Faith of Leap, The by Michael Frost
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read Faith of Leap as part of the first class in the Academy for Missional Wisdom, and I resonated with much of it, knowing exactly what Frost & Hirsch mean in their critique of “churchy spirituality”. They emphasize the contrast between the churches of Christendom who wait and expect people to come to them, with missional communities who understand that discipleship is being sent out.
They lost me when they spent so many pages on material from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey which has been rightly critiqued as dismissive of women’s perspectives and journeys. Frost & Hirsch emphasize adventure stories as examples of the kind of communities built around a shared mission, neglecting stories of community that resonate with women.
The process of entering into a community and learning about it in order to appropriately be in ministry with and for that community is helpful, and I’m interested enough in their reflections on Jesus as the new temple, i.e. the new center of life, to read their book ReJesus.
I think the concepts that Frost & Hirsch raise are important ones, but I was left in the end wondering if there wasn’t a better book on the subject.
