The sequel to
Pagan Christianity
by Frank Viola and George Barna
IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Frank Viola's new book REIMAGINING CHURCH is now available on Amazon.com, Family Christian Stores, Barnes and Nobles, and Borders.
Go to http://www.ReimaginingChurch.org for sample chapters and other resources.
This is the constructive follow-up to the bestselling book
PAGAN CHRISTIANITY, co-authored with George Barna.
Here's what others
are saying about
REIMAGINING
CHURCH.
“In Reimagining Church, Frank Viola is at the top of his game, showing a serene, soaring mastery of the theology of church as organism rather than organization.”
- Leonard Sweet, author of Soul Tsunami, Soul Salsa, and 11
Note: Leonard Sweet, Professor at Drew Theological School and George Fox Seminary, is making Reimagining Church required reading for his seminary students. (Sweet was voted one of the top 50 most influential Christian leaders last year at #8.) Sweet says, "It's one of the best things out there about organic church. Frank really understands organic. I love this book. I'm requiring it of my doctoral students, everybody I see. I'm kind of an evangelist now for REIMAGINING CHURCH" (Napkin Scribbles, "Authentics", August, 2008).
“Dissent is a gift to the Church. It is the imagination of the prophets that continually call us back to our identity as the peculiar people of God. May Viola’s words challenge us to become the change that we want to see in the Church ... and not to settle for anything less than God’s dream for Her.”
- Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution, activist, and recovering sinner (thesimpleway.org)
“True to form, this book contains a thoroughly consistent critique of prevailing forms of church. However, in Reimagining Church, Frank Viola also presents a positive vision of what the church can become if we truly reembraced more organic, and less institutional, forms of church. This is a no holds barred prophetic vision for the church in the twenty-first Century.”
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-Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways and The Shaping of Things To Come
“Frank not only pulls fresh insights out of well-known concepts, but also keeps challenging us to go back to basics and focus on Christ himself. Thank you, Frank! This practical book will identify what church can look like when it is focused on Jesus.”
- Tony Dale, author and editor of House 2 House magazine, founder of The Karis Group
“Reimagining Church is a valuable addition to the resources being produced on the subject of organic churches. Written from the perspective of a long-time practitioner, Frank conveys these concepts with his usual clarity and insight and covers many of the practical aspects of starting a church. I recommend this book to anyone interested in organic church.”
- Felicity Dale, author of An Army of Ordinary People and Getting Started: A Practical Guide to Starting Simple Churches
“Reimagining Church will be certain to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed at the same time. Frank Viola cuts through the fog by putting his finger on the problems of man-made churchianity, while providing a solidly biblical, practical, and strategic vision for a powerful New Testament expression of the body of Christ.”
- Rad Zdero, PhD, author of The Global House Church Movement and editor of Nexus: The World House Church Movement Reader
“Reimagining Church is a readable (and livable!) description of organic, New Testament-rooted church life for the twenty-first century. Avoiding the weeds of both wooden fundamentalism and unreflective over-contextualization, Frank Viola paints a winsome and attractive portrait of a gospel people, inhabited by the Holy Spirit with God in Christ as their energetic center. Frank helps us learn from the peculiar genius of Jesus and his earliest followers, planting seeds for authentic, deeply rooted life together.”
- Mike Morrell, Graduate Fellow in Emergent Studies, MA in Strategic Foresight, Regent University; zoecarnate.com
“The body of Christ has been stifled by human traditions for far too long. Reimagining Church charts a fresh course for the church that recovers the simplicity of Christ and listens seriously to what the voice of the Great Shepherd is saying to His people.”
- Jon Zens, editor, Searching Together and author of A Church Building Every ½ Mile: What Makes American Christianity Tick?
“If Pagan Christianity? exposes the reality that much of our current church practice has little basis in the Bible, Reimagining Church takes the next step to establish what truly biblical church life looks like. With the inner life of the Trinity as the starting point, Viola paints an amazing picture of organic church life.”
- John White, community facilitator, LK10: A Community of Practice for Church Planters
In Acts 2, Luke described a church where everyone shared their possessions, had everything in common and was devoted to practices like fellowship and prayer. If you’ve looked around the modern Church and wondered where that kind of gathering is hiding, we suggest you read “Reimagining Church,” which will help form your convictions into revolutionizing thoughts. Frank Viola, a leader in the home-church movement for 20 years, lays out the complicated issue of “redoing church” in a tangible and practical way, never skimming over the hard issues like unity, authority, and spiritual status quo. Spilling over with relevant scriptures and illustrations, Viola’s convictions are sure to challenge and excite you.
- Relevant Magazine, September/October, 2008.
“Get REIMAGINING CHURCH today...it’s better than any of us could have imagined and will do The Body good!”
-Michael Tummillo, Founder of The Church @ Work and author of
8 Things I Hate about Jesus.
