Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church
May 2009 · Zondervan
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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
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April 15, 2010
Originally intended to read this book to get a better understanding of who Mark Driscoll is but was pleasantly surprised to take away much more. The "emergent church" title gets thrown around so much in the postmodern world of growing churches and is very rarely understood with much depth. Read this book if you would like to understand why Mark would define Mars Hill as a church that is missional in its purpose to reach lost people. It is is also placed in a very emerging culture and the church is very aware of how that affects how they reach the lost people in their communities. Mark's early church has stories are very entertaining and he is quite the talented writer. This book is great to pick up both for enjoyment of a young pastor focused on spreading the word of God and understanding the ecclesiology of Mars Hill.
Angelo G.
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March 13, 2019
Interesting and insightful. Love hearing about the honest challenges of planting a church. Driscoll is an incredibly gifted preacher and contextualizes the bible in a great way.
MentalStateWorld1991
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August 6, 2017
Awesome book , by a awsome Man of God. We need more leaders like him today!!!
About the author
Mark Driscoll is one of the 50 most influential pastors in America, and the founder of Mars Hill Church in Seattle (www.marshillchurch.org), the Paradox Theater, and the Acts 29 Network which has planted scores of churches. Mark is the author of The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out Without Selling Out. He speaks extensively around the country, has lectured at a number of seminaries, and has had wide media exposure ranging from NPR’s All Things Considered to the 700 Club, and from Leadership Journal to Mother Jones magazine. He’s a staff religion writer for the Seattle Times. Along with his wife and children, Mark lives in Seattle.
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