Off-Road Discplines overview

If you want to reach the culture around you, you’re going to have follow Jesus “off-road”!

That’s the call issued by pastor, consultant, and educator Earl Creps.

To reach today’s culture, he says, we need missional leaders: men and women whose passion and vision for the world makes them people others want to emulate.

Prayer and Bible reading – what Earl calls “on-road practices”—are vital, of course. But it’s in the “off-road” disciplines that Creps says a missional heart is formed:

” … missional leadership derives not from methodologies or strategies, but from the work of the Holy Spirit to rearrange one’s interior life,” says Creps.

The unexpected “off-road” spiritual encounters, complete with the off-roader’s bumps and bruises, make room for Jesus to take the central position. Only then will the Holy Spirit reshape you as a leader worth following.

In this book, you’ll learn about “paradigm crashes” – disconnects between the American church and the culture it is commanded to reach. You’ll explore the three paradigm crashes that impelled Earl on his own rocky but exhilarating path to discovering twelve off-road disciplines, six personal (e.g., reverse mentoring), and six organizational (e.g., passing the baton).

Learn how disciplines like these can open you up to the unconventional, powerful ways God wants to shape you to lead others in mission.