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On the Verge: A Journey Into the Apostolic Future of the Church
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From the Back CoverOn the Verge is one of those pace-setting books that will cause you to think, rethink and change your paradigm for what the church can become. This is a must read if you want to transition your church into the future.- Craig Groeschel - Lead Pastor, Life ChurchThis book does more than provide solutions: it gives hope that the Church's best days are yet to come.- Greg Surratt, Lead Pastor - Seacoast ChurchThere can never be a timelier conversation than the one God wants to have! And there could never be two more qualified voices to further the dialogue.- Reggie McNeal (from the foreword) Author of Missional RenaissanceA spot on approach for the mega and church growth churches of the last decades to reframe ourselves as high impact, exponentially reproducing, missional movements.- Mike Slaughter, Ginghamsburg Church and author of Change the WorldFinally, a book of that not only connects you to the possibilities of apostolic movement, but gives you practitioner-based principles and stories that will help you live and lead in God's Gospel wave for the future."- Hugh Halter, Author of The Tangible Kingdom, TK Primer, AND, & Sacrilege.Hirsch and Ferguson point the way towards an exquisitely hopeful future for the church...and they show how the church united can be the church ignited. Brilliant.- Linda Bergquist, church planting strategist with the North American Mission Board and co-author of Church Turned Inside OutAs you read this book, I'm sure you will find that the voices of these two great leaders become one and you hear the voice of Jesus inviting you to join his mission and love the church he is building.- Mike Breen, (from the foreword) Director of 3DM and founder of the Order of MissionHow the Church can recover her original, apostolic ways and become a high-impact Jesus movement again in the West.The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to stem the decline of Christianity in the West, and we are now facing the fact that more of the same will not produce different results.We are already seeing this new form of the church emerge in our day-an apostolic, reproducing Movement that's driven by a desire to see Biblical Christianity reestablished. Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson call this the "apostolic movement" because it's more resonant with the form of church that we witness in the New Testament and in the great missional movements of history.And we are on the verge of a new apostolic movement...In this book, Christian thought-leaders Hirsch and Ferguson share a rich array of theology, theory, and best practices, along with inspiring stories about leaders who have rightly diagnosed their churches' failure to embrace a biblical model of mission and have moved toward a fuller expression of the gospel.On the Verge will help church leaders: Imagine the contemporary Church from the apostolic perspective-how we got from there to here. Shift our mindset from technique (how to "do church") to embodiment (how to live as Christ's Church) Learn how to value, approach, and understand innovation. Move whole-heartedly toward the apostolic, missional movement.Many of the best and brightest leaders in the contemporary church are now making shifts in the way they think, lead, and organize. On the Verge will help church leaders discover how these forerunners and their insights are launching a new apostolic movement?and how any church can get involved.Review'What do you do when the old ways of doing church just don’t seem to work anymore? Thousands of pastors are asking this question at a time when the Church seems to be in danger of being marginalized in our culture. There are no two people better equipped to answer this question than my good friends Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson. Their book does more than provide solutions: it gives hope that the Church’s best days are yet to come.
From the Back CoverOn the Verge is one of those pace-setting books that will cause you to think, rethink and change your paradigm for what the church can become. This is a must read if you want to transition your church into the future.- Craig Groeschel - Lead Pastor, Life ChurchThis book does more than provide solutions: it gives hope that the Church's best days are yet to come.- Greg Surratt, Lead Pastor - Seacoast ChurchThere can never be a timelier conversation than the one God wants to have! And there could never be two more qualified voices to further the dialogue.- Reggie McNeal (from the foreword) Author of Missional RenaissanceA spot on approach for the mega and church growth churches of the last decades to reframe ourselves as high impact, exponentially reproducing, missional movements.- Mike Slaughter, Ginghamsburg Church and author of Change the WorldFinally, a book of that not only connects you to the possibilities of apostolic movement, but gives you practitioner-based principles and stories that will help you live and lead in God's Gospel wave for the future."- Hugh Halter, Author of The Tangible Kingdom, TK Primer, AND, & Sacrilege.Hirsch and Ferguson point the way towards an exquisitely hopeful future for the church...and they show how the church united can be the church ignited. Brilliant.- Linda Bergquist, church planting strategist with the North American Mission Board and co-author of Church Turned Inside OutAs you read this book, I'm sure you will find that the voices of these two great leaders become one and you hear the voice of Jesus inviting you to join his mission and love the church he is building.- Mike Breen, (from the foreword) Director of 3DM and founder of the Order of MissionHow the Church can recover her original, apostolic ways and become a high-impact Jesus movement again in the West.The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to stem the decline of Christianity in the West, and we are now facing the fact that more of the same will not produce different results.We are already seeing this new form of the church emerge in our day-an apostolic, reproducing Movement that's driven by a desire to see Biblical Christianity reestablished. Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson call this the "apostolic movement" because it's more resonant with the form of church that we witness in the New Testament and in the great missional movements of history.And we are on the verge of a new apostolic movement...In this book, Christian thought-leaders Hirsch and Ferguson share a rich array of theology, theory, and best practices, along with inspiring stories about leaders who have rightly diagnosed their churches' failure to embrace a biblical model of mission and have moved toward a fuller expression of the gospel.On the Verge will help church leaders: Imagine the contemporary Church from the apostolic perspective-how we got from there to here. Shift our mindset from technique (how to "do church") to embodiment (how to live as Christ's Church) Learn how to value, approach, and understand innovation. Move whole-heartedly toward the apostolic, missional movement.Many of the best and brightest leaders in the contemporary church are now making shifts in the way they think, lead, and organize. On the Verge will help church leaders discover how these forerunners and their insights are launching a new apostolic movement?and how any church can get involved.Review'What do you do when the old ways of doing church just don’t seem to work anymore? Thousands of pastors are asking this question at a time when the Church seems to be in danger of being marginalized in our culture. There are no two people better equipped to answer this question than my good friends Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson. Their book does more than provide solutions: it gives hope that the Church’s best days are yet to come.
