This book is an examination of the ways the Church does mission in the (post)modern world. It is a book on post(modern) missiology. Missiology is simply the study of the ways we extend the Gospel to those who don't know it.
In chapter one, Hirsch details his own journey from coming to faith and beginning church work during the Jesus Movement of the 70s to coming to grips with the failure of their work in their church in Melbourne to truly effect change in people's lives and then to how what they have come to now that they think is the best way to do mission now.
Hirsch details three things a church must do:
1. Engage missionally in the world - be involved with what God is doing
2. Develop deep, broad, and authentic worship
3. Make disciples, which are people who are learning how to live Christ-like lives
Hirsch says that if you succeed on the last point the other two will follow.
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