I was honored to write the foreword for Dan White Jr.’s book, Subterranean: Why the Future of the Church Is Rootedness, so I can tell you that this is an important read. It is important because Dan writes from his lived experience. I will share some slices from the foreword in hopes that you will pick up the book and read it yourself. I’m writing you now because between now and October 16th you can get 40% off the book when you buy it at the publisher’s site. Enter the discount code ROOTED to get your discount.
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From the Foreword
After talking about the important art of asking questions, I write, “As you read this book, you will discover that Dan White Jr. is adept in the art of asking careful but potent questions. Throughout this book, he asks questions that will provoke us to look at the underlying assumptions we have about ourselves, our ministry ambitions, and about how to be the church in the world. As a prophetic pastor, Dan is willing to ask difficult questions of himself first, and then pose them to the world around him, potentially turning it upside down. Dan is interested in more than tipping over the apple cart with questions; he is interested in helping the church find the way of Jesus.”
“The questions weaving through Subterranean are pointing us to the concrete person of Christ, not an abstract idea. When we see Jesus, we see God ‘taking on flesh and bones and moving into the neighborhood.’ Dan employs the tool of good questions to help us recover this Jesus-like posture…”
The first part of Dan’s book deconstructs some of the more popular understandings of the church today. It is important to work through this part of the book thoroughly before you get to Part 2. For “before solid reconstruction can take place, deconstruction must do its work.” But you can be assured that when Dan gets to part two, he gives some life giving ways and patterns of what it means to be a church that is rooted in the neighborhood.
“The church is in a desperate state and this book will not pummel you with cool ideas; instead, it will unfold the essential character for what the kingdom of God looks like sprouting up in a local place.”
I commend this book to you. Subterranean is one of the more important books needed in our current context in North America. We need to read and apply the wisdom in this book if we want to be healthy leaders that start and sustain faithful churches.
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