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Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

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Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

By: Mark Driscoll
Narrated by: Art Carlson
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 This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle’s innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America’s fastest growing churches located in one of America’s toughest mission fields. It’s also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he’s made along the way, and God’s grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll’s emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he’s not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches. Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church’s ministry, no matter its present size. The book includes discussion questions and appendix resources. “After reading a book like this, you can never go back to being an inwardly focused church without a mission. Even if you disagree with Mark about some of the things he says, you cannot help but be convicted to the inner core about what it means to have a heart for those who don’t know Jesus.”—Dan Kimball, author,The Emerging Church “… will make you laugh, cry, and get mad … school you, shape you, and mold you into the right kind of priorities to lead the church in today’s messy world.”—Robert Webber, Northern Seminary Christianity
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Would you consider the audio edition of Confessions of a Reformission Rev. to be better than the print version?

I liked the audio version as I never get enough time to read and often sit in traffic!
The voice of the guy is a bit american, but you soon forget

What did you like best about this story?

His honesty and it makes me feel better for feeling some of these things

What does Art Carlson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Not sure

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When he said he was preaching when he was ill, and had the runs...but carried on for a futher 40 mins!! so funny!

Any additional comments?

Very light hearted and humble look at his mistakes

Brilliant and refreshing

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I generally like Mark Driscoll, but this book has not aged well. I wrote a long review, but deleted it in the end because I do think Mark loves Jesus and is trying to do the right thing. I don't want to be another critical voice tearing the church apart with words, we have an enemy who is good enough at that without my help. But skip this book, it's not helpful and there are much, much better books you could be spending your time on.

This has not aged well

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