Endorsements

“Hirsch has discovered the formula that unlocks the secrets of the ecclesial universe like Einstein’s simple formula (e=mc2) unlocked the secrets of the physical universe. There are some books good enough to read to the end. There are only a few books good enough to read to the end of time. The Forgotten Ways is one of them.”- Leonard Sweet (from the foreword)

“With The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch has brought us closer to the reality of seeing a true apostolic church-planting movement in the West. This is a seminal work that will change our thinking, our vocabulary, and hopefully our way of being the church in this new century. I have already read the book twice and will probably devour it again.” -Neil Cole, author ofOrganic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happensand Cultivating a Life for God

“A full-blooded and comprehensive call for the complete reorientation of the church around mission. Nothing less than the rediscovery of a revolutionary missional ecclesiology will do for Alan Hirsch. A master work.” -Michael Frost, coauthor ofThe Shaping of Things to Come and author of Exiles

“Every chapter has the kind of rich insight and inspiring challenge that we have come to expect from Alan Hirsch.” - Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, and The Story We Find Ourselves In

“A fascinating and unique examination of two of the greatest apostolic movements in history (the early church and China) and their potential impact on the Western church at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The book may well become a primary reference book for the emerging missional church.” - Bill Easum, Easum, Bandy & Associates

“It is refreshing to read a book relating to the missional church that provides theological depth coupled with creative thinking. The Forgotten Ways helps to rescue the concept of church from the clutches of Christendom, setting it free to become a dynamic movement in place of a dying institution.” - Eddie Gibbs, coauthor of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures and author of LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture

“The Forgotten Ways is a compelling challenge to awaken the church’s innate entrepreneurial instinct and propel it into the fringes of our emerging culture. I recommend it highly, especially to those endowed with the boldness to align the church’s operating system with the missional heart of God. ” - Andrew Jones, www.tallskinnykiwi.com

“There are few books that one can describe as markers in the field of mission - this is one such book. It is essential reading for all those who are grappling with the key issue of what the church can and must become.” - Martin Robinson, author of Planting Mission-Shaped Churches Today

“This is a provocative and insightful contribution to the discovery of effective missional engagement with post-Christendom Western culture. Grounded in Alan’s own experience as a missionary pastor and illustrated by examples from various places, The Forgotten Ways challenges and equips both inherited and emerging churches to recover the dynamic of a missional movement.” -Stuart Murray Williams, author of Church after Christendom and Changing Mission: Learning from the Newer Churches

“It is AD 30 all over again. While many church leaders are trying desperately to retrofit institutional expressions of Christianity in hopes of achieving better results, Al Hirsch helps us understand the necessity for us to reengage the movement in its primal missional form. ” - Reggie McNeal, author of Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders and The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

“With a scholar’s attention to detail and the critical lessons of history, as well as a first-century missionary’s creative passion, Alan Hirsch recalls us to a faith life that is flexible, fast-moving, and unbound. He rescues the term ‘missional’ from the mass grave of church buzzwords in the process.” - Greg Paul, author of God in the Alley: Being and Seeing Jesus in a Broken World; founder and director of Sanctuary Ministries in Toronto.

“Alan has been shattering paradigms and challenging ideas for years. Now, in The Forgotten Ways, Alan describes missional movements and challenges us to reorder the church around its mission, all filtered through his deeply personal experience. You will be provoked, challenged, and motivated to embrace the missional DNA and incarnational impulse of the early church in your own life and ministry.” - Ed Stetzer, author of Breaking the Missional Code and Planting Missional Churches

“With evangelical churches, even “successful” ones, ministering to an ever declining slice of the population, this is a book that must be read and pondered. Alan Hirsch’s analysis is on target historically, biblically, and theologically. The age of Christendom is over, but a renewed age of true Christian movements and discipleship is dawning. Churches and leaders who don’t pay attention to the analysis presented here are liable to be deceived into a Christianity that is either locked in the passing Christendom mode or, conversely, lost in mere emerging fads. The biblically based and Jesus-centered focus of this book makes it stand out above dozens of other books on similar themes.” - Howard A. Snyder, author of Radical Renewal, The Community of the King, and Models of the Kingdom

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