The Church: God's Pilgrim People, by David Zac Niringiye
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Was the church Jesus' idea? From huge edifices to humble storefronts, from high church Anglicans to exuberant Pentecostals, from the Middle East to Asia to Africa―can this all be the church, so varied and far flung? From his roots in Africa, David Zac Niringiye takes us on the journey of a pilgrim people, helping us to appreciate what the church is at all times and in all places. This introduction provides a biblical theology that tells the story of the people and promise of God through Moses, of the kingdom of God in Christ, and work of his people by the Holy Spirit. Being people on a journey means we are strangers and foreigners, yet also a people with a purpose, with a mission. We are a people who live in hope, looking forward to the justice, peace and joy God has planned.
The Church: God's Pilgrim People, by David Zac Niringiye- Amazon Sales Rank: #1611064 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .60" w x 6.00" l, .66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Review "Every journey I have taken with Bishop Zac has been both challenging and life-giving. This book is no exception. Like a knowledgeable safari guide, Bishop Zac points out the highs and lows as he takes us on an extraordinary biblical journey through what it means to be the community of God's people―from creation to new creation. Godly discontent over the mismatch he has seen between much contemporary church and the biblical vision of a community of faith, hope and love drives Bishop Zac to ask us to take stock of our part of the community of God. To be read carefully, prayerfully and humbly by all who profess Christ's name, wherever they are in the world, so that the community of God may reveal Christ to the world, not hide Christ from the world." (David Williams, bishop of Basingstoke, UK)"Congratulations to David Zac! This is a brilliant piece of work. The subject is timely, coming at a time when the church is expanding rapidly, yet declining and disintegrating with equal speed. David Zac has captured both the rise and fall of God's community in a technical yet easily readable manner. The Church is theologically sound, historically accurate, but more importantly, culturally relevant for the church's new center of gravity―Africa. What comes out clearly is that the church is, as David Zac puts it, a community in the Spirit, a dwelling of God in God! No gates of hell can prevail against it. If you are interested in the development of the church, this is a great read. If you care little about the church, here is a must read." (David Oginde, presiding bishop, Christ Is the Answer Ministries (CITAM), Nairobi, Kenya)"David Zac Niringiye is for me a modern hero of the faith. He has been so helpful to our community of hundreds of students and all nations and ages at the heart of Oxford. When he gave up his role of bishop to work for the cause of justice in Uganda and beyond, some feared he might forget the church. But this brilliant book shows the opposite is true. He writes movingly about the people of God on the journey of God and invites us winsomely to join in the advancing kingdom of God. Get this book to get in touch with your destiny." (Charlie Cleverly, rector of St. Aldates Church, Oxford, UK)"As an evangelist among people of other faiths, I have struggled with the huge chasm between our understanding and teaching of who we are as God's people in the world and our practice of church. Reading this book will help us to define the essence of our existence as a people of God in the world. Bishop David Zac makes a bold clarification of a rather hazy view of the church as God's pilgrim people that has been clouded with our propensity to settle for mediocrity." (Canon Francis Omondi, All Saints Cathedral Nairobi, Anglican Church of Kenya, chairman of CMS Africa, director of the Sheepfold Ministries)"Here is a narrative-based theology of the church, the people of God, from the life experience and mind of an African theologian. It offers a prophetic challenge to common Christian confusions about and distortions of the church. Every Christian concerned about the state of the church should read it." (Roger E. Olson, Foy Valentine Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics, George W. Truett Seminary)"It is so refreshing to read what Bishop David Zac Niringiye, long-term friend and brother, has to say about the church. On the one hand I am personally warned of how easy it is for us, lost in the exuberance of our inventions and redefinition of the church, to lose our bearing with regards to God's purpose for the church. On the other, I am reminded of why the church today should be a continuing story, journey and witness of the people of God to his kingdom. In a contemporary age in which the identity of the church has been re-created in our image―be it ethnic, social, economic or whatever else, with all their attendant paraphernalia, Bishop Zac's clear word is a call for sober reflection regardless of our church tradition. Rather than just a lamentation of how church easily slides from being 'all about God' to 'all about us' or even just 'me,' this is a prophetic call to rediscover and return to God's original purpose for the church in relation to his kingdom. I commend this book to all who long for the church to be the church as communities of God's people 'announcing and demonstrating the kingdom of God by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit.'" (Femi B. Adeleye, director of church partnerships, Global Centre Christian Commitments, World Vision International)"I can think of few people from whom I would rather hear about the church than from David Zac Niringiye from Uganda. He is biblically focused, intellectually careful, diagnostically truthful, courageously honest, emotionally bold, relationally sincere and publicly fearless. Hearing his voice and seeing his life as a brother and mentor has changed my life. This book will hopefully open that experience to many others as well. If the body of Christ is to be God's light and salt in the real world, we need Bishop Zac to confront and inspire us to new and vigorous life." (Mark Labberton, president, Fuller Theological Seminary)
