This page contains an ever-growing list of links, blog posts, books, and other materials that will aid you in navigating the missional conversation. Some posts are listed for their contribution to this conversation. Others will be listed as simply insightful or indicative of how certain people or groups react to their perceptions of what a missional orientation is really all about. The purpose of this page is to keep you informed, and for those who are newer to this “conversation” to be a loose guide as you navigate the sometimes confusing and often abused or distorted message that flows from the mission of God.
If you are aware of a good resource that is not listed please email Michael Hanegan or leave a comment on this page.
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Books
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
edited by Darrell L. Guder
Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness
edited by Lois Y. Barrett
The Continuing Conversion of the Church
by Darrell L. Guder
The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America
edited by George R. Hunsberger and Craig Van Gelder
The Incarnation and the Church’s Witness
by Darrell L. Guder
The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century
by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible’s Central Story
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview
by Michael W. Goheen and Craig G. Bartholomew
The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
by Michael W. Goheen and Craig G. Bartholomew
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
by Lesslie Newbigin
Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
by Lesslie Newbigin
The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission
by Lesslie Newbigin
Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community
by Ed Stetzer and David Putman
The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World
by Alan J. Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk
The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
by Alan Hirsch
Compelled by Love: The Most Excellent Way to Missional Living
by Ed Stetzer and Philip Nation
Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
by Michael Frost
Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too
by Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson
Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church (Not Yet Published)
by Reggie McNeal
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
by Andy Crouch
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
by N. T. Wright
Blog Articles
Four Essentials for the Western Church in the 21st Century
(Notes from a presentation made by Alan Hirsch at GRTS)
Craig Van Gelder on the Missional Church
Newbigin on Cross Cultural Transmission of the Bible
Darrell Guder on the Promise and Threat of Missional Theology
A Word Study of “Ekklesia” by William Mounce
Missional Leadership Development
Missional Theology for a Missional Church (Darrell Guder)
Darrell Guder Challenges Churches to Define Missional
Newbigin on the Church as the Hermeneutic of the Gospel
Andreas Kostenberger’s Twelve Theses on the Mission of the Church in the 21st Century
The Church as Sent: Five Important Thoughts from David Bosch
Living the Mission – What is the Mission?
Triune Love: The Roots of a Missional Theology by John Mark Hicks
The Kingdom of God by Mike Cope
Communion and Translation: Searching for a Trinitarian Missional Theology
The Leadership Structure of Earliest Christianity – Was it Hierarchial by Ben Witherington III
Is Missional Theological or Ecclesiological?
Willimon on Mission vs. Maintenance
History of the Missional Church Conversation
Empirical Indicators of Missional Church
Missional Faith and the Role of Questions
Blogs about all things Missional
COMING SOON
Articles
David Bosch as Public Theologian
Videos
N. T. Wright on the Postmodern Church
Ed Stetzer on “Comeback Churches” and Becoming Missional with the Assemblies of God
David Fitch on Missional Order Church Planting
What is Missional? by Michael Frost
Brian McLaren on Becoming a Missional Christian
Networking and Missional Resources
Audio from the Total Church Conference
A Huge List of Articles on Missional Hermeneutics from RealMealMinistries.org
Nice work!
By: mattdabbs on January 4, 2009
at 3:33 am