The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time

An authority on global trends and Christian response, Sine addresses post-9/11 believers who appear overwhelmed by our turbulent times. Sharing stories of churches and ministries who are planting hope in troubled soils, he calls for a return to those God-prompted little acts of faith and compassion that prepare the world for Christ's return. Insightful! 192 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.

Organized as a series of conversations, this book explores the "lively edge" of Christianity in the U.S. and the U.K. Sine, who wrote The Mustard Seed Conspiracy in the early 1980s, has always championed Christian subversives and exiles who act in small but significant ways to care for the poor and marginalized. This book begins by delineating four streams of Christian expression that greatly challenge the norms and assumptions of traditional churches. These streams—emerging, missional, mosaic, and monastic—frequently flow into each other, and Sine does a fine job of defining them as separate but interdependent entities. Sine looks to these streams for tentative answers to several difficult questions, such as "Did we get what it means to be a disciple wrong?" and "Did we get what it means to be the church wrong?" As he explores these questions, Sine considers the context, particularly what he calls "the global mall" in which the church must define and distinguish itself. Sine is unflinching in his assessment of Christian consumerism, but his tone is never angry. Rather, he exudes childlike enthusiasm as he shares example after example of Christians all over the world who are expressing their faith through profoundly countercultural acts of mercy, justice, love and compassion. (Mar.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

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Reviewed by E. Hagos (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), December 16, 2008

I am afraid that you can't prepare for the second coming of Christ without knowing Him firsthand and personally as prescribed in the first. The "mustard seed" in the parable is just this: knowing Jesus Christ. We have been in a culture of "believing" in Him for too long without at all knowing Him!

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