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A very PROVOCATIVE and INFORMATIVE book! It is an argument worth serious consideration given the problems associated with the clergy/laity dichotomy that continues to exist in so many of our churches today." --Craig Van Gelder, professor of congregational mission, Luther Seminary "The Permanent Revolution is an example of the kind of theological work that is urgently needed to 'equip the saints for the work of ministry' apostolically, prophetically, evangelistically, pastorally, and instructively." --From the Foreword by Darrell Guder, Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology "Hirsch and Catchim have opened up the difficult issue of leadership, imagination, and gifting with no holds barred. If you care about leadership and mission you will want to grapple with this book." --Martin Robinson, president, Springdale College; National Director of Together in Mission "The Permanent Revolution ... is a well- researched and thoroughly engaging study of the dynamic that Jesus planted at the heart of the church and now calls us to rediscover." --Steve Addison, Australian director, Church Resource Ministries; author of Movements That the Change the World "Outside the New Testament, in this one man's humble opinion, The Permanent Revolution is the seminal work on apostolic ministry." --Rob Wegner, pastor, Life Mission Granger Community Church; lead catalyst, EnterMission; experience director, Future Travelers; author, Missional Moves

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The Permanent Revolution The Permanent Revolution is an original work of theological re-imagination and re-construction that draws from biblical studies, theology, organizational theory, leadership studies, and key social sciences. The book elaborates on the apostolic role rooted in the five-fold ministry from Ephesians 4 (apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers), and its significance for the missional movement. Throughout the book, the authors propose a revolutionary missional ecclesiology that is shaped by the New Testament account of apostolic imagination, ministry, and strategy. The aim is to reclaim the ministry by which the church is to remain centered on its calling to be the instrument of God's mission, and that everything it is and does ought to relate to and demonstrate that calling. To (re)capture the practice of apostolicity, the authors explore how the apostolic ministry facilitates ongoing renewal in the life of the church and focus on leadership in relation to missional innovation and entrepreneurship. They examine the nature of organization as reframed through the lens of apostolic ministry and explore how apostolic leadership provides new and missionally creative ways forward. The Permanent Revolution is filled with challenging concepts and is replete with innovative ideas. Rather than providing a prescriptive model for leadership, it offers spiritual prods and suggestive thought experiments that are designed to stimulate imagination as well as action. If faithful leaders are to take up the work of ministry as laid out in the New Testament, this book offers a significant pathway to help equip them to better fulfill their mission.

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Hardcover: 368 pages

Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (February 28, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0470907746

