TY - JOUR
AU - Cronshaw, Darren
AB -  There is a mushrooming of literature on the missional church, but little that focuses on what is distinctly the theology, nature, and working of apostolic leadership that stimulates missional imagination, champions innovation, and gives a lead in pioneering new expressions of church. The Permanent Revolution helps fill the gap. Alan Hirsch is founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and co-leader of Future Travelers, a program for American megachurch leaders fostering missional movements. Considered a key strategist and leading thinker on Mission to the Western World, his previous books include The Forgotten Ways and The Shaping of Things to Come, co-authored with Michael Frost . His co-author here is Tim Catchim, a church planter currently leading Ikon, a network of missional communities in Tennessee. Hirsch and Catchim argue that Jesus intended the church to be a “permanent revolution,” borrowing the Trotskian term to describe the ideal of ongoing renewal and movement. A simple solution for the church to grow and mature, in terms of its capacity to represent the mission of Jesus, is the synergism of the apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, shepherding and teaching (APEST) roles of Ephesians 4. The book outlines the biblical basis of APEST ministry, bemoans 
TI - The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st-Century Church . By Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim. Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series. San Francisco, California, US, Jossey-Bass 2012. Pp. 368. $24.95.
JF - Mission Studies
DO - 10.1163/15733831-12341264
DA - 2013-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/the-permanent-revolution-apostolic-imagination-and-practice-for-the-1W55QFcCv4
SP - 113
EP - 114
VL - 30
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -