GlocalNet

I’ve read a lot of books this year. The Black Swan by Taleb on how history jumps was really good. Wikinomics by Don Tapscott is continuing to dramatically impact my thinking unlike any other business or sociology book since Friedman’s The World is Flat. But, of all the “religious” books I’ve read (and written) if I could get someone to read one book, it would be Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road by Paul-Gordon Chandler. It’s the equivalent of Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones. It’s a real page-turner and full of “missional” living. It will be next to impossible to put down when you start it—I warn you. With all the writing on “missional” and what it looks like, I’ve been saying our next great leaders are coming from the East and we need to be ready to learn from them. Mazhar Mallouhi is one of those leaders. He just doesn’t teach theory. It is the story of his life. I’m convinced more and more missional living isn’t theory and theology as much as it is biography. And, wow, is this biography! Paul-Gordon Chandler is an excellent writer who does us all a great service by exposing us to Mazhar. Church planters, it will teach you contextualization. Western Christians, it will help you understand Muslims. Middle-Eastern Muslims, it will help you understand Christians. Everybody, it will inspire you to live as followers of Jesus.