ISBN-13: 978-0470907740

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In The Permanent Revolution, Allen Hirsch and Tim Catchim argue that the five-fold ministry gifts that Paul mentions in Ephesians 4:11 are needed in the church today. Their shorthand for these five gifts is the acronym APEST, which stands for Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd (Pastor), and Teacher. In particular, they emphasize the need of the modern church to have apostles, who, because of their gifting for taking the Gospel into new contexts, are equipped by God to create a permanent revolution in the church.The first part of the book outlines the roles that each of the five-fold ministry gifts play in the body of Christ. The apostles are the custodians of the churches DNA. They extend the church into new ground. They tend to be entrepreneurial risk takers. The prophets are guardians of faithfulness. They call “all to live faithfully in covenant relationship with God” (29). The evangelist is one who recruits to the cause. They are always “looking to create a positive encounter between people and the core message of the Gospel” (35). They are exceptional recruiters, social connectors, and sharers of Good News. The shepherd (Hirsch and Catchim use the term shepherd instead of pastor) focuses on creating empathic community. Their job is to create “a healthy community, with nurturing people in the faith, and caring for the welfare of the people” (43). The job of the teacher is to bring wisdom and understanding.The second part of the book examines the role of the apostle in great depth. Unfortunately, the apostle has been neglected in the modern church. This is because some have worried that having modern day apostles subtracts from the role the original twelve apostles played in writing the cannon of Scripture. Hirsch and Catchim make clear there are no textual grounds for the apostolic to be eliminated (259). Hirsch and Catchim argue that “Apostles, then and now, have an irreplaceable purpose in maintaining ongoing missional capacities, generating new forms of ecclesia, and working for the continual renewing of the church…” (99). The apostle is a pioneer, a planter, a bridger, and a builder (106). The apostle plants churches, oversees, strengthens churches, develops leaders, ordains ministers, supervises and coordinates ministries, manages crisis, and networks with other ministries (106). Hirsch and Catchim believe the apostle interprets the Gospel, is an agent of doctrinal integrity, is a designer, and innovator, a change agent, a net worker, and a founder (106).Hirsch and Catchim see a difference between apostles like Paul and apostles like Peter. Paul was a pioneer and Peter was a miner and both types of apostles are needed today. Pauline apostles extend the mission of the church, they explore, they operate cross culturally, and operate as entrepreneurs. Petrine apostles reframe the identity and mission of the church, they focus on refounding the church. Both types of apostles are custodians, networkers, architects, guardians, translocal, and manage meaning (122).According to Hirsch and Catchim, apostles, prophets, and evangelists will dominate the early cycles of a moment. Later, the shepherd and the teacher will take over. In an effort to seek equilibrium, pastors and teachers often push out apostles, prophets, and evangelists. But the apostolic gift is needed to recreate and extend the organization from time to time. The apostle works to preserve the core and stimulate progress (149). This book argues that the apostle serves as the entrepreneur and innovator of the church. Entrepreneurs have an internal freedom to explore, a sense of holy dissatisfaction, a capacity for ideation, an ability to take on risk, permission and the space to experiment, entrepreneurial intensity, and dogged resiliency (166-170). These qualities give apostles the ability to continually recreate the church for changing cultures and to extend the Gospel into areas that have not been exposed to the message of Christ.The Permanent Revolution defines a missional church as an apostolic church. The word “mission” comes from the Latin term missio which means “sent.” The Greek term is apostolos (ἀπόστολος) which means “sent ones.” It is the root of the word “apostle.” God is a missionary God. He sends His Son. In the same way that God sent His Son, He now sends believers. Every believer is “one who is sent” out into the world. In this sense, every believer is on a mission and could be called a missionary. Believers on a mission gathered together form a missional church. To be a fully functioning church, these believers need APEST leadership.EvaluationAccording to his bio, Alen Hirsch is “known for his innovative approach to mission. [He is] considered to be a thought-leader and key mission strategist for churches across the western world.” He is on the associate faculty at Wheaton College. He leads a local church movement called “Forge Mission Training Network.” Tim Catchim “functions as a multi-functional entrepreneur.” He has started both businesses and churches. He serves as a coach and consultant for V3 Movement, a church planting organization. His position as both an entrepreneur and a minister makes him uniquely qualified to examine the role of the apostle.The purpose of this book is to bring back the role of the apostle to the church today. In this purpose, the authors are successful. It would be hard, even for those who deny that apostles exist, to argue with the persuasive arguments of Hirsch and Catchim. They make it obvious that apostolic gifting is needed today if the church is going to survive in a post-modern world.It is refreshing to hear someone from mainstream evangelicalism talk about the need for apostles in the church today. Far too many reformed theologians believe that the need for apostles died out when the cannon of Scripture was completed. This lack of apostleship makes the church weak and anemic. But, the work done in this book is thirty years behind where the Charismatic church is. Spirit-empowered churches are full of apostles, prophets, and evangelists. Charismatic churches have always taken the five-fold ministry gifts very seriously and they teach about them prolifically. Hirsch rejects the ideas of C. Peter Wagner and the New Apostolic Reformation but instead of rejecting them, perhaps he should listen to them since their focus on apostles mirrors Hirch’s own and predates his interest by decades. Perhaps instead of calling them “charismaniacs,” (xxi) he should conclude that the reason why they are growing exponentially is precisely because they believe strongly in apostolic “superpastors.”One problem with APEST theology is that the original Greek of Ephesians 4:11 does not support a five-fold ministry but rather a four-fold ministry that combines the pastor/teacher into one gift. Another flaw with APEST theology is that Ephesians 4:11 is only one of several lists that Paul makes of gifts in the body of Christ. Romans 12:6-7 talks about the gift of prophecy, ministry, teaching, exhortation, giving, leading, and showing mercy. 1 Corinthians 12:28 mentions “first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.” Hirsch and Catchim believe that “what is being referred to in Ephesians 4 is something more substantial, more permanent, and more decisive” (25) then these other lists. However, not every member of the body of Christ fits into the five-fold ministry. This fact renders their analysis and their APEST test to be substantially lacking.The Permanent Revolution has an underdeveloped understanding of the evangelist. Hirsch and Catchim write, “Although a historical case can be made for itinerant evangelists who roam far and wide, it seems that most evangelists operate in close relationship and proximity to a local congregation…” (65). They write, “evangelists are unlikely to wander too far from home base, they are what we call supralocal” (65). This author knows dozens of evangelists, and few of them stay put in one location. Evangelists tend to have an itch to travel to preach the Gospel, similar to Philip the evangelist in Acts 8 who preached first in Samaria, then on the desert road, and then in Caesarea. In fact, many of the qualities that Hirsch and Catchim attribute to the apostle more closely fit the evangelist. In their effort to build up apostolic ministry, they downgraded evangelistic ministry.Hirsch and Catchim write, “seminaries are the very bastions of the shepherd-teacher type of ministry” (258). They decry the professionalized elitism that often results from seminary training (240). I agree with them that little in seminary targets the unique needs of the apostle, prophet, or evangelist.Overall, this is an excellent book. The understanding of Hirsch and Catchim of apostolic ministry is unparalleled. Two thousand years ago, the church was built on the foundation of the apostles and as Hirsch and Catchim make clear, apostles are still needed today. This book is an excellent read for anyone who wants the church to continue to be relevant for the next two thousand years.

Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim have produced an incredible, call to action for the Church in the West to heed. Though they humbly submit their work, "The Permanent Revolution", as a beginning correspondence in the coming conversation about apostolic and missional movements, the authors write from years of experience in the frontiers of apostolic imagination and have also done their due diligence in research.Alan and Tim declare that in order for the Church to rediscover the culture of New Testament movement, momentum, and multiplication, the ecclesia needs to be rooted in the ministry model found in Ephesians 4:11 of "Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds, and Teachers" (APEST).As they make clear, the biblical foundation for the church is Jesus, the cornerstone. But it is the generative gifts of apostles, and prophets who create a catalyst for renewal, reformation and revolution to take place. Such an apostolic atmosphere will create an environment for the workings of the other APEST ministries to flourish.Alan and Tim make a strong argument that ministerial leadership based on anything but the fivefold model of Ephesians 4:11, will not prosper to the full extent that Jesus had intended for the Church. This can seem quite controversial considering the popularity of the shepherd/teacher model that has dominated church history in the West. That is why I consider "The Permanent Revolution" to be both apostolic and prophetic in nature, for it calls the Church to repent from neglecting the APE ministries, in favor of the ST paradigm, and turn to a recovery of the complete Ephesians APEST model. Nothing else in Christ's ecclesia is so drastically needed for the Church to fulfill Her partnership with God in the misso Dei.As a missional leadership coach for churches, I truly appreciate the authors desire to integrate theology, sociology, psychology leadership studies, and the organizational sciences to present a holistic understanding of apostolic leadership. I also resonated with much of what was written because like Alan, my APEST profile is ATPES.The author's articulated difference between Pauline and Petrine apostolic ministry characteristics are crucial for understanding the work of a church planter and a church consultant. As a "pioneer and networker", I tend to fall more in line with the Pauline model at heart, but I definitely also serve as a Petrine apostle, agitating the church into recovering it's missional nature.In a similar vein to the cry of the Reformers, Alan and Tim offer a new slogan to illustrate the ongoing renewal of theology and practice in the redeeming grace of our King Jesus, "Viva la revolucion permanente!" -The Permanent Revolution.

This book freed me up to follow Jesus the way that He has called me to. Not every devoted disciple should seek to become a pastor. The biggest dis-service we can bring to the church and world is to try to fit the mold... Try to be something we're not. Isn't this a HUGE part of what is turning people away from the American church? God is bigger than our narrow minded view of what the church is supposed to be like... We're here to represent Jesus, and that requires MANY different roles to be played. Jesus was not only the Good Shepherd and rabbi (teacher), but He was the ultimate apostle - sent by the Father... The ultimate prophet - shining the truth in to every cultural setting... And the ultimate evangelist - communicating the gospel more clearly and effectively through His life and ministry than anyone ever has or will.As a church leader, I can see myself using this as a resource for the remainder of my ministry on earth, helping the body of Christ to grow in to the fullness of Christ, as we look forward to the full revelation of Jesus.

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