Alan Hirsch and Debra Hirsch, Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship. Baker Books, 2010.
Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Shapevine Series
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
Untamed is one of several volumes in the Shapevine Missional Series on missional spirituality and discipleship. Each conveys similar themes as their titles on Missional Communities and Missional Strategies.
Untamed contends that missional faith communities must intentionally capture the “untamed” and radical character of Jesus and the early disciples, challenging disciples to a “mission-shaped” lifestyle in areas such as finances, family, and sexuality. It looks at the distinctive lifestyle of missional disciples as a witness to the transformative power of the gospel.
From the Publisher
Discipleship is costly. Are we willing to critique and even challenge much we’ve been taught for the sake of the kingdom? For this is the radical nature of the discipleship to which Jesus calls us. He did not allow the outside culture to hold him captive; instead he established the kingdom of God and turned the world on its head. Jesus was untamed, and he calls his church to be the same.
In this provocative and compelling book, internationally known missiologists Alan and Debra Hirsch overthrow culturized understandings of theology and culture, and cast a vision for a distinctly mission-shaped way of living the Christian life.
Written for any Christian serious about issue of discipleship, Untamed covers such topics as church, humans as bearers of the image of God, family life, culture, and sexuality. Through it all they seek to answer the question, how are we to think and live day to day as followers of Jesus? Each chapter ends with suggested practices to help readers begin to live out the book’s principles as well as questions for group discussion.
About the Author
Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and co-founder of Shapevine. He is the author of The Forgotten Ways and The Forgotten Ways Handbook.
Debra Hirsch is a minister at Tribe of Los Angeles, an eclectic bunch of Missional artists and vagabonds in downtown L.A. She is also on the leadership team of Christian Associates International, a church-planting agency working on three continents.
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