We, the people of God, are carried forward by a vision of the future that constitutes our mission. When we are caught up into it, and pursue it, we are changed, and we go on to enact history.
From The Forgotten Ways, by Alan Hirsch
Listening to God Via Prophetic Critique
Two Excerpts I Want You To Read
Here are two excerpts from “The Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch
A Note to Leaders and Introduction: http://www.cmaresources.org/files/ForgottenWaysHandbook-excerpt.pdf
and
Introduction and Chapter 1 – Confessions of a Frustrated Missionary: http://assets.bakerpublishinggroup.com/processed/book-resources/files/Hirsch.pdf?1362591025
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to link to these or not, which is why I am not hosting them on my own pages but leading you back to their original sites.
Here is a good overview of the whole book, but I’m not sure I’m allowed to link to it either.
This book is really good and has a ton of thought-provoke for Christians in churches, especially you mega-church folks.
The real thing I was looking for was the addendum at the end. I’ve quoted A Crash Course in Chaos before here, but I came across some of it again today and I just had to promote it again. Check it out, you won’t be sorry.
“The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church” (Alan Hirsch)
Alan Hirsch Summary of Verge13
