Coffee, a Bible, and a Napkin to Scribble On
Basic Training has a purpose. It’s to take feckless, immature, self-centered young recruits off the street and change them into a valid fighting unit. In short, to make them effective, and to keep them alive. Translate that biblically as to God’s purpose regarding a People!
From p. 92, The Trouble with Grace, Keith Hueftle
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)
