Introducing the Missional Church

September 24, 2009  •  Off the Cuff  •  Eddie

This November a new book by Alan J. Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren, entitled Introducing the Missional Church is to be published by Baker Books in their Allelon Missionaal Series. It provides a helpful outline of what constitutes a missional church in cultural contexts experience deep change. It emphasizes that churches in the West must become more effective missionaries in their own land. It lays a firm theological foundation stresses that mission arises out of the very nature of God, and of the vision inaugurated in Jesus Christ of the reign of God over the whole of life. Consequently, the church must live into that vision, presenting a challenge and providing a sign. Chapter 8-15 outline a patient process to enable traditional churches, shaped by Christendom, to make the transition.

 

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