ABSTRACT
Dan Kimball whose approach might be called organically missional, shares with the evangelistic worship authors a preoccupation with the church's outreach to the unchurched but, for him, that imperative is more a matter of being than doing. In Kimball's understanding, deeply shaped by a deliberate engagement with postmodernism, worship is an organic expression of the church's missional character. Many other commentators have considered the implications of the 'postmodern turn' for Christian ministry, and numerous practitioners have theologized about, embraced, and experimented with postmodern-minded ministry models. Kimball falls near the middle of the range of responses the church has made to postmodernism; he neither overturns traditionally evangelical theology nor makes merely token, surface-level adjustments. Furthermore, The Emerging Church presents a good introductory overview not only of Kimball's own ministry journey, but also of the general landscape of 'emerging' postmodern ministry. Reformulating the relationship between worship and evangelism, Kimball uncouples the two without losing sight of their inherent interrelatedness.
