The shaping of things to come
Subtitle: innovation and mission for the 21st-century church
By: Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
Contributors: Hirsch, Alan, 1959 October 24-
Edition: Revised and updated edition.
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801014918
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Church; Church work
Description: The Shaping of Things to Come explores why the church needs to recalibrate itself, rebuilding itself from the roots up. Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch build their case around real-life stories gathered from emergent church projects from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and England. These spirited experiments of Gospel community serve to point out just how varied a genuinely incarnational approach can, and needs to, become. They present nodes of missional learning for the established church as it seeks to orientate itself to the unique challenges of the twenty-first century. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-284).
Table of contents: title: Evolution or revolution?; title: The missional church; title: The incarnational approach; title: The shape of the missional church; title: The contextualized church; title: Whispering to the soul; title: The God of Israel and the renewal of Christianity; title: Action as sacrament; title: The medium really is the message; title: The genius of APEST; title: Imagination and the leadership task; title: Organizing the revolution.