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The Missional Leader | Alan Roxburgh & Fred Romanuk

by Matt McCarnan on August 10th, 2007

The Missional LeaderAlan Roxburgh & Fred Romanuk. The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World. Jossey-Bass, 2006. 240 pp.

Introduction

The question is familiar: “What do you mean by missional church?” Even though the term is now used everywhere, there is still confusion about it. As we begin this book, here is a brief description of what we mean by the phrase.

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Confessions of a Reformission Rev. | Mark Driscoll

by Matt McCarnan on June 11th, 2007

Confessions of a Reformission Rev.Mark Driscoll. Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church. Zondervan, 2006. 208 pp.

Ten Curious Questions

This book is about the hard lessons we have learned at Mars Hill Church in Seattle (www.marshillchurch.org). Writing this book caused me to reflect on our past and subsequently conjured up a horrendous feeling eerily similar to seeing my high school yearbook photo in which I sported a soccer-rocker mullet. Like me, most people prefer not to dwell on past moments of folly, embarrassment, or failure. But the providential hand of a gracious God commonly uses exactly such occasions to shape ministers and their ministries.

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The Voice of Luke | Brian McLaren

by Matt McCarnan on June 7th, 2007

The Voice of LukeBrian McLaren. The Voice of Luke: Not Even Sandals. Thomas Nelson, 2007. 224 pp.

Luke 1

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GOD

What are your assumptions as you begin this amazing document? What do you assume about Luke as an author-his motives, his agenda, his assumptions? Any constructive experience of reading involves an amazing interaction so complex that it’s a wonder it ever works at all.

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