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The burgeoning missional church movement is a sign that believers are increasingly feeling the call to impact their communities, which is a good thing. But, says Alan J. Roxburgh, these conversations still prioritize church success over mission--how can being missional grow my church? But to focus on such questions misses the point.In Missional, Roxburgh calls Christians to reenter their neighborhoods and communities to discover what the Spirit is doing there--to start with God's mission. He then encourages readers to shape their local churches around that mission. With inspiring true stories and a solid biblical base, Missional is a book that will change lives and communities as its message is lived out.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 mars 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441214591
Langue	English

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“ Missional may well be the best yet from author Alan Roxburgh as he prophetically reclaims the Newbigin engagement of gospel and culture as the key to rediscovering what it really means to be church. This engagement is compellingly framed in theological terms from the Luke-Acts texts as readers are deeply challenged and creatively invited to ‘join God in their neighborhoods.’ A must-read for anyone who take seriously the challenge and opportunity facing the church in the West in light of it having lost home field advantage.”
— Craig Van Gelder , PhD, Professor of Congregational Mission, Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, MN
“I’ve read Al Roxburgh over the years and, taking nothing away from his previous work, this is Roxburgh’s finest to date. His take on Luke 10 is compelling. Filled with stories and theological precision, this book takes us to new places for the future of Christ’s church in North America. It is sure to be a tour de force for the missional conversation. I am not being excessive when I say this book is brilliant.”
— David Fitch , B. R. Lindner Professor of Evangelical Theology, Northern Seminary; author, The End of Evangelicalism?
“Many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of things called ‘missional,’ but Roxburgh deconstructs our modern strategic orderliness, claims we often ask the wrong questions, and lures us into Luke’s narratives. Roxburgh posits that our ‘language house,’ our whole imagination about what God is up to and how we might participate, needs to be upended through some rather odd activities like listening to neighbors and rehearing some biblical narratives.”
— Rev. Mark Lau Branson , EdD, Homer Goddard Associate Professor of Ministry of the Laity, Fuller Theological Seminary
“The term ‘missional’ is in serious danger of becoming all things to all people and thereby signifying nothing. In this book, Alan Roxburgh offers an important corrective to this situation by providing a concrete, practical, and theologically sophisticated conception of the term in conjunction with a fresh imagination around the idea of joining God in the neighborhood for the sake of the world. This is the best book yet from one of the leading voices in the missional conversation.”
— John R. Franke , Theologian in Residence, First Presbyterian Church of Allentown; general coordinator, the Gospel and Our Culture Network
“Roxburgh daringly puts the church in its place . . . literally. Missional invites us to relocate the center of missional life from churches to our places and neighborhoods. Drawing on a lifetime of missional practice and study, Roxburgh brings together missional theology with real world stories of missional practitioners. A must-read for any community seeking to live even more missionally.”
— Dwight J. Friesen , Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Mars Hill Graduate School, Seattle; author, Thy Kingdom Connected ; co-author, Routes and Radishes
“Many books are worth reading but few worth absorbing. This book falls into the latter category, and if you allow it to, it will take you into a new world and give you eyes to see what God is doing all around you. It will put ‘mission’ into your understanding of ‘missional.’”
— M. Scott Boren , pastor; author, Missional Small Groups
“ Missional is a must-read for pastors and church leaders who want a biblical framework and practical process for being the church in our time, not just doing church in the cookie-cutter style of other churches. Because Missional begins by asking the right questions and not giving the right answers, we are drawn into our own conversations about what it means to be sent, to move back into our neighborhoods, and to spark the missional imaginations of our church members for the sake of the gospel.”
— Mike McClenahan , senior pastor, Solana Beach Presbyterian Church, board member, Presbyterian Global Fellowship and Amor Ministries
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Series Preface
Allelon is a network of missional church leaders, schools, and parachurch organizations that envisions, inspires, engages, resources, trains, and educates leaders for the church and its mission in our culture. Said simply, together we are a movement of missional leaders.
We have a particular burden for people involved in new forms of missional communities (sometimes called “emerging”), people starting new congregations within denominational systems, and people in existing congregations who are working toward missional identity and engagement. Our desire is to encourage, support, coach, and offer companionship for missional leaders as they discern new models of church capable of sustaining a living and faithful witness to the gospel in our contemporary world.
The word allelon is a common but overlooked Greek word that is reciprocal in nature. In the New Testament it is most often translated “one another.” Christian faith is not an individual matter. Everything in the life of the church is done allelon for the sake of the world. A Christian community is shaped by the allelon sayings in the Scriptures, a few of which include love one another, pursue one another’s good, and build up one another.
As a network of leaders who work with one another, leaders from multiple continents are currently working on a multiyear research project called Mission in Globalizing Culture. Through this project they are asking questions about the formation of leaders in a radically changing context and the demands of a multinarrative world.
Allelon also collaborates with the Roxburgh Missional Network in its research projects and in providing on-the-ground tools for leaders at all levels of church life. Through its website and consulting and training processes it is furthering the missional conversation in many parts of the world.
In addition, Allelon has partnered with Baker Books and Baker Academic to produce resources that equip the church with the best thinking and practices on missional life. The book you now hold is one of those pieces that contribute to the missional conversation and its practical outworking in local churches. I (Alan) have known and worked off and on with Scott for more than fifteen years. In that time, he has passionately sought ways in which small groups can be effective structures for the formation of people to be what Lesslie Newbigin described as a sign, foretaste, and witness of God’s future in Jesus Christ. I have watched Scott wrestle with the big issues around forming missional groups at the heart of local churches. He understands how most small groups have been turned into little more than experiences for individuals and fail to participate in God’s great purposes in creation. Scott has worked in local churches to produce something very different. This is not a “how-to-guide” as much as a handbook for leaders wondering how to empower and energize a community seeking to witness to the kingdom in the midst of their lives.
Mark Priddy and Al Roxburgh
Introduction
Welcome to an Unthinkable World
The argument of this book is that we have entered a world for which the churches of North America are woefully unprepared. These churches are, in fact, seeking to address this new, unthinkable world with strategies shaped in the twentieth century and with some of the deepest convictions of modernity. [1]
Further, I will argue that in this unthinkable space we do not need to jump into some new, so-called postmodern idealism. Instead we must return to some of the most basic imaginations given to us in the New Testament. We will look at the experience of Jesus’s sending out the seventy disciples into the towns and villages of Galilee (Luke 10:1–12) and discover clues given there about how to navigate in an unthinkable world. [2] The temptation, almost as if it is a default built into our DNA, is either to imagine we can solve the challenges of an unthinkable world using the categories of leadership that have worked for us in the past or to believe the new gurus of the church who suggest we need to abandon all the things we’ve done and buy their new visions of how things ought to be. As we begin this journey, some examples of how we tend to engage an unthinkable time will help guide our conversation.
A Lesson from History
In the mid-1930s the War to End All Wars had been over for more than a decade and much had changed since the Armistice in 1919. Following the Versailles Treaty came reparations, the disarmament of Germany, the formation of the League of Nations (to ensure that war could never break out again in the world), the redrawing of the map of Europe (to say nothing about the maps of the rest of the world, especially the Middle East where in this period so much of our current, indecipherable, international c