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  They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations

  by Dan Kimball

  Many people today, especially among emerging generations, don't resonate with the church and organized Christianity. Some are leaving the church and others were never part of the church in the first place. Sometimes it's because of misperceptions about the church. Yet often they are still spiritually open and fascinated with Jesus. This is a ministry resource book exploring six of the most common objects and... (more)
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  The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church

  by Alan Hirsch

  Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few as 25,000 adherents in AD 100 to up to 20 million in AD 310. Such incredible growth is also being experienced... (more)
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  The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community (J-B Leadership Network Series)

  by Hugh Halter

  Written for those who are trying to nurture authentic faith communities and for those who have struggled to retain their faith, The Tangible Kingdom offers theological answers and real-life stories that demonstrate how the best ancient church practices can re-emerge in today's culture, through any church of any size. In this remarkable book, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay "two missional leaders and church planters"... (more)
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  Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore

  by Rick McKinley

  Good News Unpacked Jesus is our ultimate model for finding identity, acceptance, and legitimacy from the Father. As we pull back the curtain on His life, we discover that Jesus knows what it’s like to be marginalized. He understands how it feels to have society shove you to the side, to not really be accepted, and in the end to be totally rejected. He can identify with life in the margins because when God came... (more)
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  This Beautiful Mess: Practicing the Presence of the Kingdom of God

  by Rick McKinley

  Already Not Yet When Jesus announced, “the kingdom of God is at hand,” what did He mean? Uncover the reality of the kingdom of God and what it might look like if followers of Christ practiced its in-breaking presence. What happens when we view life through the lens of the kingdom? How does the beauty of Jesus’ reign break into the mess of our broken lives and world? What if we lived as though a world other... (more)
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  The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church

  by Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch

  Christendom is dying and needs to be removed from its life-support system. Starting with this frank assessment of the current church, Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch present an alternative model for ministry in todayÂ’s postmodern world. Instead of mourning the demise of the Western church as the center of society, the authors explain how the church can be reborn through incarnational mission, messianic... (more)
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  Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

  by Stanley Hauerwas

  In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Christians in today's world and offer a compelling new vision of how the Christian church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity to nourish souls, and stand firmly against the illusions, pretensions, and eroding values of today's world. Hauerwas and Willimon call for a radical new understanding... (more)
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  Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

  by Michael Frost

  Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture presents a biblical, Christian worldview for the emergent church—people who are not at home in the traditional church or in the secular world. As exiles of both, they must create their own worldview that integrates their Christian beliefs with the contemporary world. Exiles seeks to integrate all aspects of life and decision-making and to develop the... (more)
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  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Church

  by Dean Merrill

  Written by a former vice president of Focus on the Family, this is a book for Christians who want to take the high road in the personal and corporate war on culture. Far from a prescription for apathy, this book is a passionate call to Kingdom activity--and our mission as ambassadors to a world Christ died for, not as conquerors who would remake it in our image.
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  Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

  by Donald Miller

  I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened. In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned... (more)
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  The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

  by Brian D. McLaren

  After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found, as more and more Christians are finding, that none of the current strains of Christianity fully describes his own faith. In T he Story We Find Ourselves In — the much anticipated sequel to his award-winning book A New Kind of Christian — McLaren captures a new spirit of a relevant Christianity, where traditional divisions and doctrinal differences... (more)
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  More Ready Than You Realize

  by Brian D. McLaren

  A book on evangelizing postmoderns by an experienced pastor-writer who is successfully involved in it.
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  The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church

  by Gregory A. Boyd

  Arguing from Scripture and history, Dr. Boyd makes a compelling case that whenever the church gets too close to any political or national ideology, it is disastrous for the church and harmful to society. Dr. Boyd contends that the American Evangelical Church has allowed itself to be co-opted by the political right (and some by the political left) and exposes how this is harming the church’s unique calling to build... (more)
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  A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

  by Brian D. McLaren

  A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian 's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where... (more)
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  The Ministry of the Missional Church: A Community Led by the Spirit

  by Craig Van Gelder

  In a time when churches are focusing on finding strategies and techniques to guarantee success, a movement toward the missional church is emerging. Missional churches are communities created by the Spirit with a unique nature and identity. Purpose and strategies of the church are derivative dimensions, the activities that flow naturally from the church that is focused on Spirit-led ministry. The Ministry of... (more)
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  Extraordinary Leaders in Extraordinary Times: Unadorned Clay Pot Messengers

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  Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (The Leadership Network Innovation)

  by Mark Driscoll

  An inside snapshot view of the innovative Seattle church called Mars Hill and its Acts 29 network, providing--with a touch of sarcasm and humor--both principles and practices shared from the people actually doing missional church ministry with people often untouched by today’s traditional and contemporary churches.
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  The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out

  by Mark Driscoll

  Reformation is the continual reforming of the mission of the church to enhance God’s command to reach out to others in a way that acknowledges the unique times and locations of daily life.
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  The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit

  by Craig Van Gelder

  Rather than beginning with successful contemporary models of what churches are doing, The Essence of the Church encourages readers to rethink the nature of the church. The author draws on three decades of experience to address the challenges facing todays church and urges readers to think deeply yet practically about the church. Thoughtful and readable, this book integrates insight from a variety of... (more)