Sign up for the “AND” blog tour!

by Andrew Rogers

Pastors and church visionaries, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay, aren’t just interested in churches that gather people, they want to see churches that scatter people too. In their new book, AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church, they discuss how church leaders can move beyond the attractional-missional divide and utilize insights from both perspectives. They bring together the very best of the attractional and missional models for church ministry into one solid model. 

Here’s what a few others have to say about AND:

“Hugh and Matt get it. The issue in the American church is not the form or the technology. It’s about what each leader is gifted with and given to become in their context. Forms are dictated by multiple streams of input and relational intersection. May there be a new diaspora of AND churches.” — Dave Gibbons, pastor of NewSong, author of The Monkey and the Fish

“In this pioneering book, Hugh and Matt extend their vision for incarnational community by offering a model of integration for established churches. Because both of them are long-term innovators, trainers, and practitioners of incarnational mission, this book has real significance and effectively advances our thinking on the critical edge. Well done, guys.” — Alan Hirsch, director of Future Travelers, author of The Forgotten Ways

The AND blog tour will be July 12-16, sign up here to participate.

[This blog tour is full! Sorry! Check back for more blog tours. We'll be running at least one a month through 2010.]

Each person who’s blog is approved will received a FREE copy of the book in return for a review posted on Amazon and on their blog. That’s it!

Thanks!

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26 Responses to “Sign up for the “AND” blog tour!”

  1. Would love to blog tour for this book!

  2. I’m looking forward to reading and reviewing this book. Thanks.

    • Excellent! Thanks for stopping by.
      Have you done some reading on Missional church planting already? Or have you read Hugh and Matt before?

      • I have not read anything by Hugh or Matt before, but I have done some reading on Missional church planting. I have also been involved in church planting and redeveloping churches. I am looking forward to learning from both authors.

  3. loved the last book I read by Halter and Smay, looking forward to this one too!

  4. I would love to join this blog tour. Where do I join?

    • Hi Chris! Just click the link inside the post that says “sign up here to participate.” It will take you to an online entry form. It should only take you about 2 minutes to fill it out. Thanks for your interest!

  5. Thanks Andrew. I’ve heard good things about AND. Count me in. I’m signed up.

  6. I’ve signed up for this one. Love the Zondervan church titles!

  7. I am grinning about what Gibbons had to say: “It’s about what each leader is gifted with and given to become in their context.” I look forward to reading what Halter and Smay have said. It seems like the focus is taken away from dreaming of what ‘could be’ and placed on recognizing how we’re called to lead in the ‘here and now.’ Would love to be a part.

  8. I love AND! My review is now posted and will be visible on the 12th. I am encouraged to finally be able to wholeheartedly endorse a book on missional church planting.

  9. I just reviewed AND and posted my review on my blog at http://gregawilson.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/book-review-and-by-hugh-halter-and-matt-smay/ and also on Amazon. Thanks for including me on the blog tour!

  10. Thanks for the review copy! What a thought-provoking book (sometimes in good ways, sometimes in frustration!) Reviews are up at http://stepuptothecall.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-and-blog-tour.html and at Amazon too.

  11. I just recieved my copy of AND today; I will read it and review ASAP :)

    • Thanks for this review, Andrew. I appreciate your thoughts at the end:

      “Perhaps living in living out church in this way I will find that I don’t really need to read more at all. Instead, maybe the more I long for is the appropriate more that I need to find in the gathered and scattered church. We will see.”

      I wonder similar things sometimes.

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