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"Seeking Church" by Duerksen and Dyrness. A Review

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Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom Darren T. Duerksen and William A. Dyrness IVP Academic www.ivp.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-5105-8; 1 October 2019; $32.00 Sometimes it’s good to be challenged and questioned. On the one hand, it uncomfortably pushes us back through the glass walls of our assumptions and presuppositions down to the place where we started building, to see if the structure really is secure. At the same time, being contested and probed can strengthen and straighten our assurances. For me that was the primary value of “Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom,” a new 224-page softback composed by Darren T. Duerksen, a one-time Mennonite Brethren missionary to India and associate professor and program director of intercultural and religious studies at Fresno Pacific University, and William A. Dyrness, previously a Presbyterian Church (USA) missionary to the Philippines and now professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. Though the