Recommended Reading

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A Failure of Nerve, Edwin H. Friedman Analysis of the systemic

leadership failure of all institutions in America, particularly churches,
during this age of high anxiety, fear orientation, and addiction to data
rather than adventure.

American Nations, Colin Woodard Analysis of the various cultures which

comprise North America. Helpful for understanding why the religious
receptivity of the US varies among different regions and people groups.

Bad Religion, Ross Douthat A post-mortem on American civic religion.

Building a Discipling Culture, Mike Breen and Steve Cockram Practical

suggestions about forming a community self-replicating disciples.

Christianity Rediscovered, Vincent Donovan (* Classic) Donovan, a

Catholic priest to the Masai in East Africa, renounced all mission work that
used Western Christianity as the road map of how a newly formed church
should look, and suggests that as we disciple others we must allow new
communities of faith to develop their own practices and their own style of
church.

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Church Planting Movements, David Garrison A summary of the core
principles and common practices of multiplying movements of Christians
worldwide.

Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo Why foreign aid has created so much long
term damage in Africa.

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life in

Christ, Peter Scazerro Scazerro, a church planter, pastor, husband and
father, writes about the integration of emotional health and
contemplative spirituality.

Follow Me: A Call to Die; A Call to Live, David Platt A follow-up to

Plattes earlier book, Radical, this book is an invitation to become like
Jesus: to trust him completely and to enter into a relationship with him,
marked by self-denial and intimacy, and to experience the purpose for
which we were called.

Friendship at the Margin, Christopher Heuertz and Christine Pohl

How to discover the power of mutuality in mission.

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 From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, Ruth Tucker Brief stories of the major
missionaries and kingdom workers who took the gospel to much of the
world.

God is Red, Liao Yiwu A secular journalist investigates the story of the
survival and expansion of the Christian faith in communist China.

Godly Servants: Discipleship and Spiritual Formation for Missionaries,

David Teague Divided into three parts: 1) Growing spiritually by loving
God through communion,' 2) loving people through community, and 3)
serving God through ministry.

Miraculous Movements, Jerry Trousdale Principles and stories of the

growing disciple making movements in North Africa

Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples, Francis Chan & Mark Beuving

Great tool for being and making disciples of Jesus Christ. Check out also
http://www.multiplymovement.com

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Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, David
Platt Ways to involve your church in radical commitment to taking the
gospel to and serving the unreached and underserved nations and
cultures of the world

Serving with the Poor in Africa: Cases in Holistic Ministry, Tetsunao

Yamamori Principles of effective service among the poor

Simply Jesus, N.T. Wright Rethinking what Jesus was about from a
fresh look at a historically and culturally informed read of scripture.

The Bible Made Impossible, Christian Smith Why seeking to be

Biblical is problematic.

The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch Back to basics and the original
approaches to Christian community and evangelism

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 The Great Omission, Dallas Willard How missionaries have overlooked
the spiritual gifts and potential of the local believers to do appropriate and
sustainable ministry

The King Jesus Gospel, Scot McKnight Rethinking the gospel and church
for a post-modern, post-Christian world where the church is no longer in a
culturally privileged position.

The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South,
Phillip Jenkins Describing the nature and depth of the Christian faith in
the two-thirds world.

The Next Christians, Gabe Lyons What will the church that reaches
and is lead by millennials look like?

The Next Christendom, Phillip Jenkins Why the church of the future
will not have a white face come from the traditional western powers.

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The Shaping of Things to Come, Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost New
ways of thinking about church and approaches to evangelism
The White Mans Burden, William Easterly Why western efforts to rescue
the world have failed.

Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds (latest edition), David

Pollock and Ruth Van Reken a study of children who grow up in
countries other than their passport and who, in spite of differences of
background, seem to have some common characteristics and common
bonds that shape and impact their world view and their course of life.

When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert How to minister
in developing countries without causing more problems than we solve.

Why The West Rules for Now, Ian Morris Why England/western
cultured conquered China/eastern culture instead of the other way
around and why that is a temporary reality.

You Lost Me, David Kinneman Why young people are leaving
American churches and where they are going.