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Here are the books which have been formative to the vision of the “new kind of church.” Look around, maybe you will find a book that can help form you too.

In future weeks, you will be able to order the below books through this page.

Enjoy the Ride!

Emerging Voices
A New Kind of Christian by Brian Mclaren
The Story We Find Ourselves In by Brian Mclaren
The Last Word and the Word After That by Brian Mclaren
Generous Orthodoxy by Brian Mclaren
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Bible Study
An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
The New Testament and the People of God by N.T. Wright
Four Gospels, One Jesus? by Richard Burridge
Matthew and the Margins by Warren Carter
The Meaning of Jesus by N.T. Wright and Marcus Borg (For Advanced Readers)
The Message a Bible translation in today’s language by Eugene Peterson

Methodism
John Wesley’s Sermons: An Anthology Edited by Outler and Heitzenrater
The Evangelistic Love of God and Neighbor by Scott J. Jones
Practical Divinity by Thomas Langford

Devotionals
Hearing God through the Year by Dallas Willard
Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner
Nearer to the Heart of God by Bernard Bangley

Prayer and Spiritual Disciplines
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
The Sacred Way by Tony Jones
Thoughts on Solitude by Thomas Merton
The Confessions by St. Augustine
Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli

Relationships
His Needs, Her Needs by Willard F. Harley Jr.
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

“Thirst is made for water;

inquiry for Truth.”

-- CS Lewis,
Mere Christianity