TY - BOOK AU - Hirsch,Alan TI - The forgotten ways: reactivating the missional church SN - 9781587431647 AV - BV600.H669.F674 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - Brazos Press KW - Mission of the church KW - Church KW - Missions KW - Postmodernism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity N1 - 1 (pages 287-291) and index; Section One: The Making of a Missionary --; Introduction --; A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Question --; A Sneak Preview --; Method in the Madness --; 1. Setting the Scene, Part 1: Confessions of a Frustrated Missionary -- "South" -- Phase 1: From Death to Chaos --; Phase 2: Becoming a Church-Planting Church --; Phase 3: From a Church to an Organic Movement --; 2. Setting the Scene, Part 2: Denominational and Translocal Perspectives --; A View from the Chopper --; Christendom-schmissendom --; A Missionary's Take --; We've Always Done It This Way . . . er . . . Haven't We? -- "It's Church, Jim, but Not as We Know It" -- Who Put the M in the EMC? -- Section Two: A Journey to the Heart of Apostolic Genius --; Introduction --; 3. The Heart of It All: Jesus Is Lord --; Distilling the Message --; Hear, O Israel --; Jesus Is Lord --; How Far Is Too Far? -- 4. Disciple Making -- "Little Jesus" in Disneyland --; The Conspiracy of "Little Jesus" -- Embodiment and Transmission --; Inspirational Leadership --; Leadership as an Extension of Discipleship --; Hitting the Road with Jesus --; 5. Missional-Incarnational Impulse --; Theological Roots --; Missional-Incarnational --; Missional Ecclesiology or . . . Putting First Things First --; 6. Apostolic Environment --; If You Want Missional Church, Then . . . -- An Apostolic Job Description --; Field of Dreams --; Creating Webs of Meaning --; A Stroke of (Apostolic) Genius --; The Final Word --; 7. Organic Systems --; Get a Life: The Church as a Living System --; The Problem of Institutions --; A Movement Ethos --; Networked Structures --; Viruslike Growth --; Let's Talk about Sex --; Finally --; 8. Communitas, Not Community -- "The Community for me"? or "Me for the Community"? -- Liminality and Communitas --; The Bible and Communitas --; It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere! -- The Mythos of Communitas --; Artificial Environments and the Church --; The Future and the Shaping of Things to Come --; Mission as Organizing Principle --; Beyond the Either-Or Church --; So, Follow the Yellow Brick Road --; Conclusion --; Addendum and Glossary --; A Crash Course in Chaos --; We Just Got a New Set of Spectacles --; Changing the Story --; Survival Is Not Enough --; How, Then, Shall We Live? -- Come Forth! A Case Study in Emergent Structures --; Glossary of Key Terms; 2 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006015904.html ER -