Shaped By God's Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Sending the Church into the World.

PART ONE: The Church in a New and Changing World.

1. From Maintenance to Missional: The Church in a World of Change.

2. Be Church and Be Changed: How Missional Churches Live Their Passion.

PART TWO: The Nine Essential Practices of Missional Churches.

3. Missional Practice Number One: Have a High Threshold for Membership.

4. Missional Practice Number Two: Be Real, Not Real Religious.

5. Missional Practice Number Three: Teach to Obey Rather Than to Know.

6. Missional Practice Number Four: Rewrite Worship Every Week.

7. Missional Practice Number Five: Live Apostolically.

8. Missional Practice Number Six: Expect to Change the World.

9. Missional Practice Number Seven: Order Actions According to Purpose.

10. Missional Practice Number Eight: Measure Growth by Capacity to Release, Not Retain.

11. Missional Practice Number Nine: Place Kingdom Concerns First

PART THREE: Structures and Strategies for Becoming Missional.

12. They Run Rapids in Rubber Rafts: Church Structures That Can Survive the Rapids of Cultural Change.

13. Seeing Beyond the Horizon: The Nature and Task of Missional Leadership.

14. Moving to Missional: Becoming a New Kind of Church.

Appendix: Missional Church Cultural Assessment.

Notes.

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