Leaders are readers. In light of that, I want to share a few insights from a book I’ve found very timely for the work we do with churches in transition.

The book is called, Metanoia: How God Radically Transforms People, Churches, and Organizations from the Inside Out and is written by Alan Hirsch with Rob Kelly. 

This is not a complete summary of the book but rather a few of my initial take aways as I make my way through it. The reason I’m reading the book is because I had the privilege of hearing Alan Hirsch speak about this idea at a workshop I attended while at Exponential (a global church multiplication conference in Orlando, Florida in March). 

My hope is that these ideas will whet your appetite to possibly pick up the book or at the very least, consider the implications of the ideas I’m wrestling with myself. 

Five Ideas from the School of Alan Hirsch*

 1. We must properly define metanoia  

 The Greek term metanoia—traditionally and inadequately translated as “repentance”—m...