Surfanthood: Learning to Serve by Learning to Surf

by Mark Read

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2021

Overview

Surfanthood explores a simple analogy expanding the experiences of early ministry. The analogy goes like this: The waves are God’s activity in the world. The surfer is us. The board is our activity/ministry/service. At best our activities, and boards, join with God’s activity, the waves, to create something joyful, wondrous, and exciting. We submit to the wave and experience something beautiful. At worst we can wrestle and struggle, becoming increasingly tired, frustrated, and pained by what is happening until eventually the inevitable occurs; we get really hurt or we get out. A new possibility centers on five postures that servants adopt: They are non-professional, non-commercial, non-prescriptive, non-evangelical, and non-authoritative. Each chapter begins with a reality of surfing that finds a parallel in ministry. This reality gives a lens to explore an episode within Luke’s Gospel which, as a complete Gospel, explores the question “How do I mature in service?” and then reflects on where we see the postures of surfanthood.

Praise for Surfanthood

“Mark has written a wonderful book which is food for the soul. I may not agree with everything that is in here, but Mark has raised helpful questions which I will be pondering for some time. Driven by a simple but powerful analogy, it is above all a book about the necessity of staying close to Jesus. Grab your board and dive in.”

—Will Foulger, Director of Mission and Evangelism, Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, Durham

Product Details

• Title: Surfanthood: Learning to Serve by Learning to Surf
• Author: Mark Read
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666715859, 9781666715835, 9781666715842, 1666715859, 1666715832, 1666715840
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666715859
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T06:39:45Z

About the Author

Mark Read is a church leader in southwest England.