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Sent Together: How the Gospel Sends Leaders to Start Missional Communities
Brad A. Watson enjoys encouraging, challenging, and helping followers of Jesus to live on mission in community by helping them connect the gospel with its implications to their daily lives. Brad serves as an equipping elder of Soma Culver City in Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his wife and their three children. Globally, he has the privilege of coaching and resourcing church leaders on how to form gospel-centered communities that love God and serve their cities. Brad is the author of the Together series of missional books (GCD Books) and co-author of Raised? Finding Jesus by Doubting the Resurrection (Zondervan). He also serves as a board member of Gospel Centered Discipleship. Connect with Brad at BradAWatson.com where he writes about community, mission, coaching, and leadership.
164 pages, Paperback
Published September 6, 2015
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Brad A. Watson
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Brad Watson serves as a pastor at Bread & Wine Communities in Portland, OR. He lives in inner Southeast Portland with his wife, Mirela, and his daughter, Norah and co-author of Raised? Finding Jesus by Doubting the Resurrection.
Brad Watson serves as a pastor at Bread & Wine Communities in Portland, OR. He lives in inner Southeast Portland with his wife, Mirela, and his daughter, Norah and co-author of Raised? Finding Jesus by Doubting the Resurrection.
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August 23, 2018
Of what I've read, this is the first book I would recommend to someone starting a small group, community group, missional community, or whatever you want to call it. Watson makes an outward, missional focus much more than a model of small group ministry-- he points it out as an overflow of the Gospel. Very practical. Very concise. Very rich in the gospel narrative.
The book is poorly formatted and poorly edited. That is a distraction. Also, some of his quotations are from theologians a little too liberal for my liking. There is a tinge of "emergent" that was a little worrisome, but not a deal breaker. Watson's experience is mostly in hipster, inner-city contexts, and this shows itself at a number of points, not for better or for worse.
The book is poorly formatted and poorly edited. That is a distraction. Also, some of his quotations are from theologians a little too liberal for my liking. There is a tinge of "emergent" that was a little worrisome, but not a deal breaker. Watson's experience is mostly in hipster, inner-city contexts, and this shows itself at a number of points, not for better or for worse.
February 19, 2019
Great Handbook on starting Missional Communities
January 9, 2016
Honestly, I feel like two stars is being generous, but because I understand the overarching intent of the book, I'll have some grace.
This book is very specific for churches who are attempting to launch "missional communities" as their model for small groups. The idea is that a group of people would choose to do life together as a family with a common mission to love a particular people group/part of the city in some functional, tangible way. The books is primarily targeted at MC leaders, and honestly, it's a great model. The book functions as a sort of handbook or manual for getting started. However, the book is so poorly written that it is distracting. The typos and blatant errors were innumerable, (we're talking multiple errors and typos on every single page). The whole entire time I was reading it, from beginning to end (so like, all of 2 hours?) I kept asking myself "WHO EDITED THIS THING?" Answer: no one. No one did.
BUT- If your type-A self can get past all that, the book describes well-enough what a missional community IS. And if in fact you had no idea what one was until you picked up this book, it could probably be useful for helping you think through the ways, functionally, to get started. I appreciate the aim of this book, I just think it was executed poorly.
This book is very specific for churches who are attempting to launch "missional communities" as their model for small groups. The idea is that a group of people would choose to do life together as a family with a common mission to love a particular people group/part of the city in some functional, tangible way. The books is primarily targeted at MC leaders, and honestly, it's a great model. The book functions as a sort of handbook or manual for getting started. However, the book is so poorly written that it is distracting. The typos and blatant errors were innumerable, (we're talking multiple errors and typos on every single page). The whole entire time I was reading it, from beginning to end (so like, all of 2 hours?) I kept asking myself "WHO EDITED THIS THING?" Answer: no one. No one did.
BUT- If your type-A self can get past all that, the book describes well-enough what a missional community IS. And if in fact you had no idea what one was until you picked up this book, it could probably be useful for helping you think through the ways, functionally, to get started. I appreciate the aim of this book, I just think it was executed poorly.
January 12, 2016
Great primer for the new leader of a Missional Community or even leaders who have been leading. In a succinct way, it covers the foundation as well as the practical. I would give it 5 stars, apart from the need for the book to be edited. There are many grammar mistakes, as well as formatting errors. Aside from this, it's a wonderful resource!
April 19, 2016
As someone who is in the process of starting a Missional Community, this book was very practical and helpful. I also appreciated the many stories including Brad's own transparent and personal story. If you're a church planter trying to start MC's, this is worth reading!
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