Quantum Mission The Book

Something Completely Different for a Kaleidoscope World

‘The significant problems we face can’t be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

                                                   Albert Einstein

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This book is the result of the author’s long in the making Melancholy Conclusion that, given the well documented decline of the Christian Church in Australia (and the West in general) this statement is true-

Unpalatable though it may be, and much as many seem to wish to ignore or deny it, the current local church paradigm in the West has not been for several decades, is not, nor can be made to be capable of achieving urgently needed trend-reversing missional goals.

This is because the Australian, indeed Western, Church is suffering from a decades-long missional malaise of failed mission to 21st century society. The result is an existential crisis, one that the institutional Church, with praiseworthy but rare exceptions, is generally unwilling and/or unable to address.

Quantum Mission Part One, offers a diagnosis of the ‘Why’; that is why the longstanding missional malaise persists and the major reasons for it. In particular, these include:

First, a ‘keeping on doing what we have always been doing’ in terms of the Sunday-Centric church model; Second, a lack of cultural intelligence; Third, a dearth of appropriate leadership; and Fourth, a persistence with failed missional strategies.

Quantum Mission makes the case for the urgent need for the development of a completely new (new in the West anyway) way of doing mission to what is now a neo-pagan society; indeed, for a Paradigm Shift in the way the Church engages in mission to 21^st century society.

Part Two looks at the ‘What’: What such a Paradigm Shift might look like. Arguing that the design of that new way requires a much deeper understanding of the ever-changing Kaleidoscope of cultural futures flowing towards us, in which the only certainty is uncertainty.

Part Three deals with the ‘How’: That is, it is essentially practical, providing some experienced-based guidelines as to how missional communities and networks might be established. Added to this is a basic Toolbox of skills and strategies that might be of use to the practitioner seeking to establish Missional Community Networks.  

A fundamental aspect of the thesis of Quantum Mission, at what is a ‘Hinge Point’ is history, is the urgent need for a significant break, in fact a quantum leap, from the current Sunday-Centric, long-term unaffordable, ‘four-walls-and-a-minister’, institutional church platform and its associated, long-failing missional strategies, to ‘Something Completely Different’. That is the embedding of networks of designer missional communities (in all forms, shapes, sizes and styles), packets of ‘Kingdom yeast’ in the ‘Neo-pagan dough’ of 21st century society.

Quantum Mission is now available in hardback, paperback, and e-book formats, through most major book outlets, both shop front and on-line. e.g., Amazon (Australia, UK and USA – prices vary), Walmart, Waterstones, Barnes and Noble, Booktopia, Book Depository and many others.

Missional Community Establishment and Development

Introductory, Training and Equipping Seminars

These can be arranged, at locations to suit, for those who are already involved in, or interested in developing, Missional Communities and Networks.

Please contact either-

0410492546 or-

unboundedchurch@gmail.com

Something Completely Different – A Response to the Crisis

The general subject of this booklet is the Missional Malaise that now infects the whole Australian church landscape.  It seeks to  analyse  the reasons for the now chronic and widespread church decline and  lack of missional fruitfulness. On the basis of that analysis, it seeks to provide a response to the challenges faced, that response being the Unbounded Church concept of the creation of Missional Community Networks, either independent of or in parallel to existing churches.

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Gleanings From Those Already on the Road

The purpose of this paper is to inform and stimulate current discussions on improving our missional fruitfulness. It draws on the experiences and thinking of those who have already travelled some of the journey, and in part may help us avoid reinventing the wheel, or worse the ‘Square Wheel’.

It is intended to provide an initial selection of research grounded key findings, comments and observations which are of particular relevance to consideration of the development of Missional Communities in Australia. It particularly draws on the very comprehensive and wide-ranging research carried out by the 2013 ‘Church Army Research Unit’ in the United Kingdom in a twenty-year longitudinal study of ‘Fresh Expressions of Church’ (FxC) established in ten Anglican Dioceses.

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