Right Here Right Now
Everyday Mission for Everyday People
by Alan Hirsch & Lance Ford
Paperback
Price: £9.99
Publisher:Baker Books imprint of Baker Pub. from Lion
Published:01 February 2011
ISBN:978-0-801-07223-9
GoodBookStall Review:
If all of life is a mission, then this is a compelling handbook for the power of transformational doing! A movement of mission could be realised if an individual, church or nation read and did just what is ably and brilliantly invited here! This mandate expounded by Hirsch & Ford is top class in many dimensions, whilst exposing key powers and principalities that pose major threats to the witness of the Church in the West. Indeed the hope of transformation lies, as Hirsch proclaims at the outset is, “not with a trendy new movement, but by reconnecting the current Christian church with the power of the original one”
At the heart of the book are two of its finest chapters, one on small groups “as communities of mission” and one on the practice of hospitality. Alan Hirsch concludes the book with a superb reflection on the sort of ecclesiology that undergirds the missiology and praxis developed over the course of the book. He concisely describes “a faithful expression of the church” as a covenanted community that is centred on Jesus and that nurtures the virtues of worship, discipleship and mission. Unlike other titles that just give analysis, Hirsch and Ford offer here real, viable solutions to these challenges that take the church community seriously and point us toward a deeply-rooted hope in Christ’s transforming power. Brilliant in content and communication: readable, clear and challenging – a certain classic!
Reviewer: Johnny Douglas (03/03/11)
If all of life is a mission, then this is a compelling handbook for the power of transformational doing! A movement of mission could be realised if an individual, church or nation read and did just what is ably and brilliantly invited here! This mandate expounded by Hirsch & Ford is top class in many dimensions, whilst exposing key powers and principalities that pose major threats to the witness of the Church in the West. Indeed the hope of transformation lies, as Hirsch proclaims at the outset is, “not with a trendy new movement, but by reconnecting the current Christian church with the power of the original one”
At the heart of the book are two of its finest chapters, one on small groups “as communities of mission” and one on the practice of hospitality. Alan Hirsch concludes the book with a superb reflection on the sort of ecclesiology that undergirds the missiology and praxis developed over the course of the book. He concisely describes “a faithful expression of the church” as a covenanted community that is centred on Jesus and that nurtures the virtues of worship, discipleship and mission. Unlike other titles that just give analysis, Hirsch and Ford offer here real, viable solutions to these challenges that take the church community seriously and point us toward a deeply-rooted hope in Christ’s transforming power. Brilliant in content and communication: readable, clear and challenging – a certain classic!
Reviewer: Johnny Douglas (03/03/11)
