14 posts tagged portable faith

Church Burns Down and Decides Not To Rebuild Building

Imagine your church's building was unexpectedly destroyed in a natural disaster. Even though the building was insured, your pastor and the church board make a surprising decision not to rebuild it right away. Rather, they decide to take a year to reflect on how your congregation does church and consider how you might be able to function as a congregation in the community...even without a building. ??After a year of living and being the church in the community, the leadership expects to reconstruct a completely different building that reflects what the congregation learns during their year.

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An Excerpt From Portable Faith, Which Releases Monday

You can read more about Portable Faith, which releases Monday, here. Or go straight to Amazon and see for yourself.

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Who influenced the stage of your life you’re living now?

...whenever I strike out to write an acknowledgements page for a book, I try to get even more specific. To review my personal history with the project at hand and think back to who influenced me at the time I developed an interest in the subject matter contained in the book.

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Portable Faith: Taking Faith Beyond the Four Walls of Your Building

33 activities aimed at raising awareness about the people living on the church's margins. A book for for church leaders, those wandering nomads who feel most comfortable outside the church, those lovely, crazy zealots who find the best visions of God in soup kitchens and mountain hikes, in protests on Capitol Hill or in the lyrics of a folk song...and everyone in between. It’s for anyone willing to get his or her hands dirty in the work of Jesus.

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