Rating: 7
November 3, 2006
Frost and Hirsch offer a compelling start, the beginnings of a dream of what a missional church could look like today. Their strongest call is to one of imagination: quoting Einstein, they write, “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagintaion. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” (Frost and Hirsch, 185). In a time of great transition, we are in great need of Christian leaders who can harness their imaginations.
I like the simplicity of their framework — that missional churches have an incarnational ecclesiology, messianic spirituality and apostolic leadership. It’s a great discussion — though I think it stayed in the realm of strategies, and could’ve addressed the core message. Is the Gospel even inherently what we think it is? What did Jesus come to teach here? They would then be upping the ante of what they are questioning, and might find new answers here as well.
By their own admission, this book isn’t a how-to, but a “why-to.” And in that, they do remarkably well with a gift of sharing their stories.
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