I'm approaching the halfway point of our book of the month, Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders by Earl Creps. So far I'm enjoying his personal stories of how ministry techniques from traditional training wasn't working as well as he'd hoped, and that connects for me because of my own ministry experience. This book is helping me to look beyond the hard work of classic spiritual disciplines, like prayer and Bible study, which I personally might have worked too hard at, becoming burdensome and legalistic, and helping me to look at what's going on in the attitudes of my heart and soul.
2 recent book reviews bring out good reflections, one from Bill Kinnon:
I wasn't prepared to love this book but I did. It's the first book in years that I've read through more than once. If, like me, you're a boomer coming to terms with the missional conversation or a missional millenial trying to understand boomers, this book is for you. I believe it's an important addition to the missional spectrum of books - especially for those of us who aren't just navigating the post-evangelical wilderness (an iMonk phrase) but who are also Post-Charismatic.
And one from Faith-Journey.com by Paul Bowman, who facilitates the spiritual formation ministry at Calvary Assembly of God in Dover, Delaware:
Off-road Disciplines is not a book that you skim through or read quickly hoping to find quick little nuggets. In my opinion, some chapters carry more weight and impact than others, but each one has an important message worth reading and digesting fully. Furthermore, this is a book that is meant to be applied to life, not just read and put on the shelf. Each chapter issues a challenge to the reader to examine themselves and use the off-road discipline as a means of transformation.
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