• What ongoing role does Jesus the Messiah play in shaping the ethos and self understanding of the movement that originated in him?
• How is the Christian religion informed and shaped by the Jesus that we meet in the Gospels?
• How do we assess the continuity required between the life and example of Jesus and the subsequent religion called Christianity?
• In how many ways do we domesticate the radical Revolutionary in order to sustain our religion and religiosity?
• How can a rediscovery of Jesus renew our discipleship, the Christian community, and the ongoing mission of the church?
These questions take us to the core of what the church is all about. Rather than reformation, the authors call their task re-founding the church because it raises the issue of the Church’s true Founder or Foundation. This theme is of particular importance at the dawn of the twenty-first century as many attempt to address Christianity’s endemic and long trended decline in the West. The authors feel that a spiritual, theological, missional, and existential crisis looms in the West.
Michael Frost is an Australian teacher, writer, and church leader and one of Australia’s leading communicators and evangelists. He is the Director of the Centre for Evangelism and Glocal Mission at Morling Baptist Seminary in Sydney, Australia, and is the author of numerous books including Seeing God in the Ordinary (Hendrickson, 2000), The Shaping of Things to Come with Alan Hirsch (Hendrickson, 2003) and Exiles (Hendrickson, 2006).
Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and a founder of shapevine.com. He is the author of The Shaping of Things to Come with Michael Frost and The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church and The Forgotten Ways Handbook.
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ISBN: 9781598562286
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: HENDRICKSON - published 01/02/2009
Format: Paperback