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Books for Sale - published by OIKOS Australia or only available through us.
Body Life - 6 Practices of the House Church
by Nathan Hobby
Illustrated by Graham Preston
Nathan introduces the book - "Our life together as a church is an important part of the good news we announce to the world. The world should see in the church a taste of what life in the Kingdom of God is like. Indeed, the church gets to be now what the world will ultimately be when everyone lives under God's reign.
In the New Testament, we find certain practices that mark the church as God's people, living in the kingdom now. Many of these have been either forgotten or so altered that their original meaning has been lost. Echoes of all of them can still be found in different churches."
The practices as outlined in this book should be normal home church life. OIKOS encourages all home churches to have a copy of this book.
Nathan is an award winning author who lives in Perth with his wife Nicole. They are in a home church and have been involved with OIKOS for several years.
Titles of chapters -
1. Baptism unites different types of people
2. The Lord's Supper is a shared meal
3. Everyone has a gift for the church
4. The open meeting
5. Church discipline
6. Discerning as a church
Buy now! $13.50 AUD including packaging and postage
God's Radicals
by Paul Wallis
Illustrated by Graham Preston
Paul's introduction - "Down through the history of the church, there has been a strand of radical movements which have sought to express church in ways that took the Sermon on the Mount seriously and which placed discipleship at the centre of their life and witness. The book focuses on a few examples of that radical tradition within the history of the church; a tradition which holds great relevance for what many believe God is doing today."
Paul Wallis is OIKOS South Coast NSW Regional Team and heads up Jesus Generation (a network of individuals, group houses, and household-based churches) JGen is a Partner of OIKOS Australia. Paul is the author of several books including 'Rough Ways in Prayer', 'Men Behaving Boldly', 'My Dinner with Anton', 'Be Thou My Breastplate' and 'The New Monastic'.
The fascinating titles of the chapters - see if you can guess which saints the names refer to!
1. The Breakout Ministries of Joe, Frank, Clare and Dom
2. The Wisdom of a Radical Italian Pastor Called Ben
3. The Disgraced Anglican Who Dared to Gather Christians in Private!
4. The Great Zeal and Bad Deal of a Radical Spanish Soldier
5. The Life-Changing Call of an Evangelist Called Gerry
6. The Inspiration of a Subversive Called Crosbie
7. Some Timely Wisdom from Two "crypto-radicals"
8. A Discredited Presbyterian Missionary and his Faith in the Few
A great read and an encouragement to see that we are part of the move of God that has been right thrugh the ages.
Buy now! $13.50 AUD including packaging and postage
Foundational Studies -
by Frank Watson of Highway Christian Fellowship
This excellent and thorough bible study series was developed over decades of experience teaching new Christians 
the foundations of the Christian faith. Many people have come into house church from a background of having heard many sermons, sat through all sorts of teaching and perhaps have experienced many valuable things in church life. However, the foundations have not been been in place for all the rest to be most effective. The consequence is that some people get blown around by every wind of doctrine or by the latest popular Christian book that comes their way, without having the discernment necessary to sift the good from the doubtful or the just plain 'whacky'. This series will provide a solid basis for new Christians and for those whose foundations have been sand rather than rock.
Subects covered -
- Man. What is he?
- The Fall of Man.
- Repentance.
- Faith.
- The Salvation of Man.
- Sanctification
- Water Baptism.
- Holy Spirit Baptism.
- Prayer.
- Submission.
- Worship.
- Fellowship.
- Giving.
- Soul Winning.
By now! $20 including packaging and postage.
FOUR BOOKS BY DR. VICTOR CHOUDRIE
The following books by Victor Choudrie, the 'grandfather' of discipling and church planting in India. These are only available here and we only have limited numbers of copies. So be quick! Only $13.50 including p & p.
'Apostolic Gardens' 
This is full of short pieces that are about radical discipleship. Radical to the point of shocking us out of complacency.
'The Church in Your House' 
This is a very fresh and challenging look at Simple Church multiplication and life as you can imagine it would be, written from the perspective of all that is happening in India.
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'Teaching Cards for Church Planters'
This book has short pieces on many topics to do with church planting. These are in use currently in simple church planting across India. If you know anything about the success of the Indian church planting, you will want to have this book for your own understanding and practice to be stretched - and also to train those you work with.