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People Are the Mission
- How Churches Can Welcome Guests Without Compromising the Gospel
- Narrated by: Danny Franks, Craig Hinkle, John Behrens
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Includes audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary from the author!
If you’re a leader in a church or business, and you want to improve your culture of hospitality, then you’ll love Danny’s new book. It’s a must-read! -Dan T. Cathy, CEO, Chick-fil-A
When it comes to interacting with guests, churches typically gravitate towards one of two camps: over-the-top, shock-and-awe, let-us-entertain-you or oh-man,-some-people-just-showed-up, underwhelming experience. Each extreme has drawbacks: on one end, people become the center of the universe. On the other, hospitality is effectively ignored in deference to the "serious business" of worship.
People Are the Mission proposes a healthy middle, one where guests are esteemed but the gospel is the goal. Danny Franks, Connections Pastor at Summit Church, shows churches how to take a more balanced approach—a "third way" that is both guest-friendly and gospel-centric. He shows why honoring the stranger doesn't stand in opposition to honoring the Savior. People are the mission that Christ has called us to, and if we focus on people we can better assist people to focus on the gospel.
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Let's face it. Church isn't working. We hear sermons about the abundant life Jesus promised, but how many of us are actually living it? How many of our churches are thriving? How many people in our congregations are experiencing God's blessings? Maybe it's time to call it quits. Quit church? Well, not exactly. Drawing from his experience coaching hundreds of churches toward true growth, Chris Sonksen calls on us to quit our casual, cultural commitment to church as we know it....
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Quit Church
- By larry jenkins on 06-07-18
By: Chris Sonksen
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Upward, Inward, Outward
- Love God, Love Yourself, Love Others
- By: Daniel Fusco
- Narrated by: Daniel Fusco
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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This book is about discovering together how to understand and live the Greatest Commandment. We're not after the "art of thinking about God a little differently". We're here to uncover the needs God created within us - needs for meaning, intimacy, honesty, humility, justice, compassion, and more - and how he designed us to find those needs fulfilled in him.
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Amazing!!
- By kim morgan on 06-17-21
By: Daniel Fusco
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Rebuilt
- Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, Making Church Matter
- By: Michael White, Tom Corcoran
- Narrated by: Michael White, Tom Corcoran
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life. Rebuilt is a story of stopping everything and changing focus. When their parish reached a breaking point, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran asked themselves how they could make the Church matter to Catholics.
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Don't Do What's Suggested Unless You Will OWN IT.
- By Julia S on 02-06-18
By: Michael White, and others
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Come and See
- Everything You Ever Wanted in the One Place You Would Never Look
- By: Todd Wagner, John Driver
- Narrated by: Todd Wagner
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Pastor Todd Wagner invites listeners to experience the adventure, beauty, and fullness of life through the church as God intended. Obligated weekly services of mostly bored adults are not God's vision for His people. Todd illuminates a path for listeners to personally pursue a deeper relationship with God and then purposefully invest in God's design for His church. This book paints the picture of the Father's intention to bring His people into an adventurous life full of authentic relationships, powerful transformation, significance, and meaning.
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God is good!
- By Boyd Pelley on 11-22-17
By: Todd Wagner, and others
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The 10-Second Rule
- Following Jesus Made Simple
- By: Clare De Graaf
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful audiobook, you’ll discover a memorable, simple way to be attentive to the voice of God and courageously obedient to the promptings of the Spirit. You’ll find practical ideas for discerning God’s will, and you’ll hear stories of ordinary men and women - just like you - who are living by the Rule and how it has transformed their lives and the lives of those they reach out to. The 10-Second Rule is a call to rediscover the revolutionary power of simple obedience as Jesus taught it and the early church lived it, before religious Christianity tamed it!
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worth the time to read
- By karla clark 1961 on 01-19-22
By: Clare De Graaf
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Follow Me
- A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
- By: David Platt
- Narrated by: David Platt
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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In this new audiobook, David Platt, author of the New York Times best-selling book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, contends that multitudes of people around the world culturally think they are Christians yet biblically are not followers of Christ.
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Needed this!
- By Curan on 12-09-15
By: David Platt
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Speak Life
- Restoring Healthy Communication in How You Think, Talk, and Pray
- By: Brady Boyd
- Narrated by: Wes Bleed
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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The most important conversation you'll have. Why do so many of our conversations with one another lead to misunderstanding and hurt feelings? Brady Boyd turns to the example of Jesus Christ to show that the health of our conversations can be only as vibrant as the health of our interactions with God. As Proverbs says, "The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing" (Proverbs 12:18 niv).
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Wonderful book, so much wisdom
- By R. Smith on 01-16-24
By: Brady Boyd
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Unfinished
- Believing Is Only the Beginning
- By: Richard Stearns
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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So you believe in God. Now what? Just before he left, Jesus sent his followers into the world with a revolutionary mission: to change the world by proclaiming God’s truth and demonstrating his incredible love. But the single task he gave us to accomplish remains unfinished. Rich Stearns takes us on a breathtaking journey to rediscover the critical mission of Christ in our world today and the richness of God’s calling on our lives.
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UNFINISHED
- By Anonymous User on 04-30-21
By: Richard Stearns
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Church: Why Bother?
- By: Philip Yancey
- Narrated by: Maurice England
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Insights from Philip Yancey's personal pilgrimage away from and back to the church. Why are there so many more professing Christians than churchgoing Christians? Is it because something is wrong with the church? In his candid, thought-provoking manner, award-winning author Philip Yancey reveals the reasons behind his own journey back from skepticism to wholehearted participation in the church, and weighs the church's human failings against its compelling worth as the body of Christ.
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Indeed, Why Bother with Church?
- By David on 07-10-17
By: Philip Yancey
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Speaking of Jesus
- The Art of Non-Evangelism
- By: Carl Medearis
- Narrated by: Jim Sanders
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Quit defending Christianity. Author Carl Medearis is not interested in keeping Christianity alive. Not one bit. Carl believes it has grown into something that is rarely attractive, frequently divisive, and all too often embarrassing. He believes you may feel this way too. In his new audiobook, Speaking of Jesus, Carl gives us a wink and a grin and the permission to stop feeding this thing called Christianity. His offer is that doing so allows us the freedom to relax and feast on Jesus.
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Great Reminder of Spreading the Good News
- By John on 01-02-12
By: Carl Medearis
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Messy Grace
- How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
- By: Caleb Kaltenbach
- Narrated by: Caleb Kaltenbach
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Caleb Kalenbach is the Lead Pastor at Discovery Church in Simi Valley, CA. Raised in the LGBT community, he was exposed to how some Christians treated the LGBT community, and grew to hate Christians. In high school, he joined a Bible study to disprove the Bible, but ended up following Jesus instead. Later, his parents followed Jesus, too. This is the subject of his first book, Messy Grace - holding on to the truth of God's Word while being filled with grace.
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Nice try, but Inconsistent
- By LP on 09-17-16
By: Caleb Kaltenbach
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Crazy Love (Revised and Updated)
- Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
- By: Francis Chan
- Narrated by: Francis Chan
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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The God of the universe - the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do's and don'ts - it's falling in love with God.
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A Blessing
- By Red on 11-02-13
By: Francis Chan
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- Zaron Garza
- 08-30-24
Loved it!
It was great! Very helpful! It gave me a lot to think about in the terms of ministry and the part I and my team play in the front line ministry of the inital interactions with guests and others who attend.
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