The Forgotten Ways

by Hirsch, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781587431647
• ISBN10: 1587431645
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Brazos Pr

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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