The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
• Published by: IVP Books March 30, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0830833846
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0830833849
• Book Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 11.2 ounces

From Publishers Weekly
Organized as a series of conversations, this book explores the lively edge of Christianity in the U.S. and the U.K. Sine, who wrote The Mustard Seed Conspiracy in the early 1980s, has always championed Christian subversives and exiles who act in small but significant ways to care for the poor and marginalized. This book begins by delineating four streams of Christian expression that greatly challenge the norms and assumptions of traditional churches. These streams—emerging, missional, mosaic and monastic—frequently flow into one another, and Sine does a fine job of defining them as separate but interdependent entities. Sine looks to these streams for tentative answers to several difficult questions, such as Did we get what it means to be a disciple wrong? and Did we get what it means to be the church wrong? As he explores these questions, Sine considers the context, particularly what he calls the global mall, in which the church must define and distinguish itself. Sine is unflinching in his assessment of Christian consumerism, but his tone is never angry. Rather, he exudes childlike enthusiasm as he shares example after example of Christians all over the world who are expressing their faith through profoundly countercultural acts of mercy, justice, love and compassion. (Mar.)
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Andy Harrington, executive director, Youth for Christ: Vancouver
"Tom Sine lays bare the church's Inconvenient Truth. Taking a broad overview of the challenges that we have to address in the twenty-first century, Tom has sounded a wake-up call that beckons us to reassess the way we have sold out to the values of modernity. Laying out an alternative future, this book is a bold challenge to all who think that the kingdom of God can be built from the starting point of compromise and comfort."

Reader Reviews
Tom Sine captures what many who have focused exclusively on one or another "stream" in the current context of the church have missed: the incredible diversity and creativity of various movements within modern Christianity. If you want a picture of the best of what the church has to offer the world not only today, but into the future, you should start at the frontier, which is where Tom has taken us. Since Mustard Seed Conspiracy through Mustard Seed Vs. McWorld and now in the New Conspirators Sine has kept his finger on the pulse of that place where church meets and engages culture in new and exciting ways. This is a must read for anyone who cares about the future of the church in a global, post-Christian world. Comment | | (Report this)