The Prayer of Jabez

This small book, less than 100 undersized pages, with a modest price, covering two verses in the thirteenth book of the Bible could change your life.
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Reaching for the Invisible God

If it is true that one good thought is enough for one day, Reaching for the Invisible God would take forever to read.
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Engaging Unbelief

Chang shows how both Augustine and Aquinas entered into the challenger's story, then retold the challenger's story, and finally captured it. Repeat this pattern, Chang advises, to reach the postmoderns.
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"Our Churches Best Kept Secret"

Randy Frazee, The Connecting Church, Beyond Small Groups To Authentic Community, Zondervan, 2001, pp. 20, 21.
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Category: Church Life
ISBN: 0310233089
Keywords: church, authentic community, Chinese proverb, small group, mission of discipleship, congregation, leaders, trial and error, Zondervan, Frazee, Randy Frazee

"We spent the entire day talking openly about the best-kept secret in our church: Small groups were not achieving authentic community. There is a Chinese proverb that says, 'Whom the gods want to destroy they send forty years success.' We had successfully rebuilt our church numerically, using the small group structure. Now we were faced with the awful reality that our system was not really working to accomplish the mission of discipleship in the lives of our people--including us who were leaders. . . .

The purpose of this book is to bring this discovery to light and to share what we as a church have done and are doing with it. While the principles that undergird the characteristics are timeless and the concepts have been percolating in our congregation for years, we have been implementing the full ideas contained in this book only since the beginning of 1997. Admittedly, we are learning through trial and error, and what we are doing must be viewed as a process rather than as a completed program."

SoAmazing Review: Randy Frazee, in The Connecting Church, Beyond Small Groups To Authentic Community, argues that the church can only be the hope of the world if it truly achieves authentic community.

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