Deep and Wild: remissioning your church from the outside in

by Michael Adam Beck

For better or worse, Jesus entrusted his mission to “make disciples of all nations” to us, and it starts in our own neighbourhood. On the new missional frontier, being deep is not enough — God is calling forth some missional wild ones. We need to be deep and wild!

Across the United States and beyond, the God who makes all things new is up to something. Amid a Christian landscape that looks and feels like a desert of decline, new oases of the Spirit are springing forth. Inherited congregations with long histories and deep roots are experimenting with cultivating wild forms of church called “fresh expressions.”

Whereas revitalization often involves internal adjustments (an inside-out approach with better preaching, better coffee, better programs, etc.), remissioning through fresh expressions involves an outside-in approach. This book is a guide to help local church folks, the everyday heroes of the faith, make this much-needed journey toward vitality for the twenty-first-century church.

275 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Kerrie Highley · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a member of a church community, I know that church attendance is dropping and is pretty low compared to years past. We are struggling with what we can do to help people come back to church. This book explores the idea of moving the “church” outside the walls and into the community to reach people who haven’t wanted to be in a church building. The early churches were exactly what he describes in that it wasn’t so much about where they met as it was about being together and sharing the gospel of Jesus. I am challenged and intrigued by this way of worshiping and bringing others along side us without the perceived pressure of most churches.