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    Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
    Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
    Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
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    Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form

    Written by Brian Sanders and Alan Hirsch

    Narrated by Mark Smeby and Gabe Wicks

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    What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission?

    Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expression of the church has been quietly growing. It's something of an experiment, but over the last ten years the church has been validating its ideas with sustained and growing results. At The Underground, being the church is not focused around a weekly gathering or church programs. It's about empowering individuals to respond to God's call to ministry and mission, especially to the poor and disadvantaged in our midst.

    While many churches talk about discerning calling and engaging in mission, very few are structured to make this their ministry focus. Underground Church is a new vision for the church rooted in its biblical mission to share the love of God and serve the poor. Sanders explores how to make structural changes, how to think about leadership, how to fund ministries, and how to truly engage people in God's mission. Filled with creative insights, he explains what it means to center the mission of the church around the callings of individuals to outward ministry - whether that involves leading Bible studies in the workplace, feeding the homeless, or working to free women and children from sex trafficking.

    This book will both tell the inspiring story of a church that is rethinking what church looks like while also outlining and uncovering the principles that transfer for every church and Christian community that hopes for more. It's the true story of a 10-year experiment that unpacks the possibilities of a church structured and streamlined for mission.

    Additional illustrations, charts, and The Underground manifesto are available through the audiobook companion PDF download.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9780310098843
    Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form
    Author

    Brian Sanders

    Brian Sanders is founder and Executive Director of the Underground Network. He holds an MA in Religious Studies from the University of South Florida, and an MTh in Applied Theology awarded by the University of Wales and Spurgeon's College (London). He is the former State Director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Florida and the author of Life After Church. Brian has lived with his wife and 6 children in intentional community in the same inner city neighborhood for 20 years, embodying the ideas that drive him.

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    • 5/5
      Well written, though provoking, and well read. I enjoyed it!
    • 5/5
      Such a great explanation of what's wrong with the prevailing model of church. Also, great ideas for how to fix those problems.
    • 5/5
      What a telling of the story of this band of innovate kingdom missionaries?! Thought Proking. Challenging. Inspiring.