Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index.

Section One: The Making of a Missionary -- Introduction -- A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Question -- A Sneak Preview -- Method in the Madness -- 1. Setting the Scene, Part 1: Confessions of a Frustrated Missionary -- "South" -- Phase 1: From Death to Chaos -- Phase 2: Becoming a Church-Planting Church -- Phase 3: From a Church to an Organic Movement -- 2. Setting the Scene, Part 2: Denominational and Translocal Perspectives -- A View from the Chopper -- Christendom-schmissendom -- A Missionary's Take -- We've Always Done It This Way . . . er . . . Haven't We? -- "It's Church, Jim, but Not as We Know It" -- Who Put the M in the EMC? -- Section Two: A Journey to the Heart of Apostolic Genius -- Introduction -- 3. The Heart of It All: Jesus Is Lord -- Distilling the Message -- Hear, O Israel -- Jesus Is Lord -- How Far Is Too Far? -- 4. Disciple Making -- "Little Jesus" in Disneyland -- The Conspiracy of "Little Jesus" -- Embodiment and Transmission -- Inspirational Leadership -- Leadership as an Extension of Discipleship -- Hitting the Road with Jesus -- 5. Missional-Incarnational Impulse -- Theological Roots -- Missional-Incarnational -- Missional Ecclesiology or . . . Putting First Things First -- 6. Apostolic Environment -- If You Want Missional Church, Then . . . -- An Apostolic Job Description -- Field of Dreams -- Creating Webs of Meaning -- A Stroke of (Apostolic) Genius -- The Final Word -- 7. Organic Systems -- Get a Life: The Church as a Living System -- The Problem of Institutions -- A Movement Ethos -- Networked Structures -- Viruslike Growth -- Let's Talk about Sex -- Finally -- 8. Communitas, Not Community -- "The Community for me"? or "Me for the Community"? -- Liminality and Communitas -- The Bible and Communitas -- It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere! -- The Mythos of Communitas -- Artificial Environments and the Church -- The Future and the Shaping of Things to Come -- Mission as Organizing Principle -- Beyond the Either-Or Church -- So, Follow the Yellow Brick Road -- Conclusion -- Addendum and Glossary -- A Crash Course in Chaos -- We Just Got a New Set of Spectacles -- Changing the Story -- Survival Is Not Enough -- How, Then, Shall We Live? -- Come Forth! A Case Study in Emergent Structures -- Glossary of Key Terms.