When Church Stops Working: Meeting With God in Your Living Room - Couverture souple

Wentz, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1733128565 ISBN 13 : 9781733128568

Editeur : Doing Christianity, 2022

Synopsis

If church has stopped working for you, but your spirit knows something is missing, God may be calling you to try something new.

Jesus promised, “Where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.” With a few friends and a little faith, anyone can claim that promise and experience the love and power that turned the world upside down.

David Wentz trains pastors around the world to equip God’s people to be the church and have church any time, any place, with anybody. In this #1 bestseller, he walks you through meeting with God in your own living room with positive practical advice suited to every religious background or none.

It’s how Christians gathered in the New Testament and the American frontier, and it’s a growing movement around the world today.

(Note to pastors: this book is a proven way to extend your reach by mentoring living-room church leaders or developing living-room church networks.)

You don’t need a seminary degree. You don’t need a special building. All you need is a few friends and a little faith.

“What a refreshing read! Balanced in viewpoint and refraining from church-bashing, I found this book to be a practical guide and a breath of fresh air! A quality book that will make waves as we enter a time of church reformation in the coming years.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thirty-eight years as a pastor honed David's passion for helping people connect with God and make a difference. Add a varied church background, a first career in engineering, and graduate degrees from three seminaries (mainstream, Wesleyan-evangelical, and charismatic), and you can see why he expresses God's truth in ways everyone can appreciate. Raised in the Episcopal church, David has also been part of Nazarene, Pentecostal Holiness, and non-denominational congregations. As a United Methodist pastor he has served small, large, and multi-cultural churches in rural, small town, suburban and urban settings. He served as a regional church consultant in the Maryland - D.C. area, and led workshops for pastors in Turkey. In 2019 David founded Doing Christianity, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to equipping pastors in developing and minority-Christian countries. Thousands of copies of his pastoral training book, Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts, have been printed and distributed free of charge in English, Swahili, Urdu, Chichewa, and French. David married his college sweetheart, Paula, in 1974. Their five children are actively serving God in the US and around the world. Dr. Wentz earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia; two Masters of Divinity, from Melodyland School of Theology and Wesley Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary. He enjoys the outdoors, reading, and playing music. His heroes are John Wesley, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (And for you old baseball fans, Brooks Robinson.)The book of Ezekiel describes David's calling. Twenty-five hundred years ago God called Ezekiel to teach God's ways. He instructed him to proclaim the Holy Spirit - the one who revives dry bones and forms them into a dwelling for God and a source of living water that heals nations.Bones are still dry.God still wants to dwell among his people.Nations still need healing.And people still need to be taught God's ways and be moved by God's Spirit.That's why we still need to be "Doing Christianity."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doing Christianity
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1733128565
• ISBN 13: 9781733128568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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