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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, which grew from as few as 25,000 adherents in AD 100 to up to 20 million in AD 310. Such incredible growth is also being experienced today in the church in China and other parts of the world. How do they do it? The Forgotten Ways explores the concept of Apostolic Genius as a way to understand what caused the church to expand 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.


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Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network. His experience includes mission and church planting to the marginalized as well as leading at the denominational level. He is coauthor of The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Forgotten ways .. and hope.. Recovered, May 13 2009
By Leonard Hjalmarson (Kelowna, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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It isn't often that an author follows up a first release with a book that equals or surpasses it. Alan Hirsch has managed that feat with The Forgotten Ways.

The book is divided into two broad sections. Section 1 is "the making of a missionary." Alan tells his own story, a journey from attractional-evangelistic models to incarnational-missional practice. This section contains a lengthy introduction and then two chapters. Section 2 is "a journey to the heart of apostolic genius." In this section Alan works out what he calls missional DNA (mDNA). There are many points of contact with Neil Cole and some with Howard Snyder, both of whom made use of the DNA analogy, but Alan is more intent on fleshing out a missional ecclesiology than was Neil Cole, and his direction is both broader and more focused than Snyder's in "Decoding the Church." There is also some significant resonance with Alan Roxburgh's "The Sky is Falling," particularly with regard to the use of "liminality" and "communitas" vs "community."

Section two comprises 8 chapters and then a lengthy addendum and short glossary. All told the book is 288 pages in length.

Alan opens with the question you may have seen elsewhere:how did the early Christian movement go from roughly 25,000 members in AD 100 to roughly 20 million two hundred years later? More critically, how did they accomplish this without buildings, a coherent Scripture (other than the first testament), no professional leaders, no seeker sensitive services, youth groups, or worship bands.. and while the church was under persecution! (we probably wouldn't have even the membership we have today if that element was suddenly introduced).

Now, Alan doesn't anchor his reflection only in the early church. The church in China experienced nearly the same growth rate under similar conditions. Leaders killed or imprisoned, unable to use or build large meeting halls, no leadership training, almost no access to the bible etc. In his introduction Alan offers a foretaste of what is to come. He outlines six elements of mDNA:

* Jesus is Lord
* Disciple Making
* Missional-Incarnational Impulse
* Apostolic Environment
* Organic Systems
* Communitas instead of community
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a must read for those who want church without religion, Sep 11 2008
By Gordon Kubanek (Canada) - See all my reviews
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this is a must read for those who want church without religion.
alan unearths via the examples of the early church and china how the fundamental nature of christianity is anti-institution and anti-earthly power/politics and when it falls into these traps it starts to decay
thus what he has to say if VITAL to rebuilding a new church in the west.
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