Movements That Change the World - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979805376 ISBN 13: 9780979805370

Publisher: Missional Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book is for anyone who wants to follow Jesus and change the world.

Movements that change the world are characterized by white-hot faith,commitment to a cause, contagious relationships, rapid mobilization,and adaptive methods. Jesus founded a missionary movement. His followers are called to continue his mission in the power of the Holy Spirit.

A thoroughly readable description of the dynamics of missionary movements and how to initiate, maintain, and extend them.
ALAN HIRSCH
Author of The Forgotten Ways

Steve synthesizes his vast amounts of experience, wisdom, and research into an easy-to-read book.
NEIL COLE
Author of Organic Church

Practitioners and thinkers with a passion for mission will want to read and re-read this book.
DR. MARTIN ROBINSON
Co-author of Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination

An important book for our times ­ well researched, well written, and well thought out.
DR. ROBERT E. LOGAN
Author of Be Fruitful and Multiply

I couldn¹t put it down till it finished rearranging my mind. This is a keeper!
RALPH MOORE
Author of How To Multiply Your Church

Steve identifies the core characteristics of movements and does it in a way that enables all of us, not just the academics, to understand.
BOB ROBERTS
Author of The Multiplying Church

As I read the manuscript I felt that I had met a long-lost brother. I had to read it through in a single sitting. DAVID GARRISON
Author of Church Planting Movements

Steve casts a compelling future vision by tracing God¹s discernible lessons demonstrated in movements. He taps into the heart hunger of the growing number of us that want to see God do something great.
ED STETZER
Author of Planting Missional Churches

I love this book! Every so often a book comes along that fuels the flame that was started in my heart years ago when I was a young and on-fire world changer.
FLOYD MCCLUNG
Author of You See Bones, I See an Army

About the author
Steve Addison is a lifelong student of movements that renew and expand the Christian faith. He serves as Australian director of Church Resource Ministries. Steve¹s calling is to spark church planting movements ­everywhere.

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"In this book Steve Addison demonstrates the desire of God from the biblical era until today. He casts a compelling future vision by tracing God's discernible lessons demonstrated in movements. Steve taps into the heart hunger of the growing number of us that want to see God do something great. Your heart will be stirred while you read Movements That Change the World. If you are like me, you will be prompted to stop and pray, 'Lord, do it again, for the sake of our communities and nations--for every man, woman and child!'"--Ed Stetzer, missiologist and author of Planting Missional Churches

"Adaptive, innovative and consuming. Those words characterize the movements Steve Addison describes and prescribes in his book. They also depict the book--pick it up and it won't let go of you. I couldn't put it down till it finished rearranging my mind. This is a keeper!"--Ralph Moore, founding pastor of Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and author of How to Multiply Your Church

"This will be a valuable contribution to our growing understanding of church-planting movements and their history, scope and nature. . . . I will be recommending this to everyone I know."--David Garrison, missionary with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board and author of Church Planting Movements

"An important book for our times--well researched, well written, and well thought out. Steve identifies the essential qualities that have defined movements of the Spirit throughout the ages. The stories he tells--biblical, historical, contemporary and personal--give us hope for fresh movements of God in our day."--Robert E. Logan, founder of CoachNet International Ministries and author of Be Fruitful and Multiply

"Steve has been tantalizing me with tales of this book for years. He has talked to me about the content on numerous occasions. The chapters are distilled from years of experience and thought, and the final product has not disappointed. Practitioners and thinkers with a passion for mission will want to read and reread this book."--Martin Robinson, director of Together in Mission, UK, and coauthor of Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in the Age of Imagination

"There are very few who have truly studied, dissected and understood church multiplication movements at the core. My friend Steve Addison has done his homework. I have anticipated this work for some time and am pleased to report it is better than I ever expected. Steve has put in the years of research and synthesizes his vast amounts of experience, wisdom and research into an easy-to-read book."--Neil Cole, founder of Church Multiplication Associates and author of Organic Church

"I love this book! Every so often a book comes along that fuels the flame that was started in my heart years ago when I was a young and on-fire world changer. I love reading this type of book. I'm still a fanatical, fiercely focused, imbalanced, apostolic type guy. I'm older now, but more fervent than ever. If you're looking for an intelligent and passionate book to stir you to dream big dreams of how a movement can begin through your life and that will give you practical tools to help implement those dreams, then read Movements That Change the World!"--Floyd McClung, founder/director of All Nations, South Africa, and author of You See Bones, I See an Army

About the Author

Alan Hirsch is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network. He is the co-founder of shapevine.com, an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas. He leads Future Travelers, a learning journey applying missional-incarnational approaches to established churches and is an active participant in The Tribe of LA, a Jesus community among artists and creatives in Los Angeles. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Hirsch is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular bookThe Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan's recent book The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to movements. His book ReJesus is a radical restatement about the role that Jesus plays in defining missional movements. Untamed, his latest book (with his wife Debra) is about missional discipleship for a missional church. His experience in leadership includes leading a local church movement among the marginalized as well as heading up the Mission and Revitalization work of his denomination. Hirsch is an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe, and the U.S.

Edition details

• Publisher: Missional Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0979805376
• ISBN 13: 9780979805370
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English