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The books below are all good, and are only categorized in a suggested progression.

For Seekers:
  1. Making Room for Life: Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships by Randy Frazee
  2. New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
  3. Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess by Will Samson
  4. Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile by Rob Bell and Don Golden
  5. The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows by James Bryan Smith
  6. The Jesus Way: A Conversation On the Ways that Jesus is the Way by Eugene Peterson
  7. Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson
For Hearers:
  1. Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas
  2. The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus' Essential Teachings on Discipleship by Dallas Willard
  3. The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
  4. Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton
  5. Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative by Robert E. Webber
  6. Foundations of Spiritual Formation: A Community Approach to Becoming Like Christ by Paul Pettit
  7. The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting On the Character of Christ by James Bryan Smith
For Kneelers:
  1. Apprenticeship with Jesus: Learning to Live Like the Master by Gary W. Moon
  2. Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith by Robert E. Webber
  3. The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
  4. Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship by Jack Frost
  5. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene Peterson
  6. The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love by James Bryan Smith
  7. Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith by Spangler and Tverberg
For the Faithful:
  1. Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World by Robert E. Webber
  2. The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation by Thrall, Willard, et al
  3. The Community of the King by Howard A. Snyder
  4. Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God by J.I. Packer
  5. The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life by Gary Thomas
  6. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt
  7. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation by James K.A. Smith