10.23.07

Treasure…

Posted in ekklesia, emergence, formation, mission at 12:00 pm by len

In our first day of classes with Roland Kuhl at ACTS Roland mentioned the title by Lois Barrett and Darrell Guder and Walter Hobbs: Treasure in Jars of Clay: Patterns of Missional Faithfulness. He described it as a follow up work to Missional Church. That caught my attention, because that first volume is one of the few “must reads” on my list for the past ten years.

The book is published by Barclay Press, and a short review is written by Jon Kerschner. He writes,

“The conviction of the authors is that “the church does not exist for itself, but for participation in God’s mission of reconciliation” (hence the term missional) in whatever context the church finds itself (p. ix). The cohesiveness of this conviction would seem to imply that the authors are themselves homogenous, but this is far from the case. Among the authors are men and women of several different denominations, ages, and professions.

“Like the authors themselves, the congregations profiled in Treasure in Clay Jars are a diverse group ranging from a small United Methodist church to an inner-city charismatic church, a large suburban church, and a Roman Catholic parish, among others. After profiling the congregations, the book is divided into eight chapters, one for each “pattern of missional faithfulness,” with each pattern illustrated by specific examples from the profiled congregations.”

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