Book Review — “Disruption” by Mark Deymaz

“Disruption” by Mark Deymaz was a book written for me. The summary on the back of the book states is all “We must become disruptive.” The author is talking about how we think about church. Amen.

Here’s a definition of what a disruptor is — “In an opinion piece for CNN, Mel Robbins, an expert on human behavior and motivation, wrote about people and organizations known in the business sector as disruptors. ‘The disruptor,’ she wrote, ‘is someone [or collectively an organization] whose entire ‘brand’ is…to turn the way we do things on its head….and then hand us the new rules for how things work.’” (pg. xxviii)

This is about effecting systemic change, and thinking differently. This is a time in which both of these things are essential in our world and for the church. Not because we need to change for the sake of change. Or because change is just something that happens. Rather this is a time of transformation and societal and cultural shifts in ways that require us to think differently. This is a time of systemic change in a multitude of ways, including the church. This is will either be the time of opportunity in which the church made the appropriate changes it needed to, or it will be a time of missed opportunity in which it didn’t for any number of reasons.

“Stated another way, disruptors can both see and sense what lies ahead, around the corner, long before others have even arrived at the intersection of present and future. Because they are out front and ahead of the curve, disruptors…