Kevin Cawley, the resident blogger-guru on missional ecclesiology, has a great little summary of Missional Church - a book by Darrell Guder. It is short, informative and a heckuva lot easier to read than the original that was posted on GOCN. A little teaser:

Chapter 1. The church is missional, not by its sending out of missionary ventures but by its life as a community sent by God into its place in the world.

Chapter 2. The context for the recovery of missional identity in North America is one in which the modern world shaped by the Enlightenment is fast becoming a postmodern one in which truth, self, and society are differently conceived. [ Read More ]