Customer Reviews
Really? - By: J. Mccormick, 25 Nov 2008 
At the start I found this book interesting, which it is. But, I think it makes very sweeping & generalizing statements about the 'traditional church' many of which seem to be unfounded, or made on the basis of one visit. Some of the things they were suggesting seemed plausible, others not so. I would recommend reading this book if you are interestingin the church of this century, but I myself did not enjoy, or agree with a lot of the things they said.
The book we have been waiting for on mission in a contmporary context - By: Forth Write, 21 Jun 2006 
Utterly excellent - at last a book which has the honesty to say of our modern context 'we're not at all sure how to do mission' but then takes some important principles & expands them to help us dream about what mission may look like. Rather than imposing a blueprint, rather than saying 'this is what the world is like & this is how you have to be missionary' - it said to me 'take time to discover your world & then listen to what God may be saying into your context'
Stepping out of a world which we Christians effectivly described into onein which all our 'language of description' often seems to be Martian is most disorientating. This book says 'yes it is isn't it - here are a few tentative suggested first steps'.
Attractional vs Incarnational - By: Matt Wilson, 31 Aug 2005 Finally, a book which offers a real alternative to the contemporary church leadership mindset. Frost & Hirsch's most important pointin this book which contains so much good stuff, is that Christ's desire for his people, the church, is to be a transforming presencein the world - an Incarnation. They illustrate,in slightly tonguein cheek fashion, the way that the church has signed up pretty much wholesale to an Attractional model of church - essentially tipping the great commission on its head, turning Christ's 'Go' into 'Come'.
I really hope loads of church leaders read this book & begin to realise that attracting people to their building is totally NOT what their job is about, Jesus came to destroy the temple & rebuild it out of living stones.
