TFW: one year later

Folks, The Forgotten Ways was released 1 Jan, 2007. As we are about to hit the one year anniversary, I am rapped to report that it is listed as Brazos‘ top selling book at the moment! All in all, the book has been extremely well received and, according to sales, very widely read. I am genuinely honored. Thanks all who have bought the book and engaged the ideas in it. Brazos (a division of Baker Books) has also agreed to release a workbook to go with it. I am working on that as we speak. Not sure about release date (it will be a while) but it will really make the primary reference book sing in local settings. My great hope is that it will now really begin shape the needed conversation on missional-incarnational movements in the West.

December 30, 2007 | Filed Under TFW |  

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14 Responses to “TFW: one year later”

  1. Peggy on December 30th, 2007 12:48 pm

    Congratulations, Alan! So proud to be numbered among your friends.

    Looking forward to this workbook…but your Facebook says you’re maxed out working on three writing projects…is this one of those that has you in over your head?

    Blessings to you and Debs for a New Year filled with wonderful opportunities to serve our Lord.

  2. DareM on December 30th, 2007 2:47 pm

    Likewise Alan,
    GRATZ!
    Thanks for helping to take the missional/incarnational conversation in a direction it needed to go.
    Happy New Year!

  3. Alan Hirsch on December 30th, 2007 5:04 pm

    thanks guys. Yeah Pegs it is. I am finishing off the book on missional Christology (mainly editing now), writing with Neil Cole and Wolfgang Simson on Eph 4Open Link in New Window ministry, and the workbook. And I have writer’s block!! Not a pretty sight!

  4. Penney Winiarski on December 31st, 2007 2:02 am

    My local book store did not have, “The Forgotten Ways” in stock. I have been impatiently waiting 2 weeks for it to come in. With 5 days off from work it would have been perfect.

  5. Alan Hirsch on December 31st, 2007 3:12 am

    Punish them by ordering from Amazon or Christianbook.com Penney. :-)

  6. Ant on December 31st, 2007 5:45 am

    It’s a great book - really helped me focus some issues and hone some plans for planting in the coming year…
    Thanks.

  7. Charlie J on December 31st, 2007 6:26 am

    Big Al,

    Congrats mango! I can imagine that this is very encouraging to your writing/teaching efforts.

    your bro-
    CJ

  8. Eduardo Buck Schmidt on December 31st, 2007 6:26 am

    Alan, any plans to have the book published in Portuguese? What about the APEST test, any plans to offer it in other languages? I would love to be able to share this stuff with people from our church.

  9. Alan Hirsch on December 31st, 2007 7:03 am

    Eduardo, I have tried to find a translator into Spanish, but to no avail. Publishers will support a good translation, but they also want to be sure to recoup money from a big enough market. There are efforts to translate into German. Shaping has just been translated into German.

    APEST is easier and yet more problematic in some ways. The test is nuanced for English speakers, but even there cultural differences can change the way people answer it. It has taken over three years to get it right…which is the current version. More work in there than meets the eye.

  10. Wes Roberts on December 31st, 2007 1:19 pm

    …congratulations, St. Alan!!!

    …hurry up with the workbook. :-)

    …and the Jesus book.

    …when will you next be back in Denver? Whenever, could we grab some time together?

    …prayers continuing for you and your bride!!!

  11. Bob Harrington on January 2nd, 2008 3:48 am

    Great news Alan, as you shared with me, it was like the Holy Spirit was writing the book through you - I felt, in reading it last winter, that it is one of the most important books in recent times. May more and more leaders read it!

  12. brian hofmeister on January 2nd, 2008 12:33 pm

    I picked up and read Shaping of Things to Come roughly six weeks ago and am two chapters into Forgotten Ways. Your material is helping me deconstruct a lot of baggage. Thanks for the books; thanks even more for opening dialogs with this blog.

  13. Mike Zook on January 4th, 2008 5:14 am

    Congrats! I appreciate your ministry here at TFW!

  14. Matt Stone on January 5th, 2008 12:42 am

    Well done mate

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