In a culture that promotes isolation and autonomy, this book reveals life-changing methods for creating healthy relationships and authentic community. Readers learn to apply New Testament principles that capture the essence of Jesus' teachings about effectively caring, serving, and loving one another. Beginning with God's simple command to "Love one another," this book shows how to: * develop deep, genuine friendships * model to others a relationship with Jesus * create meaningful interaction with strangers * avoid the pitfalls of judging others * show people love, acceptance, kindness, and respect Complete with discussion questions, this book is appropriate for both individuals and church groups. It is a must for all Christians who wish to practice being the church rather than merely attending one.

Authentic Relationships Discover the Lost Art of "One Anothering"

Wayne Jacobsen

Clay Jacobsen

Baker Books

Develop nurturing friendships that lead to authentic community with this insightful look at the "one another" passages in Scripture.

Authentic Relationships: Discover the Lost Art of "One Anothering"

Jacobsen, Clay

Religion & Spirituality

Jake Colsen, an overworked and disillusioned pastor, happens into a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance (in manner) to the apostle John. A number of encounters with John as well as a family crisis lead Jake to a new understanding of what his life should be like: one filled with faith bolstered by a steady, close relationship with the God of the universe. Facing his own disappointment with Christianity, Jake must forsake the habits that have made his faith rote and rediscover the love that captured his heart when he first believed. Compelling and intensely personal, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO CHURCH ANYMORE relates a man's rebirth from performance-based Christianity to a loving friendship with Christ that affects all he does, thinks, and says. As John tells Jake, "There is nothing the Father desires for you more than that you fall squarely in the lap of his love and never move from that place for the rest of your life."

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore

Literature & Fiction

Dave Coleman

Literary

Windblown Media

The farmer knows not to look for grapes in spring nor lament the barrenness of winter. Each season is critical in making his vineyard fruitful. The same is true for you. Fruitfulness is part of a cycle that includes promise and hope, perseverance and struggle,and even rest and refreshing. Recognizing that God works differently depending on what season you re going through will help you embrace his greater process and not strive so much in your own efforts. When Jesus wanted his followers to understand what it meant for them to be fruitful he took them to a vineyard and showed them how they could live in him like a branch lives in a vine. In this compelling book Wayne Jacobsen combines his experience of growing up on a vineyard, forty years of biblical study, and his own life-long relationship with Jesus to help unpack Jesus words so you can live free and full in him. In Season will help you embrace a dynamic, transforming relationship with Jesus, respond to what he is doing in you each day rather than just reacting to difficult circumstances, discover the fruitfulness that comes not from your own efforts, but from a fulfilled life in him, and engage a richer and more effectual conversation with him in your daily life.

In Season: Embracing the Father's Process of Fruitfulness

Trailview Media

If, like many other people, you have questioned whether there is something more to Jesus church than the religious institutions we ve inherited after two thousand years, you ll want to read Finding Church. Here is straight talk from a man who has sought authentic New Testament community for more than fifty years and who has discovered it in the most unlikely places. Now Wayne wants to help you find this incredible bride Jesus is shaping by looking at the church as God sees her and by recognizing her as she takes shape around you. His church is a living temple, springing up in the individual heart and then knit into a worldwide community of people whose very relationships put God s glory on display. There s no way human effort can build it or sustain it, which is why our attempts fall so woefully short. She is the fruit of a new creation of men and women who live beyond the human conventions of society and share a life in Jesus that satisfies their most ardent hunger.

Finding Church: What If There Really Is Something More?

People are abandoning our religious institutions in droves. In the last few decades sixty-five million Americans who once attended a local church, no longer do. About half of those no longer self-identify as Christian, but over thirty-one million still do and are seeking a more relevant faith beyond Sunday-morning Christianity. What do we make of this exodus and how will it affect the future of the church? Does it portend the end of Western Christianity? Wayne Jacobsen doesn t think so. Having met with thousands of people around the world who are done with religious institutions, he is more hopeful than ever that this phenomenon might help revitalize the church Jesus is building. Whether you attend a local church or you're done with it, how we respond will have repercussions for generations to come. This is our opportunity to embrace God's work in a wider way than any single institution can contain.

Beyond Sundays

Title: So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore Binding: Hardcover Publication date: 2006

Jesus continues to be the most engaging person who ever lived, not only a man of compelling words and incredible miracles, but also a man who treated others around Him as they had never been treated before. Now, through the brush of award-winning artist, Murry Whiteman, and the pen of authors, and collaborators on The Shack, Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings, experience the richness of the One who set the world on fire. In provocative paintings and insightful prose, these three unveil the life and teachings of Jesus to show how truly unique a person He was. Discover a fresh Jesus growing up and beginning to grasp His identity as God s Son, living loved through the temptations and turmoil He faced, and finally offering His own life to rescue people He loved from the darkness and fears that held them captive. Let Him become more to you than just the character in a book, a name used by those who fight over doctrine, or an empty religious icon. In Him the God of the universe came and took up residence in His own creation. The world has never been the same since.

A Man Like No Other: The Illustrated Life of Jesus

Brad Cummings

Murry Whiteman

Windblown Media, Inc.

When Jesus talked about giving us an abundant life he wasn't talking primarily about pain-free circumstances and material blessings. He was talking about an inner life so rich and real that it could carry us through lifes difficulties. By focusing on his kingdom not our comfort we can discover how God wants to walk with us and set us increasingly free to live in God revealing himself rather than being swallowed up in the illusions of this world. Living loved, free, and full results from a growing engagement with him at this heart level. These insights are designed to draw your heart into God's reality each day with a focus that will open a doorway for you to see your world through his eyes and with the wisdom he has to help navigate your day and the people in it. 
They will help you gain confidence in how deeply loved by God you are. 
Recognize how he nudges you with spiritual insight. 
Lean into a growing trust in the way God is working in you. 
Enjoy sharing his love with others in ways that will transform the world around you. 
Rest from your own efforts and learn to cooperate with what he is doing. 
Find the freedom to follow him especially when it isn't easy. 
Then you will find yourself experiencing the joy of living loved, living free, and living in his fullness.

Live Loved Free Full

Blue Sheep Media, LLC.

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Authentic Relationships Discover the Lost Art of "One Anothering"

Authentic Relationships: Discover the Lost Art of "One Anothering"

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore

In Season: Embracing the Father's Process of Fruitfulness

Finding Church: What If There Really Is Something More?

Beyond Sundays

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore

A Man Like No Other: The Illustrated Life of Jesus

Live Loved Free Full

So You Don't Want To Go To Church Anymore