First Expressions: Innovation and the Mission of God

By Steve Taylor

Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions. Presenting the lived practice of the church in mission through a longitudinal lens, and eschewing the rose-tinted approach, it considers the reality of emerging churches - their birth and death, their creativity and conflict, their dreams and despair. A picture of a church that is neither gathered and parish nor independent and networked emerges as the biographies of mission are brought into dialogue with a very ancient expression of mission, the birth of Philippians as a first expression of church in Europe..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334058473
• ISBN13: 9780334058472
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"