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Leveraging the metaphor Ori Brafman popularized in his NYT best-selling book, The Starfish and the Spider, Wegner, Ford, and Hirsch show why the distributed structures of starfish organizations are uniquely fit to the church. Seeding starfish networks inside today's churches will prepare the church of tomorrow to be agile and effective.

Revolutionize the way you drink at home with simple recipes and common ingredients--no obscure liquors or fussy techniques needed--from the editorial director of Milk Street, J.M. Hirsch.

Choose your own cocktail adventure: Use the drinks you already love to explore a world of delicious new spirits, combinations, and flavors.

Two prominent thought-leaders in church planting and mission express a comprehensive vision for a truly apostolic---that is, mission-sent---future of the church. In an idea laden book, they relate inspiring accounts of churches recapturing the apostolic ethos and vision, and explain how a missional approach can bring wholesale transformation to ex

Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy. Hirsch addresses the failures of America's early education system and its impact on our current national malaise. He advocates for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught-- an educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen America's unity, identity, and democracy. Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance

Christians today are on a rescue mission. Each of us is called to get involved in God's plan to make disciples. A former California lifeguard, Neil Cole weaves together his personal experiences of saving lives with biblical principles for how to make and multiply disciples. Cole shows how to create Life Transformation Groups that can help a Christian grow in a safe and transparent relationship with one or two other spiritual pilgrims. Full of heroic and even humorous stories, Ordinary Hero captures readers' imaginations and hearts and doesn't let go until they want to make a difference and know how to go about doing it.

An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.S. democracy-presidential elections.

People in all walks of life are discovering what it means to be involved, concerned, missional Christians. But simply having block parties or spending more time downtown is not enough to describe what it means to be a missional people. What is needed is a reformation of the way we actually live our lives as Jesus followers. We need to see a way of living faithfully to God's mission in the world, right here, right now. In this inspiring yet practical book, Alan Hirsch and Lance Ford equip believers to live missionally regardless of situation, vocation, or location, making the concept of being missional accessible to the whole body of Christ. Touching on issues of discipleship, spirituality, and church at every level of experience, Right Here, Right Now calls readers to be the people God has made them to be.

Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church--a movement which grew from as few as 25,000 adherents in AD 100 to up to 20 million 200 years later. Similar meteoric growth has also been recorded in history and is currently being in many apostolic movements throughout the world today. How do they do it?The Forgotten Ways proposes the concept of Apostolic Genius as a way to understand what caused the church to experience exponential growth and impact at various times in history, interpreting it for use in our own time and place. From the theological underpinnings to the practical application, Hirsch takes the reader through this dynamic mixture of passion, prayer, and incarnational practice to rediscover the dormant potential of the modern church in the West.

Praktický průvodce pro rozvoj misijních sborů / Ve své velmi úspěšné knize „Zapomenuté cesty” mezinárodně uznávaný expert na misijní církev Alan Hirsch nabídl vizi pro budoucí růst církve s využitím moci rané církve. Příručka je zaměřená zejména na praxi. Nabízí způsoby, jak může každý misijně smýšlející člověk uplatňovat myšlenky obsažené v Zapomenutých cestách ve svém životě a službě. Většina církví začíná jako dynamické a vzrušující dobrodružství evangelizace a zakládání sborů. Na konci životního cyklu organizací ale nacházíme zpravidla nešťastnou a statickou instituci. Zdá se, že podstatnou součástí procesu hnutí je posun od raného nestabilního nerovnovážného stavu k stabilnímu rovnovážnému stavu. Raná léta většiny sborů či paracírkevních organizací bývají nepředvídatelná a dosti divoká, nicméně současně se jeví jako plná určitého druhu duchovní energie. Proč tomu tak je? Čím to, že nerovnováha stimuluje život a dodává energii? A čím to, že stabilita toto hnutí zřejmě dusí? Je to snad tím, že život sám je nepředvídatelný a chaotický, takže založíme-li organizace, které se snaží regulovat a minimalizovat životní nebezpečí, tyto organizace nakonec život zadusí? Dějiny misie skýtají jednoznačné poučení: Křesťanství se daří nejlépe na chaotické periferii. Když se církev usadí a vzdálí se od okraje chaosu, začnou se věci kazit.