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About The Book
Sustainable Church by Walt Russell, PH.D.
Publisher: Quoir
Publication Date: June 1, 2016
Publication Date: June 1, 2016
Format: Paperback - 234 pages
Kindle - 1844 KB
Nook - 2 MB
ISBN: 978-0991334582
ASIN: B01G4B0DKK
BNID: 978-0991334599
Kindle - 1844 KB
Nook - 2 MB
ISBN: 978-0991334582
ASIN: B01G4B0DKK
BNID: 978-0991334599
Book Description:
Sustainable Church is a thorough, Bible-based exposition of how the ministry of every church should be organically built around all of the Spirit-gifted followers of Jesus within that local body. It critiques the shallow pragmatism and unsustainability of non-organic churches and biblically showcases the sustainability of the organic church. “Body Discipleship” is a key part of the church’s sustainability and the author explains biblically how it corrects the model of discipleship that has been popular for the last 2-3 generations. Additionally, Sustainable Church showcases the servant-model of biblical leaders who are supposed to equip the saints to do the work of ministry on behalf of Jesus, the true Pastor/Shepherd of every local church!
Book Excerpt:
Introduction
MUsin Gs on a cricket basket
Five years ago my wife Marty and I visited
northern Louisiana and stayed in a lovely house on a lake. The owners of the home knew that
I liked to fish and they graciously gifted us with a bait basket
full of crickets. Fishing with crickets was relatively new to me, so
after my first morning of fishing, I was intrigued to observe the cricket bait
container and its
now-depleted population.
The first
thing I noticed
was that if the crickets
had just looked straight up, they would have been
able to jump or crawl up and through the huge opening in the top of the
basket. However, they seemed content to settle
for the confines of the familiar. They could see the
outside world through
the fine mesh
walls of the
basket, but they could
not join it.
Apparently, seeing
it was enough.
I did notice that a very small percentage of crickets had jumped or crawled out of the container by the next morning,
but the vast majority were still captive and crawling up and down the same
walls, over and over. Their
immediate goal seemed
to be avoiding the big hand that periodically
invaded their space!
Christians
can be a bit like the crickets in the cricket basket. We have had our familiar
containers—church traditions—for many centuries. Many aspects of these traditions restrict us in a confined space, where too often we are
satisfied to remain.
About The Author
Walt Russell lives in Southern California with his wife and two married children. His passion for the last 36 years has been teaching God’s people and helping them to find their gifting and ministry role within the Body of Christ. He has planted 2 churches on the East Coast and taught the Bible in seminary for the last 28 years.
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