num_pages: 192
description: Reflecting on his more than sixty years of service at All Souls and a worldwide ministry that led Time magazine to acknowledge him as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World," John Stott alerts a church that is in transition to the marks of a church that is living.The Living Church is the full articulation of Stott's dream for the body of Christ in the world today. To the people of God who inherit the global church he has helped to build for the past sixty years, he bequeaths this calling:There is such a thing as goodness: pursue it. The postmodern mood is unfriendly to all universal absolutes. Yet the apostle says there is such a thing as truth: fight for it. And there is such a thing as life: lay hold of it. May God enable us to make an unabashed commitment . . . to what is true, what is good and what is real.Market/Audience 
   General readers 
   Pastors 
   Church leaders 
 Endorsements"Gold on every page." RICHARD BEWES, rector emeritus, All Souls Church"Vintage Stott: . . . challenging contemporary applications with plenty of punch; great wisdom." VAUGHAN ROBERTS, author of God's Big Picture"A vision for a church whose roots are deeply biblical and whose touch reaches a dying world." AMY ORR-EWING, Zacharias Trust, author of Is the Bible Intolerant?Features and Benefits 
   An in-depth look at Stott's view of the church 
   One answer to the question "What is church?" 
   Helpful for churchgoers and pastors alike 
 
language: English
title: The Living Church: The Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor
titlecomplete: The Living Church: The Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor
genres: Faith, Leadership, Religion, Nonfiction, Ecclesiology, Church, Theology, Christian, Christian Living, Christianity
ratings_count: 316
publisher: Inter-Varsity Press