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The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church
by Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch
from Hendrickson Publishers

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• The Shaping of Things to Come
  This is my first book by Frost and Hirsch and it is one that I had read when it first came out. Though this is not new information necessarily, it is well written and puts together a powerful case for the need to reexamine the state of the Western Church. They do a great job of building the case for looking at the Church now as a missional movement rather than an attractional one. Attractional has been historic Christendom's posture in the culture. It has worked better at times than others, but now, with a... more info

• General Thoughts on the subject
  I favored this book in that it is seeking to provide a fresh perspective on the ongoing dialogue concerning the effectiveness of the local church in today's culture.
  The authors are coming at this from a missiologist's point of view, and that, in this case, is an important element. The wider dialogue needs to have the input of a great many minds that represent the spectrum of evangelical interests and Frost and Hirsch give good insight and provide wonderful examples of how the evangelical church is... more info

• Think while you read, don't accept out of hand
  I have a friend that asked me to read this. Yes, I am a Pastor, yes, I'm 55 years old. BUT, I do have a young mindset. I have been a youth pastor forever.
  Let me preface my following remarks before you all discount me as "one of those" Pastors who doesn't get it. I lived "Incarnational" ministry for 27 years in the inner city of Los Angeles. I moved in to a culture of gangs, drugs, prostituion, homeless, etc. It was not my culture. I'm WASP, my community was African American and Hispanic. I understand... more info

• new ideas for what "church" might look like
  I recommend this book to everyone who is tired of the institutional church. Even if someone doesn't want to start a house church, or be quite different, this book helps to challenge the need to always do things the same way. Do we really need a building? Paid staff? How can the church adapt to a post-Christian world? The Church is now in the midst of buildng a new style of church, a new re-formation, and this book offers lots of possibilities as we think and pray this through.

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