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Church Worth Getting Up For

  • By Charles E. Gutenson
  • By Charles E. Gutenson
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They are playing soccer, paying bills, shopping, visiting museums, meeting friends for breakfast. People in your community have a lot of reasons to get up on Sunday morning. But they’re not getting up for church.

If you have the courage to join him, Chuck Gutenson will take you on a journey through contemporary America and into the heart of your congregation. You’ll see your own assumptions about church and people in new light, and wrestle with issues lurking just beneath the surface in your church and in your life as a leader: What does humility look like? What is the meaning of ‘radical’ hospitality, (and why does it exist almost nowhere in the Church)? And what does it mean to be authentic, really?

Along the way, this thoughtful and convicting book introduces ten church leaders who offer helpful insight from their own experience in churches from California to Georgia. This is not a book on church marketing. There are no tips here on how to dress up what you’ve already got, to make it more appealing. This is a book that will challenge, embolden, and equip you to make church worth getting up for, this Sunday and every Sunday.

 

 

 

 

While research identifies a disturbing exodus from church life by all age groups and young people in particular, many churches continue to maintain the status quo. Can we do no better? Are we too afraid to confront the realities of living in today’s world? Have we failed? This book will help readers create a church worth getting up for. In the book, Chuck Gutenson presents the thoughts of eight successful church leaders, including Deb Hirsch, Al Hirsch, Mike Slaughter, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Chris Seay, Greg Boyd, Olu Brown, and Doug Pagitt. Learn what characteristics they have in common. We all want to be a part of something meaningful—something or someone who will change our lives for the better. The Church has to find new ways to encourage, nurture, guide, inspire, and motivate people to find their true source in Jesus Christ. 'Jesus is worth getting up for." Help people find in your church a means to experience the source of their deepest desires.
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    Product Specs
    • SKU: 9781426757754
    • Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
    • ISBN 13: 9781426757754
    • Binding Type: Adhesive - Perfect Binding
    • Language of Text: English
    • Publication Date: 04/01/2013
    • Format: Paperback
    • Author: Charles E. Gutenson
    • Page Count: 132
    • Width: 6.00 inches
    • Height: 0.25 inches
    • Length: 9.00 inches
    • Weight: 0.00 pounds
    • SKU: 9781426771019
    • Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
    • ISBN 13: 9781426771019
    • Publication Date: 04/01/2013
    • Format: Electronic Media
    • Author: Charles E. Gutenson
    • Page Count: 0
    • Width: 1.00 inches
    • Height: 1.00 inches
    • Length: 1.00 inches
    • Weight: 0.06 pounds
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