Monday, November 13, 2006
Just finished my weekly school chat with my cohort. Fun times. This week, we were honored to be joined by Alan Hirsch, co-author of the awesome book, The Shaping of Things to Come, and solo author of the forthcoming The Forgotten Ways. Good guy, and very good book. A lot of it is an expansion of stuff that was in the other book, but he throws down some very good new concepts as well. Without giving too much away, he makes a couple of really good arguments.
First, he discusses a latent missional impulse that lies within all followers of Jesus, and all communities of the Kingdom. Awakening that impulse is the major task of our time. When it happens, there will be movement.
However, he argues that movement will be toward the edge of chaos, where real change will go down. Equilibrium brings death. Chaos ignites energy within us to be the kinds of people that do the right stuff.
If you'd like to chase some of these thoughts a bit, go to Hirsch's website, and check out his blog while you're at it.
The book will be out in January.
