Hugh Halter and Matt Smay, AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church. Zondervan, 2010. Companion volume: Halter and Smay, The Tangible Kingdom Referenced in: Missional Communities – Organic Church Missional Philosophy LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a follow-up to the authors’ popular volume, The Tangible Kingdom. These volumes present a very “organic” model of mission communities similar
Hugh Halter and Matt Smay, The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community, the Posture and Practices of an Ancient Future Now. Leadership Network / Jossey-Bass, 2008. Companion volume: Halter and Smay, AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church Referenced in: Missional Communities – Organic Church LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a similar genre to the organic church models
Reggie McNeal, Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church. Jossey-Bass / Leadership Network, 2009. Prequel: McNeal, The Present Future Sequel: McNeal, Missional Communities Referenced in: Missional Communities – Missio Dei LifeandLeadership.com Summary Reggie McNeal is a strong and authoritative voice on the missional movement. In what may be called the sequel to his bestseller
Milfred Minatrea, Shaped by God’s Heart: the Passion and Practices of Missional Churches. Jossey-Bass, 2004. Referenced in: Missional Communities – Missio Dei LifeandLeadership.com Summary This volume is a rare combination of research and practice. It is a Leadership Network equivalent to Lois Barrett’s Treasure in Clay Jars produced by the Gospel and Our Culture Network.
Lois Y. Barrett, et al, Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. Referenced in: Missional Communities – Missio Dei LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is part of the acclaimed Gospel and Our Culture Series. When the network produced Missional Church, the question emerged as to whether the missional church was strictly academic
James V. Brownson, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Barry A. Harvey, and Charles C. West, StormFront: The Good News of God. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003. Referenced in: Missional Philosophy Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality LifeandLeadership.com Summary StormFront is part of the Gospel and Our Culture Series. It offers a discerning analysis of the features of contemporary American culture that
Alan Hirsch with Darryn Altclass, The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches. Brazos Pres, 2009. Companion volume: Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways Referenced in: Missional Communities – Missio Dei Missional Strategies by Alan Hirsch LifeandLeadership.com Summary This builds on Hirsch’s volume, The Forgotten Ways (see summary), and presents how to translate the
Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church. Brazos Press, 2009. Companion volume: Hirsch and Altclass, The Forgotten Ways Handbook Referenced in: Missional Communities – Missio Dei Missional Strategies by Alan Hirsch LifeandLeadership.com Summary Hirsch is the coauthor with Mike Frost, of The Shaping of Things to Come. This volume is a follow-up, addressing
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church. Baker Books, 2008. Referenced in: Theology of Mission, Proposals and Formulations – Missio Dei LifeandLeadership.com Summary This volume is dedicated to exploring Christology as a basis for the task of “refounding” (vs. reforming) the church, i.e. “raising the issue of the church’s
Michael Frost, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture. Hendricksen Publishers, 2006. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Frost and Hirsch LifeandLeadership.com Summary This was the first book to follow the popular work Frost co-authored with Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come. It is not necessarily a sequel, but it reflects the
