Books
Below is a list of books that we have found to be both challenging and interesting. If you want to read some great books on what it means to be a follower of Jesus, we recommend these:
The Shaping of Things To Come: Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost
Christendom is dying and needs to be removed from its life-support system.
Blue Like Jazz: Donald Miller
In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.
Exiles: Michael Frost
Exiles seeks to integrate all aspects of life and decision-making and to develop the characteristics of a Christian life lived intentionally within emerging (postmodern) culture.
Sex God: Rob Bell
The story of God becoming human, of humans mirroring God and love made manifest in the chaos of our
humanity.
A New Kind of Christian: Brian McLaren
Postmodernism is the road to take in order to move on from the current stalemate between conservative evangelical and liberal Christians.
The Secret Message of Jesus: Brian McLaren
The church has focused on salvation as a means to “heaven after you die” for too long … the kingdom of God is here now.
Velvet Elvis: Rob Bell
God never changes, nor do the central truths of Christianity. But our understanding of those truths is in constant flux.
God’s Politics: Jim Wallis
Why the American Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it.
The Irresistible Revolution: Shane Claiborne
They call themselves “ordinary radicals” because they attempt to live like Christ and the earliest converts to Christianity, ignoring social status and unencumbered by material comforts.
The Forgotten Ways: Alan Hirsch
Explores the concept of Apostolic Genius as a way to understand what caused the church to expand at various times in history, interpreting it for use in our own time and place.
Searching For God Knows What: Donald Miller
Every person is constantly seeking redemption (or at least the feeling of it) in his or her life, believing countless gospels that promise to fix the brokenness.
More Ready Than You Realize: Brian McLaren
OUT: Evangelism as sales pitch, as conquest… IN: Disciple-making as conversation, as friendship…
Houses That Change The World: Wolfgang Simson
In a world where the church is being ignored, it is time to bring the church to the people and not the people to the church.
The Trouble with Paris: Mark Sayers
Our shopping mall world offers us a never-ending array of pleasures to explore. Consumerism promises us a vision of heaven on earth-a reality that’s hyper-real.
