Metanoia

In Metanoia, Alan Hirsch and Rob Kelly recognize the church has reached a turning point. Social unrest, political discord, a life-altering pandemic-all of these are forcing leaders to consider how they move forward in a changed world. Hirsch and Kelly offer insightful answers to important missiological questions: What if, instead of following old models, we turned to God for new ideas? What if, instead of holding onto the past, we sought God's future? Metanoia brilliantly explains how repentance realigns our hearts with God's and creates a shift that prepares his people to reach the world in brand-new ways.

DAVE FERGUSON, lead visionary, NewThing; author, BLESS

The church needs a course correction! Far beyond the guilt and shame frameworks of repentance we have previously held to, this book beckons us to consider metanoia as the radical paradigm shift we need in order to see with fresh eyes the beauty awaiting us in Christ. Compelling, hopeful, and unflinching, Metanoia is a masterful book that every Christian leader should read.

LISA RODRIQUEZ-WATSON, national director, Missio Alliance; contributing author, Voices of Lament and Red Skies

Every once in a while, I find myself reading a book that I have to close. It's too much, too good. My imagination is captivated, the vision of God is beyond belief, and I need to breathe. It's so overwhelmingly true and hopeful, that it shifts the foundation of my soul. With the WHY linked with the HOW, Alan and Rob plumb the depths of Jesus and emerge with a way forward for all of us, individually and collectively-a force, perhaps like the one that caused the disciples to drop everything and follow.

NANCY ORTBERG, CEO, Transforming the Bay with Christ; author, Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands

In a world awash with peripherals, the message of Metanoia is truly and refreshingly radical-striking right at the very radix, the root, of the ways in which we are to think, live, and lead as followers of Jesus Christ. I particularly welcome the blend of provocative thought and pragmatic empowerment, typical as it is of Alan Hirsch's life as both a prophetic intellect and catalytic leader.

PETE GREIG, 24-7 Prayer International and Emmaus Rd, UK

There are very few writers who can take a concept that you have known for a long time and help you rediscover it in a way that helps you see everything anew. Alan Hirsch seems to do this with every book. In Metanoia, he and his coauthor, Rob Kelly, reframe a biblical idea that for many has become burdensome and guilt-inducing into a pathway for new energy, creativity, and deep transformation. You'll w