Steve Taylor pointed out a blog post by Andrew Jones about "emerging church books". Andrew shows his bookshelf of 50 emerging church books and then rates the top ten. He then goes on to wonder aloud if books are the best place to capture the emerging church story (I would say they are probably not, but none the less). There are some great comments at both sites, you should check them out.

From 2001 - 2004 while working hard to plant the church I read somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50 books per year (excluding the Bible). In 2005-2006 I have read only four books. I am disinterested for the most part, and lack the time to read more right now.

Anyway, here's me using the internet (blog) to interact with this topic. Here's my top eight (just to be difficult) list of books and blogs on the emerging church:

BOOKS

1. The Out Of Bounds Church? By Steve Taylor
2. Liquid Church by Pete Ward
3. The Complex Christ by Kester Brewin
4. The Great Giveaway by David Fitch
5. Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs & Ryan Bolger
6. The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber
   
7. The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball
8. The Shaping Of Things To Come By Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch

BLOGS

1. Jordon Cooper
   
2. Jonny Baker
   
3. Steve Taylor
   
4. Mark Berry
5. Moot
   
6. Maggi Dawn
7. Len Hjalmarson
8. Kester Brewin

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