Dangerous Prayer offers a strategy for fostering prayer and spirituality in mission that focuses on neighbourhood transformation and global needs using the Lord's Prayer as a radical blueprint. Sustainability in mission is not possible without prayer; vibrancy in prayer is not possible without mission. Christians on mission need a vibrant life of prayer in order to be effective yet to have a vibrant prayer life they need an outlet in mission. The Lord's Prayer offers a radical inspirational framework to help move Christians beyond praying just for themselves and to have their imaginations captured by the mission of God and concern for global needs. Jesus' words guide us to pray for God's Kingdom on earth, for restoration, for food for all who are hungry, for people to experience forgiveness and all that really is good news about Jesus. It is a dangerous prayer because of its counter-cultural and radical stance, and because it invites us to be, in part, the answer to our prayers. This book offers inspiring and practical approaches for unleashing the whole people of God for missional prayer and prayerful mission.

With slums on the rise, where would Jesus be found today if not alongside activists standing in the gap for the most marginalized and vulnerable people on the planet? With a foreword by Tony Campolo, Seeking Urban Shalom offers the best of the 2012 International Society of Urban Mission (ISUM) Summit exploring neighborhood development, advocacy, trafficking, church planting, dialogue and leadership development. The authors are grassroots practitioners who will open your eyes and expand your mind about relevant biblical, strategic, demographic, humanitarian and global justice issues for integral urban mission in our increasingly urbanized world.

This is a ground-breaking piece of research which holds the reality of three Australian 'emerging missional churches' up against their rhetoric and draws important conclusions. Don't we all aspire to incarnational mission, empowering leadership and inclusive community? Cronshaw learns from the local. He demonstrates through careful congregational analysis that it is easier to aspire to these things than to achieve them. Everyone committed to bridging the huge gap between church as we know it and a Western society that is 'over church' will learn a great deal from The Shaping of Things Now. (Dr Ross Langmead, Dean and Professor of Missiology, Whitley College) ... Darren has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of the emerging missional church in Australasia and given us a wonderful gift of painstaking research blended with loving insight into the nature of this historically significant new movement. I am both honored by him as well as indebted to him for this work - and I think we should all be. (Alan Hirsch, co-author of The Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) and founder of Forge Mission Training Network)