|  Booklist: Missional Church

Exiles:  Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

by Michael Frost

Frost argues that Christians are exiles who need to "rediscover our God on foreign soil where our 'temples' and our 'city walls' no longer offer the comfort they once did."  Hendrickson Publishers, 2006.

Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness

by Lois Y. Barrett
This book is a case study of nine missional congregations in North America in order to extrapolate the missional "patterns" that belong to the character of these churches.  Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004.

Planting Missional Churches
by Ed Stetzer

Stetzer, as a theoretician and practitioner, provides a helpful resource for those interested in re-developing a missional mind-set for the churches in North America.  Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2006.

The Missional Leader:  Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World

by Alan J. Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk

Roxburgh and Romanuk see the missional church as an incarnational community that lives out God's plans for the whole of creation.  Jossey-Bass, 2006

Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in the Theology of Mission

by David J. Bosch

Bosch explores six historic mission paradigms and concludes that our current understanding and practice of Christian mission needs to be idfferent from any experienced in Christian history.  Orbis Books, 1991.

Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
by Darrell L. Guder
The basis thesis of this book is that the crisis of the North American church is not methodological, but missiological and spiritual.  Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998.

Shaped by God's Heart: The Passion and Practices of a Missional Church by Milfred Minatrea
This book's thesis is that it's not the church's activity level that defines success but whether its activities accomplish God's mission for HIs church.  This book helps church leaders move beyond mere survival toward a thriving missional mode for their congregations.  Jossey-Bass, 2004.

The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

by Leslie Newbigin

Newbigin sees the church's mission as proclaiming the kingdom of the Father, sharing the life of the Son and bearing the witness of the Spirit.  These activities manifest Faith, Love and Hope in the world.  Grand Rapids, Eerdmans Publishing, 1978, 1995.

Decoding the Church: Mapping the DNA of Christ's Body
by Howard A. Snyder
Snyder explores the church in genetic and organic terms in order to help the reader think about its missionary nature.  Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2002.

The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit
by Craig Van Gelder
Rather than beginning with successful contemporary models of what churches are doing, The Essence of the Church encourages readers to first rethink the nature of the church.  Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000.