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The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out Without Selling Out
Reformation is the continual reforming of the mission of the church to enhance God's command to reach out to others in a way that acknowledges the unique times and locations of daily life. This engaging book blends the integrity of respected theoreticians with the witty and practical insights of a pastor. It calls for a movement of missionaries to seek the lost across the...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
September 23rd 2004
by Zondervan
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Driscoll uses extreme examples and edgy language to make his points. This is not a book or a review for the undescerning.
Introduction: tremendously helpful to see how Christian movements can become meaningless without the church, the Gospel, and culture working together. I completely disagreed with Driscoll in his assessment of Fundamentalism, at first.
Part 1: Addresses our addiction to the appearance of morality and encourages us to use our freedom in Christ to do mission (rightly singular as t...more
Introduction: tremendously helpful to see how Christian movements can become meaningless without the church, the Gospel, and culture working together. I completely disagreed with Driscoll in his assessment of Fundamentalism, at first.
Part 1: Addresses our addiction to the appearance of morality and encourages us to use our freedom in Christ to do mission (rightly singular as t...more
Mark Driscoll balances on the fine line between conservatism and liberalism in the church.
His methods are too liberal for the fundamentalists (good), and his doctrine is too conservative for the post-modern/emerging crowd (also good).
His methods are too liberal for the fundamentalists (good), and his doctrine is too conservative for the post-modern/emerging crowd (also good).
I am not quite sure what to think of Mark Driscoll. Before I had even read his book The Radical Reformission, another friend described Driscoll as the "cussing" pastor. My friend claims that Driscoll is known to drop questionable language in his sermons. That sounds like a classic generation X or Y-aged pastor who is pushing cultural relevance, but I don't know what is true about Mark Driscoll. Just look him up on Google sometime. He draws a heated reaction from every side of the religious debat...more
Mark Driscoll’s The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out presents a unique and important challenge to Christians living in the United States. In it, Driscoll contends that the American Church maintains the erroneous notion that missions can only be conducted in foreign lands. This view ignores that fact that the United States is filled with people who have yet to commit themselves to Christ and life in the Church. It is in light of this that Driscoll proposes a “radical reformi...more
Reformation is the continual reforming of the mission of the church to enhance God's command to reach out to others in a way that acknowledges the unique times and locations of daily life.
This engaging book blends the integrity of respected theoreticians with the witty and practical insights of a pastor. It calls for a movement of missionaries to seek the lost across the street as well as across the globe.
This basic primer on the interface between gospel and culture highlights the contrast betw...more
This engaging book blends the integrity of respected theoreticians with the witty and practical insights of a pastor. It calls for a movement of missionaries to seek the lost across the street as well as across the globe.
This basic primer on the interface between gospel and culture highlights the contrast betw...more
This is Pastor Mark Driscoll's debut and it's still good in my mind, there's a lot to thinking about here for traditional and emergent churches alike. Traditional churches tend to avoid selling out, but they don't reach out and far too many emerging/emergent/contemporary churches have reached out and sold out, losing hold of the truth about sin and salvation in order to extend their reach. Christians should be concerned with evangelizing the unbelieving people around them. The tension is the sam...more
This was a very interesting and refreshing read about mission in the United States. I can understand completely why the Mars Hill church is so successful.
Driscoll has a great way with words and imagery that makes his points very clear. The introduction was the best part; a tear-down of a lot of problems with Christian culture in general and its approach to non-Christians. He identified pretty much every problem I've ever had with Christian mission, and showed the way around those problems.
The id...more
Driscoll has a great way with words and imagery that makes his points very clear. The introduction was the best part; a tear-down of a lot of problems with Christian culture in general and its approach to non-Christians. He identified pretty much every problem I've ever had with Christian mission, and showed the way around those problems.
The id...more
As always, Mark Driscoll puts out a great book.
This deals with how to reach out to the culture without selling out the Gospel. This is mostly geared toward the American culture but the ideas and principles can be used for any culture.
Basically it is about how to walk the fine line of reaching a lost world without falling into the two traps that many Christians fall into.
He makes the point that many Christians will either fall into being a Pharasee or Essene where God but retreat from culture and...more
This deals with how to reach out to the culture without selling out the Gospel. This is mostly geared toward the American culture but the ideas and principles can be used for any culture.
Basically it is about how to walk the fine line of reaching a lost world without falling into the two traps that many Christians fall into.
