In their book, On the Verge: A Journey Into the Future of the Apostolic Church, Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson argue that " the church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change.
Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to
stem the decline of Christianity in the West.
We are now facing the fact
that more of the same will not produce different results. Our times
require a different kind of church---an apostolic, reproducing, movement
where every person is living a mission-sent life.
Many of the best and
brightest leaders in the contemporary church are now making the shift in
the way they think, lead, and organize. Motivated partly by a vision of
the church as ancient as it is new, and with a driving desire to see
Biblical Christianity establish itself in Western cultural contexts, we
are indeed seeing a new form of the church emerge in our day.
Hirsch and
Ferguson call this 'apostolic movement' because it is more resonant
with the form of church that we witness in the pages of the New
Testament and in the great missional movements of history.
In this
book, Hirsch and Ferguson share a rich array of theology, theory, and
best practices, along with inspiring stories about leaders who have
rightly diagnosed their churches' failure to embrace a biblical model of
mission and have moved toward a fuller expression of the gospel.
On the
Verge will help church leaders discover how these forerunners and their
insights are launching a new apostolic movement---and how any church
can get involved.
-- Amazon Review
