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Stefan Paas develops a missional spirituality for secularized contexts in the West. There is probably a critique in the book for all of our mission traditions and approaches but it comes from a place of care and honest reflection. I found myself welcoming the challenges he offers. ... It is a book that is very grounded in biblical stories and metaphors. It is also a book that has something of a sigh of relief about it - it's ok to be small and faithful as Christian communities in the midst of an often indifferent world. This is a book I will be coming back to again and again. -- Jonny Baker ... an unflinching analysis of the place and role of the church in the secular West ... He gives us a fresh take on evangelism and witness, and a compelling missional vision for small Christian communities in our secular culture... Inspiring, challenging and immensely helpful. -- Cathy Ross, Lecturer in Mission, Regent's Park College, Oxford With this missional ecclesiology Paas carries out masterfully his intention to define what it means to be a missional Christian community in a post-Christian society. ... This book will quickly become a basic text for missiological research and curricula while refreshing the conversation in ways that surprise, delight, and stimulate. -- Darrell Guder, Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary

Stefan Paas develops a missional spirituality for secularized contexts in the West. There is probably a critique in the book for all of our mission traditions and approaches but it comes from a place of care and honest reflection. I found myself welcoming the challenges he offers. ... It is a book that is very grounded in biblical stories and metaphors. It is also a book that has something of a sigh of relief about it - it's ok to be small and faithful as Christian communities in the midst of an often indifferent world. This is a book I will be coming back to again and again. -- Jonny Baker

Drawing on the bible stories of exile and diaspora Stefan Paas develops a missional spirituality for secularized contexts in the West... I found myself welcoming the challenges he offers. He opens up a way of being faithful, of being church with the metaphor of pilgrim and priest. There is a quite brilliant discussion of intercultural missiology that has evangelism at its heart but is not instrumentalist in nature. It is a book that is very grounded in biblical stories and metaphors. It is also a book that has something of a sigh of relief about it - it's ok to be small and faithful as Christian communities in the midst of an often indifferent world. This is a book I will be coming back to again and again. -- Jonny Baker

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Stefan Paas is J.H. Bavinck Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Professor of Missiology at Theologische Universiteit Kampen. He has published extensively, in both Dutch and English, on Biblical Theology, Public Theology, and Missiology. His books include Church Planting in the Secular West: Learning from the European Experience (Eerdmans, 2016) which was selected as one of the ten “outstanding books on missiology” by International Bulletin of Mission Research and one of the five “outstanding practical theological books” by the journal Practical Theology.

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