The Forgotten Ways

Missional Impulse

What factors come together to catalyze movements that reach exponential impact in the Kingdom?  Can the Church in the West rediscover something of the missional potency that seems to pulse through movements that transform their world?

In this book Alan Hirsch reveals the paradigmatic insights he discovered as he delved into those questions. He then translates these findings and interprets their significance for the contemporary Western church.

Hirsch identifies six latent potencies in God’s people that lie dormant and forgotten until something catalytic prompts the rediscovery of them. These elements are clearly seen in the church during times of phenomenal growth and impact, but he suggests that they are actually always present and can be reactivated to create apostolic movement. He describes them as the centrality and lordship of Jesus, disciple making, the missional-incarnational impulse, organic systems, apostolic environment, and communitas (a type of community formed in situations of significant ordeal and/or mission).

A key missional leader, educator, and strategist, Hirsch draws from his own experiences, as well as the experiences of ministries around the world, to provide examples of growing churches, church planting movements, and other missional projects.

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