On the 28th of February 2001, Buck and Luciene moved to the Amazon Basin of Brazil. We lived in Macapá, right on the equator. Why would a web designer give up his career and take his family from their comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, USA, to live on the Amazon River? We came with a vision to save the Amazon, to tell people about Jesus, and plant a Vineyard church. We have planted a church, and we are turning it over to the national leaders, heading back to the States in Sept. 2009.

 
I just finished “The Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch. What can I say? It has been like a watershed moment in my life. Like all of these things that I have felt for so long have finally been articulated. Many of the things that have been screaming within me have been given a voice.

As a church planting missionary, I have been stumbling my way through these concepts, experiencing hardship and making mistakes, seemingly just to prepare me to be receptive to these radical, yet completely historical and world changing ideas that have been in our very DNA as believers.

The whole idea of the church returning to our roots, to mission, and forgoing institutionalism, power plays, and hierarchal control. Releasing God’s people to be the incarnate missionaries that they were created to be, and doing it in ways that would drive many Christians mad but that will release Apostolic Genius and multiply growth potential- what is not to like about that? Concepts like these will change the world!

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Wednesday, December 05, 2007