In a popular and sensitive style, Vincent Donovan paints a portrait of the radically new, turbulent church of the future. Arguing that the present changes in the church are as important as those that occurred during the early church's transition from Judaic to Hellenistic Christianity, Donovan highlights what earlier transitions have to say about today's church. What does the coming of the Third Church mean for our understanding of the sacraments? Of mission? Of ecclesial structures? Of faith and action at all levels of the church? Donovan seeks answers. And as he does, he offers a vision of a church now in the midst of creation, a church being born and built from the grass roots. This book is must reading for all those who believe, as Donovan does, that it is time for the church to be evangelized by the world.