 | Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £2.95 Exploring a faith that's more like a trampoline than a brick wall. Written in a style that's kinda.......... just......... like.......... how......... Rob speaks............
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 | The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren
Buy used from: £1.24 What is the gospel? The bible says "Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom of God". It's evidently much bigger than getting people to say the sinners prayer. A fresh read. Well recommended.
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 | Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.50 |
 | The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Alan Hirsch
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £6.93 A great insight on missional church. Both the early Church and the Chinese church had no bibles, premises nor complicated structures and yet they transformed the world. Is there another way?
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 | Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Frost
Buy new: £11.02 / Used from: £5.05 |
 | Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community by Ed Stetzer
Buy new: £16.19 / Used from: £3.55 |
 | Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures by Eddie Gibbs
Buy used from: £9.32 What an emerging church looks like in practice. Full of examples from the horse's mouth. The product of several years research on both sides of the Atlantic.
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 | The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church by Michael Frost
Buy new: £8.24 / Used from: £4.57 A partner to the Gibbs/Bolger book. Looking at new forms of missional church with a bit of an Australian perspective.
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 | They Like Jesus But Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations by Dan Kimball
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £5.58 It's true, they do, says Kimball. Good read, with a bit of a US perspective.
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 | Off-road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders (JB Leadership Network Series) by Earl Creps
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £10.19 It's not by Dan Kimball, it's by Earl Creps. Emerging ministry from a pentecostal perspective. I like the bit about 'reverse mentoring', ie. youth to us older folks.
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 | The Complex Christ: Signs of Emergence in the Urban Church by Kester Brewin
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £4.24 |
 | Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope by Brian D. McLaren
Buy used from: £3.30 Explores and challenges the deeper systems and structures at play in our world and what Christ says to them. Develops themes presented in his previous book, The Secret Message of Jesus.
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 | Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live (Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith) by Will Samson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.50 |
 | The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin
Buy new: £11.35 / Used from: £15.68 One of the books that started it all off. Views on outreach in a changed world from an Anglican missionary to India of 40 years after his return to the UK.
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 | Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus by Mark Scandrette
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £8.79 |
 | The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £2.73 A cracking book by an author who walks the talk. Easy to read. Cheeky at times. Maybe the future is smaller, not bigger. Are you going to be part of the revolution?
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 | A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, ... Emergent, Unfinished Christian by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: £7.30 / Used from: £3.02 |
 | Surprised by Hope by Tom Wright
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £6.37 Wright explores the fantastic biblical vision of resurrection, new heavens and new earth and most importantly, how this affects how we live today. One of Wright's most readable books.
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 | The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community (JB Leadership Network Series) by Hugh Halter
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £9.96 |
 | The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (Emersion: Emergent Villages Resources for Communities of Faith) by Phyllis Tickle
Buy new: £7.02 / Used from: £5.79 Brian McLaren calls this, "one of the most important books of the year" for 2008.
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 | The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time by Tom Sine
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £7.72 |
 | How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins
Buy new: £6.77 / Used from: £4.18 A philosophy of the emerging church. Very provocative and you may not agree with everything here. But powerful stuff which definitely took me out of my safe zone.
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 | Chrysalis (Faith in an Emerging Culture) by Alan Jamieson
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