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Does evangelism and witnessing make you uncomfortable? If so, you're about to be set free... or maybe you'll become even more uncomfortable.
Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing for Men as an allegorical story about a man's quest to become a world-famous fisherman-without ever catching any fish.
As an allegory about evangelism, this book is not about fishing, but about fishing for men.
While a few of the stories...
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Can Christianity exist without religious rites or legal rights?Are baptism and communion required for the church to exist?What about the freedom of religion and the right to assemble?Building on what he has written in other volumes of the "Close Your Church for Good" series, Jeremy Myers argues that our traditions of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and our dependence on the legal rights from the government, have actually hindered the growth and development...
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Churches around the world are trying to revitalize their church services. There is almost nothing they will not try. Some embark on multi-million dollar building campaigns while others sell their buildings to plant home churches. Some hire celebrity pastors to attract crowds of people, while others hire no clergy so that there can be open sharing in the service.Yet despite everything churches have tried, few focus much time, money, or energy on the...
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How can you lead the church as Jesus wants? One of the key problems in pastoral leadership today is that few people truly understand what leadership looks like, how leaders become leaders, and what leaders are supposed to do with their leadership position. This book shows that true pastoral leadership begins at the top with the pastor, and the best way for a pastor to lead is to show the church what it looks like to follow Jesus into servanthood and...
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Do you want to be the church?
How can you, if you don't know what the church actually is?
Only after you understand what the church is can you begin to properly live and function as God's church in this world.
Thankfully, “Skeleton Church” simply and easily defines "church" for you, so that you can embark on the thrilling adventure of being the church and following Jesus wherever He leads.
By reading this book, you will also discover answers...
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What if true church growth begins by allowing the church to die?In The Death and Resurrection of the Church, Jeremy Myers proposes that most modern church growth practices are built on faulty premises. Some of these are even rooted in the false promises that Satan offered to Jesus in the wilderness temptations.If we want the church to grow and thrive, it first needs to die to these false promises. The church must stop striving after strength, power,...
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Close Your Church for Good is a book for churches that want to reach their community with love and service, but feel stuck in the tradition of their current service and program structure. They want to reach others for Jesus, but just don't know how. Within these pages are concrete, hard-hitting, and risky suggestions for how your church can love your community with nothing more than what you have in your church right now. You don't need to raise funds,...
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Many people think of church as a place and time where people gather, a way for ministry money to be given and spent, and a building in which people regularly meet on Sunday mornings.In this book, Jeremy Myers shows that church is more than bodies, bucks, and bricks.Church is the people of God who follow Jesus into the world, and we can be the church no matter how many people we are with, no matter the size of our church budget, and regardless of whether...
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Liberating youth through theological reflection on vocation
Jeremy P. Myers, a seasoned expert in youth and family ministry, calls the church to challenge the dominant societal view of adolescents as "underdeveloped consumers" who can only contribute creatively, when they mature into adulthood. Myers argues that young people are innately creative creatures called by God to love and serve right now. We need to see young people as the called co-creators...
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Romans 9 has been a theological battleground for centuries. Scholars from all perspectives have debated whether Paul is teaching corporate or individual election, whether or not God truly hates Esau, and how to understand the hardening of Pharaoh's heart. Both sides have accused the other of misrepresenting God.
In this book, J. D. Myers presents a mediating position. Gleaning from both Calvinistic and Arminian insights into Romans 9, J. D. Myers...
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Stop worrying about how to pray, and just start praying! This book reveals the simple truth that you already know how to pray.
Once you know how to pray as discussed in this book, you will also discover that you already know what to pray for and how to see more answers to your prayers.
Read this book and find the freedom and power in your prayer life you have always longed for.
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Did Jesus die so that God could forgive us for our sins? Many believe so.
The most ancient view of the atonement teaches that Jesus did not die to appease the wrath of God or gain forgiveness for human sin, but rather to defeat sin, death, and the devil, and reveal to us the unconditional love and grace of God. This was a Non-Violent view of the atonement. Yes, the death of Jesus was violent, but the violence was not because God needed blood to pay...