Hugh Halter and Matt Smay: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community (J-B Leadership Network Series)
One of the most practical, simple and useful books I've read on missional incarnational living. I read it twice the first month I had it.
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch: The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church
This is the book I use for the course I teach at IBI in Dublin. Still one of the best intros to Missional incarnational church thinking.
Gregory A. Boyd: The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution
Jesus didn't come to start a religion called "Christianity". So what did He come to do?
Alan Hirsch: The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
Hirsch is a scholar, and theological thinker who also is a cultural innovator and practitioner. Missional incarnational Christianity isn't some new trendy thing. It's actually going back to the forgotten commitments and priorities that Jesus calls us to follow. Great source book for the journey we're on.
Dallas Willard: The Divine Conspiracy : Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
I try to read this book at least once a year. After the Bible this may be the one book that has most shaken my thinking and re-shaped my understanding of what it means to know and follow Jesus. Not an easy read but worth the effort.
Gregory A. Boyd: Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
I think it was Kierkegaard who wrote about "following Jesus out of Christendom".
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch: Rejesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church
Hirsch and Frost further develop the centrality of Jesus in the Mission of the church today.
Neil Cole: Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are
What if instead of focusing on recruitment and mobilizing (finding) leaders..we re-committed to growing them? What impact might that have on our priorities, plans and schedules?
Neil Cole: Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
Organic, simple, reproducible, sustainable.. All words that describe the multiplication of new forms of church that are appearing around the world. Cole is committed to living out Biblical truth and Biblical models.. with a heart for the Great Commission.
Michael Frost: Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
Frost address the reality that while the Gospel is powerful and life changing, Christendom has pretty much failed to be a transformational force across much of the West. Yet most of our churches and institutions are still firmly linked to Christendom values, assumptions and postures. So how do we learn to follow Jesus as the people of God living in exile? Frost is a practitioner who shares examples of what that looks like. GREAT resource.
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Okay...I wonder who put this sign up, and why?
Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version..and check out the fine print at the bottom of the sign.
I'm sure there's some metaphore in here about efficiency and effectiveness..but I'm just not sure what it is.
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Hi Phil
Great Blog! I think people should come with signs that state that they have sharp edges- Please proceed with caution.
Posted by: Walthea Patterson | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 05:59 PM