num_pages: 112
description: Insights from Philip Yanceys 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 churchs human failings against its compelling worth as the body of Christ. Yancey does not whitewash the churchs faults rather he sets them against the overwhelming balance of its strengths: its heart for God its care for the hurting its outreach to the lost and its value as family and community.
language: English
title: Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage
publisher: Zondervan