He makes the point that many Christians will either fall into being a Pharasee or Essene where God but retreat from culture and...more
Jul 30, 2011
James (JD) Dittes
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Every minister with a publishing deal seems to have a similar, condescending tone toward established religion. It's to the point where, frankly, I would expect any truly "rebellious" treatise could say "Go to a church, find a way to fit into the community there."
Driscoll is fascinating because he's so hard to pigeonhole. Just when you think he's a liberal Christian who engages culture in the bars and discusses oral sex with his members, he's a conservative Christian, calling out sin in his cultu...more
Driscoll is fascinating because he's so hard to pigeonhole. Just when you think he's a liberal Christian who engages culture in the bars and discusses oral sex with his members, he's a conservative Christian, calling out sin in his cultu...more
This is Mark Driscoll's first book, and he is challenging how we conventionally think about evangelism in America. George Barna states, "If all the unchurched people in the U.S. were to establish their own country, they would form the eleventh most populated nation in the world." Our churches are failing to spread the Gospel effectively. As Driscoll points out, "The churches in our neighborhoods may be more akin to museums memorializing a yesterday when God showed up in glory to transform people...more
Driscoll's debut book contends that as believers we must be concerned about three things: the gospel, the church, and the culture. When we neglect one of these three elements, we fall into one of three errors:
The Church + The Culture - The Gospel = Liberalism
The Church + The Gospel - The Culture = Fundamentalism
The Gospel + The Culture - The Church = Parachurch
I think this is slightly reductionistic, but it still provokes reflection. Driscoll's book is a plea for the church to be faithful to the...more
The Church + The Culture - The Gospel = Liberalism
The Church + The Gospel - The Culture = Fundamentalism
The Gospel + The Culture - The Church = Parachurch
I think this is slightly reductionistic, but it still provokes reflection. Driscoll's book is a plea for the church to be faithful to the...more
Sep 10, 2011
Donald McKinnon
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5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
must-reads,
church-leadership-and-development
Driscoll is and can be a very blunt and abrasive speaker and his writing is some of the same here. Driscoll takes you through paces as he describes doing outreach in your neighborhood without selling out as many do. You will laugh as he describes going into some places a pastor is never thought of or the world thinks he should never be.
This is a raw look at what Driscoll describes as the new reformation in the Church, a reformission, as the Church turns its eyes back outwards to the hurting and...more
This is a raw look at what Driscoll describes as the new reformation in the Church, a reformission, as the Church turns its eyes back outwards to the hurting and...more
This is the basic primer for Driscoll thinking - and what it means to be missional.
It is well written and challenging. There are plenty of things to quibble about - but its a great encouragement to allow/force ourselves to think outside of the boxes we so typically sequester ourselves in. It confronts our prejudices and preconceived notions about people (especially unbelievers) in light of Christ's example and imperatives to us about discipling the nations. It takes seriously the importance of...more
It is well written and challenging. There are plenty of things to quibble about - but its a great encouragement to allow/force ourselves to think outside of the boxes we so typically sequester ourselves in. It confronts our prejudices and preconceived notions about people (especially unbelievers) in light of Christ's example and imperatives to us about discipling the nations. It takes seriously the importance of...more
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Driscoll definitely put together a winner with this one. The Radical Reformission is his presentation of what being the church means in our emerging world, and he writes with passion, verve, and a wit well equal to that of Douglas Wilson. In so many ways I am right here with him, nodding my head in agreement. His chapter on culture is wonderful, filled with helpful correctives in all directions, including a refreshing refutation of the "garbage in, garbage out" mentality of many Christians. That...more
Feb 19, 2008
Gordon
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I think I would have enjoyed "Radical Reformation" by Mark Driscoll more had I not just read his "Confessions" a couple of days before. Don't get me wrong, I think "Radical Reformission" is very good. If "Confessions" is the biography of Driscoll's church, then "Radical Reformission" is their philosophy of ministry. I should have just spaced them out more, but I highly recommend this book for anyone who is trying to understand how to better engage their culture for Christ.
Driscoll offers some ve...more
Driscoll offers some ve...more
Dec 01, 2007
Paul Brown
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people who love Jesus and want to love their neighbors better.
