Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

By: Mark Driscoll

Narrated by: Art Carlson

This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle’s innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America’s fastest growing churches located in one of America’s toughest mission fields. It’s also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he’s made along the way, and God’s grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll’s emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he’s not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches. Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church’s ministry, no matter its present size. The book includes discussion questions and appendix resources. “After reading a book like this, you can never go back to being an inwardly focused church without a mission. Even if you disagree with Mark about some of the things he says, you cannot help but be convicted to the inner core about what it means to have a heart for those who don’t know Jesus.”—Dan Kimball, author,The Emerging Church “… will make you laugh, cry, and get mad … school you, shape you, and mold you into the right kind of priorities to lead the church in today’s messy world.”—Robert Webber, Northern Seminary

Hillarious and enlightening

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I laughed so much while reading this. Driscoll is super bold and very funny. If you are in church leadership I highly recommend.

A great look into the life of a pastor!

The book is a great look into the tremendous joy and agonizing pain that goes along with being a pastor from the humble beginnings to mega church status. There are lots of excellent leadership lessons and an inside look into why the great majority of churches never grow, and why so many eventually die (and probably should die).