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Foreword | |
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The Making of a Missionary | |
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Introduction | |
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Question | |
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A Sneak Preview | |
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Method in the Madness | |
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Setting the Scene, Part 1: Confessions of a Frustrated Missionary | |
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"South" | |
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From Death to Chaos | |
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Becoming a Church-Planting Church | |
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From a Church to an Organic Movement | |
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Setting the Scene, Part 2: Denominational and Translocal Perspectives | |
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A View from the Chopper | |
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Christendom-schmissendom | |
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A Missionary's Take | |
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We've Always Done It This Way...er...Haven't We? | |
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"It's Church, Jim, but Not as We Know It" | |
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Who Put the M in the EMC? | |
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A Journey to the Heart of Apostolic Genius | |
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Introduction | |
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The Heart of It All: Jesus Is Lord | |
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Distilling the Message | |
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Hear, O Israel | |
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Jesus Is Lord | |
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The Heart of Things | |
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How Far Is Too Far? | |
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Disciple Making | |
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"Little Jesus" in Disneyland | |
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The Conspiracy of "Little Jesus" | |
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Embodiment and Transmission | |
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Inspirational Leadership | |
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Leadership as an Extension of Discipleship | |
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Hitting the Road with Jesus | |
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Missional-Incarnational Impulse | |
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Theological Roots | |
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Missional-Incarnational | |
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Missional Ecclesiology or...Putting First Things First | |
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Apostolic Environment | |
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If You Want Missional Church, Then... | |
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An Apostolic Job Description | |
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Field of Dreams | |
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Creating Webs of Meaning | |
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A Stroke of (Apostolic) Genius | |
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The Final Word | |
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Organic Systems | |
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Get a Life: The Church as a Living System | |
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The Problem of Institutions | |
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A Movement Ethos | |
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Networked Structures | |
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Viruslike Growth | |
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Let's Talk about Sex | |
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Finally | |
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Communitas, Not Community | |
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"The Community for me"? or "Me for the Community"? | |
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Liminality and Communitas | |
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The Bible and Communitas | |
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It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere! | |
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The Mythos of Communitas | |
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Artificial Environments and the Church | |
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The Future and the Shaping of Things to Come | |
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Mission as Organizing Principle | |
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Beyond the Either-Or Church | |
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So, Follow the Yellow Brick Road | |
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Conclusion | |
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Addendum and Glossary: A Crash Course in Chaos | |
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We Just Got a New Set of Spectacles | |
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Changing the Story | |
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Survival Is Not Enough | |
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How, Then, Shall We Live? | |
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Come Forth! A Case Study in Emergent Structures | |
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Glossary of Key Terms | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |