Emerging contexts of the world call us to rethink the questions: “What is mission?” “What is vision?” The following are resources for Mission / Vision study:
The Great Emergence, Phillis Tickle
Emergence Christianity, Phyllis Tickle
Holy Discontent – Fueling the Fire that Ignites Personal Vision, Bill Hybels (Zonderan)
A New Christianity , Brian McLaren
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World, Brian McLaren
We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation, Brian McLaren
More Ready Than You Realize, Brian McLaren
Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne
Common Prayer, Shane Claiborne, Jonathon Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okora
Schools for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism, Rutba House and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Keeping the Sabbath Wholly – Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting, Marva J. Dawn
Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society, Marva Dawn
Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for this Urgent Time, Marva Dawn
Morning by Morning: Daily Meditations from the Writing of Marva Dawn, Marva Dawn
Bridges Out of Poverty, Philip E. DeVol, Ruby K. Payne, and Terie Dreussi Smith
Me, Myself, & Bob – A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables, Phil Vischer
The 21st Century Christian: Following Jesus Where Life Happens, Michael Moynagh and Michael Adam Beck
Three Cups of Tea – One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time, Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Talking and Start Giving Back, Kevin and Hannah Salwen
Toxic Charity – How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It, Robert D. Lupton
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, Simon Wiesenthal
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg
Dwelling in the Word , Pat Taylor Ellison and Patrick Keifert
11 Indispensable Relationships You Can’t Live Without, Leonard Sweet
Crossing the Bar – Home by Another Way, James G. Johnson
Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation, and God, Bryan Berghoef
Welcoming the Stranger, Patrick Keifert
The Mission Table – Renewing Congregation & Community, Stephen P. Bouman
Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts, Kirsten Powers
Having and Being Had, Eula Biss
Interim Ministy in Action – A Handbook for Churches in Transition, Norman B. Bendroth
The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs
Celtic Evangelism, George Hunter
From Here to Community, Dick & Judy Reuning (Life Crossings)
Discovering Hope, David Poling-Goldene & L. Shannon Jung (Augsburg Fortress)
Church Morph, Eddie Gibbs
The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief, Peter Rollins
New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier, Tony Jones
An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt
Transforming Mission, David Bosch
Changing the Conversation, Anthony Robinson
Church in the Round, Letty Russell
The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economical Dimension of the Reformation, ed. Carter Lindberg and Paul Wee
The Forgotten Luther II: Reclaiming the Church’s Public Witness, ed. Ryan Cumming
The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World, Alan J.Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk
Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee, Shannon Lee
In God’s Name: Wisdom From the World’s Great Spiritual Leaders, Jules and Gedeon Naudet
The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
Making Spiritual Sense, Scott Cormode
Beyond the Ordinary, Ben Campbell Johnson and Andrew Dreitcer
After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity, Miraslov Volf
Evangelizing Church: A Lutheran Contribution, Craig Van Gelder and Richard Bliese
The Ministry of the Missional Church, Craig Van Gelder
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America, ed. Darrell Guder
The Continuing Conversion of the Church, Darrell Guder
The Good Society, by Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton.
Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church, Alan Hirsch
Practicing Our Faith: A way of life for a searching people, Dorothy Bass
Meeting God in the Ruins: Devotions for Disaster Relief Volunteers, ed. Gaede
They Like Jesus But Not the Church, Dan Kimball
Convicted in the Womb: One Man’s Journey From Prisoner to Peacemaker, Carl Upchurch
A Door Set Open, Peter Steinke
Becoming a 21st Century Church, J. Fred Lehr
We hope these resources will lead you to new understandings of mission and vision. Please feel free to return to this page as we will update as re find new resources.
