Launching Missional Communities: A Field Guide

What is a Missional Community? Where did Missional Communities come from? How did they develop? How can your community begin launching and multiplying Missional Communities? This a practical, insiders look, giving you the tools to make MCs come alive in your church. Reviews: For years I have written about what the church of the future might look like. Consider this book one of the best around at getting to actually do the real thing. ---Alan Hirsh, author of The Forgotten Ways I have read heaps of books on Missional Church and Communities, but his book is by far the most practical and helpful thing I have read. Filled with theological background, case studies, practical help, and proven results. I highly recommend this.--Jon Tyson, Trinity Grace Church, NYC There's a lot out there on the theory, but not a lot out there on the practice. This is a practical field guide. If you're a leader and are looking to start, explore or experiment with Missional Communities, this book is for you.--Michael Stewart, VERGE Conference & The Austin Stone Pastors today - and I get letters about this - want more than a theology of mission or a missional theology, though they want that too. What they are asking for is a handbook, a field guide, about missional community formation. And they want a field guide from someone who has done it (not just talked about it or written about it) and who has done it long enough to have wisdom about it, and done it well enough to be able to teach it in ways that are both adaptable to a local context but theological enough to be sustainable. This is that book. And the publishers are to be thanked for making it look like and feel like a Field Guide. This is a one-of-a-kind book that will be the standard for all those wanting to form missional communities.--Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed