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Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016 In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again: is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation but by...

among the hurting and the wandering. In this half circle the question is never whether Christ is here or not. Rather it is whether his presence will be welcomed. All three circles are part and parcel of each discipline on the move. This is a pattern throughout the New Testament. The church gathers in its place of worship to encounter Christ’s presence. But this same church is sent out to extend his presence into our homes, our neighborhoods, and among the marginalized and hurting in the world. The
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