Road to Missional Journey to the Center of the Church

Name: Road to Missional Journey to the Center of the Church
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ISBN: 9780801014079

ISBN-10: 0801014077

ISBN-13: 9780801014079

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Frost

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It has recently become acceptable, and even fashionable, to refer to one's church as "missional." But many churches misunderstand the concept, thinking of "going missional" as simply being a necessary add-on to church-as-usual. This domestication of what is actually a very bold paradigm shift makes missional nothing more than one more trick to see church growth. With a light hand and a pastoral spirit, Michael Frost points out how church practitioners are not quite there yet. He reestablishes the ground rules, redefines the terms accurately, and insists that the true prophetic essence of "being missional" comes through undiluted. This clear corrective will take ministry leaders from "not…

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List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Michael Frost is professor of evangelism and missions at Morling College in Sydney, Australia, and a Baptist minister. He is the author of Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture and the coauthor of ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church.Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and a founder of shapevine.com. He is the author of The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church and The Forgotten Ways Handbook.



About the Shapevine Missional Series


Series Editor's Preface


Introduction: Using the M-Word



The Missio Dei: Seeing Mission as Bigger Than Evangelism



Slow Evangelism: Moving Beyond the Four Spiritual Laws



A Market-Shaped Church: How Membership Has Trumped Mission



Triumphant Humiliation: The Cross as a Missional Paradigm for Holiness



Breathing Shalom: Bringing Reconciliation, Justice, and Beauty to a Broken World



Moving into the Neighborhood: Living Out Incarnational Mission


Conclusion: The Sound of Worlds Colliding


Notes