About the Author David Zac Niringiye (PhD, Edinburgh) is the retired assistant bishop of the diocese of Kampala, Church of Uganda. Currently a fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uganda Christian University, he has a distinguished career as a theologian, mission leader, pastor, HIV and AIDS activist, and organizational development consultant. Called "the foremost evangelical Christian thinker/theologian today," Niringiye teaches at churches and conferences in Africa, Europe and North American while continuing his work of peace and social-political justice in Uganda. Niringiye is married to Theodora, a marriage, family, trauma and HIV/AIDS counselor. Together they have three children.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Bit Meandering, But It Makes Important Points By James B. Pate David Zac Niringiye is an African theologian and former bishop in the Church of Uganda. In The Church: God’s Pilgrim People, Niringiye critiques the current state of the church (not the Church of Uganda specifically, but the Christian church in general) and offers a biblical history of the church in order to define what the church is and what it is supposed to be.Niringiye argues, understandably, that the church falls short of what it should be. As Niringiye notes, it is a problem when many people in Ruwanda attend church, yet hate their enemies and seek to kill them. There is an obvious disconnect there. The Western church does not escape Niringiye’s criticism, either, for he is critical of the disparities in wealth in the worldwide church. For Niringiye, the church has largely failed to be the community of love that it should be, or to be salt and light in the world.For Niringiye, the church itself is not the Kingdom of God, and yet the church relates to the Kingdom of God: Christians are citizens of the Kingdom, they pray for it to come, and they do their part to bring the world under the rule of Christ. The church is present in the Old Testament, Niringiye narrates, as God sought to establish a community of worshipers through Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. The successor to Old Testament Israel, according to Niringiye, is the Christian church. Niringiye strikes me as supersessionist in his view, here.Niringiye believes that the church should be a missionary church, proclaiming the good news of what Christ has done. At the same time, Niringiye also does not preclude the possibility that God may be involved in non-Christian cultures and the lives of non-Christians.Another point that Niringiye makes is that Christians from different ethnicities can learn from one another, and that this can give them a fuller appreciation of Jesus and God’s love. As an example, Niringiye states that Jewish Christians in the first century considered Jesus the Messiah, whereas Greek-speaking Christians called Jesus lord, “the titles that Greek Christians used for their cult divinities (Acts 11:19-21)” (page 183). Both learned from one another, Niringiye states.There were cases in which I was not entirely sure if I agreed with Niringiye, but what he said was thought-provoking. On page 41, for example, in talking about Moses, Niringiye contrasts the God of Israel with the gods of Egypt. According to Niringiye, the God of Israel was “relational, in-community, in himself and with humankind and creation”, whereas the Egyptian gods were “distant” and “impersonal”. (This is in terms of how they conceptualized their deities.) Was this the case? Was the God of Israel conceptually more relational than the gods of Egypt? Some believe that the God of Israel was different from ancient Near Eastern deities, whereas others highlight the similarities, seeing the God of Israel as just another ancient Near Eastern deity, not fundamentally different from how other ancient Near Easterners conceptualized their deities. I am skeptical when Jewish and Christians, to support their religion, maintain that their religion was superior to other religions in the past; at the same time, I do not rule out completely that ancient Judaism and Christianity may have been better, in areas, from a humanitarian perspective. Some would say it was worse, in areas. Niringiye’s comments, and similar comments in the book, provoked thought about this issue.Niringiye talked about Christians helping to bring the world under the dominion of Christ, and that frightened me, a bit. It sounded somewhat like Christian Reconstructionism, or what elements of the religious right want to do. I respect that Niringiye was talking about missions, love, inclusion, and social justice, but, since he was a religious leader in Uganda, I wondered what his stance was towards the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill. I will not try to define his position myself, but I will provide two links:http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/decemberweb-only/151-42.0.htmlhttp://oblogdeeoblogda.me/2013/02/16/ugandan-bishop-attacked-by-anti-gay-makere-university-students/The book is a bit meandering. It sometimes speaks in generalities rather than fleshing out what it is trying to say. Still, in its own way, it was an edifying read, and it made important points.I received a complimentary review copy of this book from the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.
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