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Faithful Presence

Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

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Faithful Presence

By: David E. Fitch
Narrated by: Jim Denison
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In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now, in the post-Christian world in North America, we're asking the question again: Is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation but by becoming the good news in our culture?

In Faithful Presence, noted pastor and scholar David Fitch offers a new vision for the witness of the church in the world. He argues that we have lost the intent and practice of the sacramental ways of the historic church, and he recovers seven disciplines that have been with us since the birth of the church. Through numerous examples and stories, he demonstrates how these revolutionary disciplines can help the church take shape in and among our neighborhoods, transform our way of life in the world, and advance the kingdom. This book will help you reenvision church, what you do in the name of church, and the way you lead a church. It recovers a future for the church that takes us beyond Christendom. Embrace the call to reimagine the church as the living embodiment of Christ, dwelling in and reflecting God's faithful presence to a world that desperately needs more of it.

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Very practical in its approach and theologically sound. It is encouraging and inspiring for practitioners in the field of ministry.

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This book showed me how Jesus' words in the sermon on the mount could be walked out in modern life. Lots of good examples of what it looks like to take Jesus' words seriously today. One thing that has stuck with me is that Jesus is in this world and is at work in people - we need eyes to see who He is working on and reach out to them. We are never alone as we reach out to people in the name of God - He is faithful and has gone before.

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