Journeys - Couverture rigide

Wray, Marvin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1452099723 ISBN 13 : 9781452099729

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

"Journeys" is a duet of sorts. The author will take you alternately on a nearly 12,000-mile motorcycle ride around the U. S. as well as an inside look at his own personal spiritual journey through six-plus decades of experiencing God.

It began as a sabbatical project through his church in an attempt to find out what is happening in Seventh-day Adventist Churches across America. Why are some growing and most not? What is the degree of optimism among the pastors and the laity? How willing are we to embrace change in a church that looks strongly to its roots?

As he began to put a plan in place Marvin quickly saw an opportunity to fulfill a life long dream of riding his motorcycle all around the country while digging out his research data. This adventure was a full year in planning, two months in carrying out, and another year in getting it into book form.

Marvin believes that the information he found, while connecting with only one church that was not Seventh-day Adventist, is applicable to all churches in general. There may be some aspects that are unique to Adventists, but for the most part, people are people and issues of control, resistance to change, and the need to connect with today's young families are more general in nature.

As he had ample time to reflect while riding countless hours alone he felt called to share his own personal spiritual journey and how that developed and changed through sixty-four years of life and thirty-seven years of ministry.

This book doesn't have all the answers, but if you are in any way involved in a church it will raise some issues worth your consideration.

May God bless you as you experience the "Journeys."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

''Journeys'' is a duet of sorts. The author will take you alternately on a nearly 12,000-mile motorcycle ride around the U. S. as well as an inside look at his own personal spiritual journey through six-plus decades of experiencing God.

It began as a sabbatical project through his church in an attempt to find out what is happening in Seventh-day Adventist Churches across America. Why are some growing and most not? What is the degree of optimism among the pastors and the laity? How willing are we to embrace change in a church that looks strongly to its roots?

As he began to put a plan in place Marvin quickly saw an opportunity to fulfill a life long dream of riding his motorcycle all around the country while digging out his research data. This adventure was a full year in planning, two months in carrying out, and another year in getting it into book form.

Marvin believes that the information he found, while connecting with only one church that was not Seventh-day Adventist, is applicable to all churches in general. There may be some aspects that are unique to Adventists, but for the most part, people are people and issues of control, resistance to change, and the need to connect with today's young families are more general in nature.

As he had ample time to reflect while riding countless hours alone he felt called to share his own personal spiritual journey and how that developed and changed through sixty-four years of life and thirty-seven years of ministry.

This book doesn't have all the answers, but if you are in any way involved in a church it will raise some issues worth your consideration.

May God bless you as you experience the ''Journeys.''

Biographie de l'auteur

For the past eleven years Marvin Wray has been the Lead Pastor at the Napa Community SDA Church in Napa, California. Previously he has served churches in several other locations, including six years in Hong Kong and five years as the Ministerial Director for the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and southern Maryland.

He has previously co-authored two other books with Len McMillian. In 1994 they wrote, ''First-Class Male'' and in 1996 they followed with, ''Putting Up With Mr. Right.'' Marvin has been a frequent speaker for men's retreats, pastor's retreats, couple's retreats, campmeetings, and other convocations both in the U.S. as well as Asia and Europe.

He has been married to his wife, Ingrid, for almost forty years and they have three married children and five perfect grandchildren. Both Marvin and Ingrid love to travel, walk, browse through small out of the way towns and just be together. They have a perfect marriage in that Ingrid loves to golf and ride the motorcycle and Marvin loves to go shopping with her.

His real passion in ministry is to share the absolute assurance of God's gift of salvation and to make that as simple as possible. Building real relationships with other people and with Jesus Christ is the fundamental structure of a Christian journey and that journey will never end throughout all of eternity.

Fun loving, humorous, dedicated, and just a little off the wall are words and expressions that are often used to describe this author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1452099723
• ISBN 13: 9781452099729
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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