This was my first book on missional topics, and Driscoll's book on reformission was helpful as a challenge to live and think missionally in culture. Driscoll stresses that since people do not exist apart from culture, we need to understand and relate to them in that context. He seems to specially challenge evangelicals who have overly distanced themselves from the world and ignored culture while also giving strong critiques of "emerging"-type Christians who have been swept up in culture and lost...more
This is a very good read, particularly in its emphasis of the necessity to care for the church and to engage with the culture, and suggestions on how to do that wisely. At times, it borders on crass and homophobic. Driscoll needs to check his heart and see whether some of his turns of phrase are really necessary to make his point, but overall this is an excellent read and a vital one of this generation.
Good advice for "reaching out without selling out." We all love to read the specifics of someone else's success as a simple how-to, but every situation is different (as Driscoll illustrates). It's more about our attitude and our vision. We work out our own specifics with the wisdom of Christ. The real challenge is to talk less about evangelism "specifics" and actually do it.
A challenge to conservative Christians who tend to "follow the rules", this book discusses how to effectively reach out to unbelievers. Rather than setting rules that are not scriptural, and then expecting new Christians to conform, we should make the gospel relevant to culture. This does not mean breaking God's law, but rather not adding to God's law but using the aspects of our culture to relate to others. For example, drinking alcohol, tattoos, and smoking are often frowned on by conservative...more
Heh and 2 stars in 2005....
Now I would give it 3 or 3.25. It was a lot like i remember it when I read it just after becoming Christian. However, it was different. I think I see more of what Mark is aiming at within the "Reformed" and "Calvinistic" churches. Lazy people love Calvinism, or become lazy through a false understanding of Sovereignty. But the Doctrines of Grace should make the reformed churches the most active in the world of unbelief. Instead we hunker down in camps arguing about the...more
Now I would give it 3 or 3.25. It was a lot like i remember it when I read it just after becoming Christian. However, it was different. I think I see more of what Mark is aiming at within the "Reformed" and "Calvinistic" churches. Lazy people love Calvinism, or become lazy through a false understanding of Sovereignty. But the Doctrines of Grace should make the reformed churches the most active in the world of unbelief. Instead we hunker down in camps arguing about the...more
Driscoll's first book, one of his best. Practical and down to earth -- very raw (who would have thought Driscoll has mellowed since then, but he has). A manual for living as missionaries to our own culture. He has a gift for simply and starkly pointing out the implications / commands of the gospel that we all know but do not live by. Loved the 'signposts' on how the gospel connects with culture, loved the 'belonging before believing' evangelism, loved the 'high/folk/pop' cultural analysis stuff....more
You won't find anything new here if you're a regular listener to Driscoll's podcasts, but this is a well-structured presentation of Driscoll's theology, with plenty of memorable illustrations and humor. It's too mean at times, but I think most people should be able to look past that to see Driscoll's insights into postmodern culture.
Really liked the book and helped get the focus back on reaching out to the lost. He sometimes seems to skirt the edge of becoming a bit too much like the world to reach the world, but I definitely think that the traditional church is so far from that right now it could use a good bump in that direction.
Very similar to "confessions" perhaps with a few more humorous stories. Like what happens to Mark when he gets diharia(sp?) while preaching...I won't spoil it for you. Again a pastor just being honest about the triumphs and failures in building a church in the most unchurched area in America.
Tremendous book, very thought provoking. The author looks specifically at the ministry of evangelism in modern America and identifies specific issues of cultural adaptation necessary for ministry in a post-Christian era. Terrific insight! A must read for every believer.
This book caused me to think about how Jesus truly reached out to the world, instead of seeing Him through my more "proper" and "religious" grid. He did some radical things for his time, but we are so used to seeing it through the eyes of religion. Very enjoyable.
One of the best books I read in seminary. Driscoll combines humor with clarity in his call to engage the world with the gospel without compromising truth in the process. An important in the discussion about the relationship between church and culture.
Excellent material, written in an engaging style, with plenty of real-life examples. I would take issue with some of the cultural norms that Driscoll seems to regard as neutral, but I agree with the principles he urges.
Great book to be used as an introduction to what being "missional" looks like. Pastor Mark does not forsake the timeless truth of the gospel, but shows what it looks like to seek to share the gospel today in contextual ways.
This is my first Mark Driscoll, what an education! I was impressed with the fact that although he is radical, he didnt seem off in his own world at all but spoke with understanding...very cool
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Mark A. Driscoll is the founder and teaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, as well as the co-founder of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network where he also served as President for a short period. Driscoll continues to serve on the board of Acts 29. He has contributed to the "Faith and Values" section of the Seattle Times and the "On Faith" section of the Washington Post.
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