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Summary
A well-known pastor and missiologist explores how the early church saw phenomenal growth and calls for a new kind of evangelism that combines missiology with the emerging church.
Author Biography
Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network. His experience includes mission and church planting to the marginalized as well as leading at the denominational level. He is coauthor of The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 11 |
| The Making of a Missionary | |
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Question | |
| A Sneak Preview | |
| Method in the Madness | |
| Setting the Scene, Part 1: Confessions of a Frustrated Missionary | p. 27 |
| "South" | |
| From Death to Chaos | |
| Becoming a Church-Planting Church | |
| From a Church to an Organic Movement | |
| Setting the Scene, Part 2: Denominational and Translocal Perspectives | p. 49 |
| A View from the Chopper | |
| Christendom-schmissendom | |
| A Missionary's Take | |
| We've Always Done It This Way...er...Haven't We? | |
| "It's Church, Jim, but Not as We Know It" | |
| Who Put the M in the EMC? | |
| A Journey to the Heart of Apostolic Genius | |
| Introduction | p. 75 |
| The Heart of It All: Jesus Is Lord | p. 83 |
| Distilling the Message | |
| Hear, O Israel | |
| Jesus Is Lord | |
| The Heart of Things | |
| How Far Is Too Far? | |
| Disciple Making | p. 101 |
| "Little Jesus" in Disneyland | |
| The Conspiracy of "Little Jesus" | |
| Embodiment and Transmission | |
| Inspirational Leadership | |
| Leadership as an Extension of Discipleship | |
| Hitting the Road with Jesus | |
| Missional-Incarnational Impulse | p. 127 |
| Theological Roots | |
| Missional-Incarnational | |
| Missional Ecclesiology or...Putting First Things First | |
| Apostolic Environment | p. 149 |
| If You Want Missional Church, Then... | |
| An Apostolic Job Description | |
| Field of Dreams | |
| Creating Webs of Meaning | |
| A Stroke of (Apostolic) Genius | |
| The Final Word | |
| Organic Systems | p. 179 |
| Get a Life: The Church as a Living System | |
| The Problem of Institutions | |
| A Movement Ethos | |
| Networked Structures | |
| Viruslike Growth | |
| Let's Talk about Sex | |
| Finally | |
| Communitas, Not Community | p. 217 |
| "The Community for me"? or "Me for the Community"? | |
| Liminality and Communitas | |
| The Bible and Communitas | |
| It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere! | |
| The Mythos of Communitas | |
| Artificial Environments and the Church | |
| The Future and the Shaping of Things to Come | |
| Mission as Organizing Principle | |
| Beyond the Either-Or Church | |
| So, Follow the Yellow Brick Road | |
| Conclusion | p. 243 |
| Addendum and Glossary: A Crash Course in Chaos | p. 247 |
| We Just Got a New Set of Spectacles | |
| Changing the Story | |
| Survival Is Not Enough | |
| How, Then, Shall We Live? | |
| Come Forth! A Case Study in Emergent Structures | |
| Glossary of Key Terms | p. 273 |
| Bibliography | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 293 |
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