Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

Mark Driscoll

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9780310315117
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle's innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America's fastest growing churches located in one of America's toughest mission fields. It's also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he's made along the way, and God's grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll's emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he's not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches. Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church's ministry, no matter its present size. The book includes discussion questions and appendix resources. "After reading a book like this, you can never go back to being an inwardly focused church without a mission. Even if you disagree with Mark about some of the things he says, you cannot help but be convicted to the inner core about what it means to have a heart for those who don't know Jesus."—Dan Kimball, author,The Emerging Church "… will make you laugh, cry, and get mad … school you, shape you, and mold you into the right kind of priorities to lead the church in today's messy world."—Robert Webber, Northern Seminary

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prelude
• Chapter Zero: Ten Curious Questions
• Chapter One: Jesus, Our Offering Was $137 and I Want to Use It to Buy Bullets
• Chapter Two: Jesus, If Anyone Else Calls My House,
• Chapter Three: Jesus, Satan Showed Up and I Can’t Find My Cup
• Chapter Four: Jesus, Could You Please Rapture the Charismaniac Lady Who Brings Her Tambourine to Church?
• Chapter Five: Jesus, Why Am I Getting Fatter and Meaner?
• Chapter Six: Jesus, Today We Voted to Take a Jackhammer to Your Big Church
• Chapter Seven: Jesus, We’re Loading Our Squirt Guns to Charge Hell Again
• Appendix One: The Junk Drawer
• Appendix Two: Distinctives of Larger Churches
• Notes
• About The Publisher
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