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Highly Recommended Books
Author: David C. Lewis
Price: 2,200 yen
David Lewis’s excellent and well-researched understanding of the folk religion of Japanese culture and how the gospel can be relevantly shared with Japanese. This is a book that will be a valuable asset for anyone reaching Japanese.
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Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
Author: Neil Cole
Price: 2,500 yen (Hardcover)
Cole shows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed – restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms,and neighborhoods. Organic Church offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it. ————————————
Cultivating a Life for God: Multiplying Disciples Through Life Transformation Groups
Author: Neil Cole
Price: 1,300 yen
This book outlines how you can use Life Transformation Groups (LTGs) to simply grow and develop disciples. ————————-
Overcoming Spiritual Barriers in Japan: Identifying Strongholds and Redemptive Gifts
Author: Keith Webb
Price: 400 yen
This book examines the invisible spiritual reality behind the 17th century persecution of Christians and the subsequent spiritual strongholds that were established. These spiritual and cultural barriers are still effectively holding the Japanese people in spiritual bondage. Though this evangelical survey you will learn the historical reasons Japanese are resistant to the gospel, three spiritual strongholds of today, how you can overcome these strongholds, and three redemptive gifts the Holy Spirit waits to release.
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CPI 2007 National Conference Resources CD-Rom - Price: 200 yen.
Other Books and Material Resources
Natural Church Development – Christian Schwarz 2,000 yen.
Natural Church Development JPN – Christian Schwarz 1,700 yen.
The ABC’s of Natural Church Development – Christian Schwarz and Christoph Schalk 200 yen.
Implementation Guide for Natural Church Development – Christian Schwarz and Christoph Schalk 1,500 yen.
Servants of the Servant: A Biblical Theology of Leadership
Author: Don N. Howell Jr.
Price: 1,200 yen
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Ministry Nuts and Bolts- Albrey Malphurs 1,200 yen.
Born for Battle. A must read, classic book on prayer by Arthur Matthews. 700 yen.
Building a Church of Small Groups. Highly recommended by the CPI leadership for those who wish to use small groups and cell-based strategies for building community-fellowship, evangelism and disciple making in their church planting. This is a Willow Creek resource. 1,200 yen.
Cross-Cultural Connections. Duane Elmer has given us a tremendous resource for the 21st century. A must read for Christians or non-Christians, local churches, mission organizations, Christian colleges and Universities and those connected to the market places. (J Paul Hiebert, CPI Conference Speaker 2004). Many of the problems encountered in ministry in Japan are due to a failure to recognize cultural differences and different ways of viewing the world. This book speaks to basic principles of effective cross cultural communication. 1,300 yen.
Books related to Spiritual Formation and Gospel Renewal
Discipline of Grace ENG – Jerry Bridges 1,500 yen. This is our annual all time best seller.
Discipline of Grace JPN – Jerry Bridges) 1,800 yen. This is our annual all time best seller.
Gospel for Real Life ENG- Author: Jerry Bridges Price: 1,200 yen
This book is highly recommended for everyone involved in CPI at any level. It has been suggested that this would be the best book to read, followed by Bridges “Discipline of Grace”, before moving on to the books on church planting and church development. These two books present the core of the Gospel message for those who are in ministry.
Gospel for Real Life JPN- Jerry Bridges 1,800 yen.
Thoughts Along the Way- Elaine Mehn- Weekly devotion readings from daily life and Japanese culture. 500 yen.
Living in the Light- Neil H. Williams – 6 lessons for Christians to understand the gospel more deeply. 1,000 yen.