Joining God in the Great Unraveling

How do we discern what God is doing ahead of us in our neighborhoods and communities and join with God there?

It calls us into the risky space of discerning where God is at work rather than depending on our own assessments of needs, which conveniently leave us in control of agendas and

the actions summarized in chapter two tell us about the underlying narratives or paradigms that have informed responses to

This God acts to reshape the world, with and among totally ordinary people who have been deemed of no value. Moses’—and the churches’—vocation is to participate in this primary drama of God’s acting.

What would be involved in a missionary encounter between the gospel and this whole way of perceiving, thinking, and living we call “modern Western culture