Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship

by Alan Hirsch; Debra Hirsch

Publisher:

Baker

, 2010

Overview

It’s time to get serious about discipleship. In this provocative and compelling book, internationally known missiologists Alan and Debra Hirsch cast a dynamic vision of mission-shaped discipleship. Untamed exposes the idolatrous clutter that fills our lives and seeks to recapture what it means to be authentic followers of Jesus. Each chapter ends with suggested practices to help you start living out the book’s principles, as well as questions for group discussion.

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Key Features

• Reinvigorates the personal walk with Christ
• Discusses how you can recapture what it means to be authentic in Christ
• Provides practical ways for the reader to implement influential changes within day-to-day life

Contents

• The Untamed God
• Jeebus Made Me Do It
• Your God Is Too Sick
• The Spirit’s Edge
• The Untamed Culture
• Kultcha-Schmultcha
• The Church That Jesus Built
• Refocusing the Family
• Untamed Self
• The Lying Mirror
• Too Sexy for the Church?
• The Untamed Mission
• Going Out, Going Deep

Top Highlights

“this kind of movement allows for a sense of belonging before believing” (Page 154)

Praise for the Print Edition

Untamed is a desperately needed shot of spiritual adrenaline into our mild-mannered and mediocre attempts at following Christ.

—From the foreword by Rick Warren, founder and senior pastor, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA

Depending on who you read, Jesus has been represented (and reduced) to a social activist, a tortured reformer, or a cavalier teacher. Against the background, Untamed is refreshing, grounded, thoughtful . . . tantalizing.

—Reggie McNeal, missional leadership specialist, Leadership Network

The demand for an intelligible path toward discipleship is one of the greatest needs of the post-Christendom church. In Untamed, Alan and Debra deliver beautifully.

—Gabe Lyons, co-founder, Catalyst

In this bold, compelling, and inspiring work, Alan and Debra Hirsch . . . share with readers a captivating vision of the true Messiah. All who are unsatisfied with the boring safety of their tame Christianity need to read this book!

—Greg Boyd, senior pastor, Woodland Hills Church, St. Paul, MN

Product Details

• Title: Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship
• Authors: Alan Hirsch, Debra Hirsch
• Series: The Shapevine Series
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Church; Missions
• ISBNs: 9781441257093, 9780801013430, 1441257098, 0801013437
• Resource ID: LLS:NTMDRCTVTNGMSSN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:56:41Z

About the Authors

Alan Hirsch is founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and leader of Future Travelers. He is the author of numerous books, including The Forgotten Ways and Untamed.

Debra Hirsch is a minister at Tribe of LA, an eclectic bunch of missional artists and vagabonds in downtown LA. She is also on the leadership team of Christian Associates International, a church-planting agency working on three continents.