Being the People of God Missional Ecclesiology for Uncertain Times
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Paul Bradbury is a pioneer minister, freelance researcher and writer, and a visiting tutor with the Church Mission Society and Ripon College Cuddesdon. Isabelle Hamley is Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Andy Smith is a team rector and serves on the Church of England Ministry Experience Scheme national steering group.This collection of essays, stories and reflections brings together two Christian imperatives which all too rarely encounter one another: ‘Being missional’ and ‘Having an ecclesiology’. The conversation that results is stimulating, provoking, and full of the Spirit of God. It has much to offer to pioneers, planters and fresh expressers, to pastors, liturgists and parish savers, and even to bishops.
- Michael Ipgrave,
If our missionary imagination is formed in an echo chamber, we shouldn’t be surprised at tired, predictable or divisive results. This timely volume is the opposite: not an echo chamber but an open conversation around shared tables. Reading it I found my thinking expanded, my assumptions challenged and my faith lifted. Taken as a whole, the essays illustrate a generous breadth of ways to be a missional church, but also the fundamental unity of the Spirit’s work in it all. This, plus a host of inspiring and authentic stories, make it a worked example of the mixed ecology at its creative best.
- Mark Powley,