Coming soon: The CONVERGENT CHURCH!
I am excited to announce my new book, coauthored with SEBTS Ethics prof Mark Liederbach, is actually ahead of schedule and will likely be released in late 2008. The book, THE CONVERGENT CHURCH: Missional Worshipers in an Emerging Culture, aims to do what its title says, to pull the best from the conventional church and the emerging church movement to argue that both have things to say for the church in our world. Mark comes from a non-SBC background, is a theologian, and spent much time in parachurch ministries. I am SBC bred, am more of a practitioner in my focus, and have spent much time serving churches or preaching across the country as an itinerant. So, Mark and I had a convergence ourselves in the writing of this book, and we hope the same kind of focus can emerge (yes I used that word) with the result of a renewed focus on an unchanging gospel lived and shared in a missional way. Keep an eye out for excerpts of the book in the coming days.