What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church?: A Visual Guide to Becoming the Community Jesus Intended

What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church?: A Visual Guide to Becoming the Community Jesus Intended

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  • Create Date:2022-07-30 13:21:53
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Skye Jethani
  • ISBN:0802424279
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Summary

Researchers have uncovered the following three trends: First, distrust of institutions, including the church, is at an all-time high。 Second, young people raised in the church are leaving at alarming rates and not returning。 Third, loneliness and social isolation are at pandemic levels。 What’s the connection? It appears that an entire generation is starving for the very thing the church is called to provide but has chosen to look for it elsewhere。 Why is this happening? Following the model set by What If Jesus Was Serious?—short readings and engaging illustrations—What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church? looks at what the Bible really says about the church, its purpose, and the impact of its modern captivity to consumer values。 Rather than an event, a building, or an institution, the New Testament calls the church to be a community living in communion with God and one another for the sake of the world。

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Reviews

Brad Dell

I loved Skye’s other two books。 Like the prayer book, though, this one was a few notches below the Sermon on the Mount book — perhaps because the latter two books don’t have as much influence from Dallas Willard。 (One of my favorite parts of the first book are the illustrations of Willard’s complex points。)Many entries were powerful while others felt stretched to fit the theme (church)。 Nothing I disagree with, but just lacking originality or conviction。 That said, most of the book is exactly wh I loved Skye’s other two books。 Like the prayer book, though, this one was a few notches below the Sermon on the Mount book — perhaps because the latter two books don’t have as much influence from Dallas Willard。 (One of my favorite parts of the first book are the illustrations of Willard’s complex points。)Many entries were powerful while others felt stretched to fit the theme (church)。 Nothing I disagree with, but just lacking originality or conviction。 That said, most of the book is exactly what the American church must reflect on。 We’ve become far too corporate, consumeristic, and profit-driven。 Skye scripturally and prayerfully undermines these diseases and illuminates an ancient way forward。 。。。more