Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community (Re:Lit)
"In an age of ambiguity and apathy for the church, Total Church accurately and insightfully identifies the local church as a gospel community on mission with Jesus."—Mark Driscoll,Founding Pastor, Mars Hill Church, Seattle Washington; Founder, Resurgence; Co-founder, Acts 29; author,Death by Love "Challenging, passionate and insightful. Here is a vision of a whole-life, whole-mission 'Total Church' that embraces both gospel and community."—Chris Stoddart, Director, Reaching The Unchurched Network"Here is radical, punchy teaching that provokes, stimulates, challenges, and inspires."—Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe’s, Oxford, England; Director, The Proclamation Trust; author,God's Big Picture"Total Church digs deep and provides a solid biblical foundation for what it advocates. The argument of the book is very compelling and at the same time very practical."—David W. Jones, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Coordinator of ThM and Thesis Studies, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; author,Reforming the Morality of Usury"Written not by armchair experts but by hands-on practitioners, Total Church explores what it means in practice to be both gospel-centered and community-centered. This would be an excellent book to give to your leaders, and to the wider church membership, to provoke discussion and prompt change."—Peter J. Grainger, Senior Minister, Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh"Reformed theology and new ways of being church are often regarded as incompatible notions. In this book Tim Chester and Steve Timmis aim to bring the two together in a way that they believe will help church leaders identify ways of relating a conservative theology to the culture, without compromising dearly held principles."—John Drane, Freelance Consultant to churches in the UK; Professor of Practical Theology, Fuller Seminary, California