kinder Theological Library, Remuera Auckland
  • Tauranga City Libraries
  • Theology House, Christchurch
  • Waitakere Library & Information Services