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Letters To A Future Church
by
Chris Lewis ,
Walter Brueggemann , Shane Claiborne , Tim Challies (Goodreads Author) , Peter Rollins , Tim Arnold , James Shelley , Nathan Colquhoun (Goodreads Author)
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Exiled on the island of Patmos, the apostle John found himself one day in the presence of the Son of God. As he fell down to worship, the apostle was commanded to write what he saw and heard, and to record and send messages to seven churches, encouraging them and challenging them in the way of the Lord. That was then; this is now. What might the Spirit say to our churches...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
February 10th 2012
by InterVarsity Press
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Sometime at the end of the first century, a Christian prophet named John, who lived in the Roman province of Asia (modern-day Turkey) was exiled to a nasty little rock of an island called Patmos. Despite his exile, John continued to worship with his larger Church community on the Lord's Day (Sunday). One of these Sundays, John received a series of visions that became our book of Revelation. John's Revelation begins with Jesus dictating messages to the seven churches in Asia.
John's experience beg...more
John's experience beg...more
I liked this book, but after reading halfway through I started to get a little burned-out on reading so many blog-posts-disguised-as-letters. Don't get me wrong -- some of the letters are very good. I particularly enjoyed the letters by Kathy Escobar, Makoto Fujimura, Rachel Held Evans, and Shane Claiborne. There is a lot of thought-provoking stuff in here.
I guess what I'm saying is that -- like the North American church -- there is something for everyone in this book, but everything is not for...more
I guess what I'm saying is that -- like the North American church -- there is something for everyone in this book, but everything is not for...more
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