Description
Book SynopsisShows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed - restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms, and neighborhoods. This book offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it.
Trade Review"...for Christians who are asking deep questions." (
Church Times, Friday 21st December 2007)
Table of ContentsAbout Leadership Network xi
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Introduction xxi
Part One: Roots of the Organic Church 1
1. Ride Out with Me! 3
2. Awakening to a New Kind of Church 17
3. The Zombie Bride Lives! 31
4. A Dangerous Question 47
Part Two: The Organic Nature of the Kingdom of God 59
5. Kingdom 101: You Reap What You Sow . . . and You Eat What You Reap 61
6. An Enchanted Kingdom with Magic Seeds, Fast-Growing Trees, and a Beautiful Bride to Rescue 83
7. We All Began as Zygotes 91
Part Three: From the Microscope to the Telescope 107
8. Mapping the DNA of Christ’s Body 109
9. Epidemic Expansion Starts in the Genes 123
Part Four: The Epidemic Kingdom and How It Spreads 141
10. It Takes Guts to Care for People 143
11. Me and Osama are Close 159
12. The How-To of Spreading the Epidemic 171
Part Five: The Call to Organic Church 193
13. Falling with Style 195
14. Tales That Really Mattered 207
Notes 219
Acknowledgments 225
About the Author 227
Subject Index 229
Scriptural Index 235
