Author : Richard W. Headrick
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Church work with the homeless
ISBN : 9780982352311
The true story of the events that took place across America as a successful businessman and his wife spent most of their weekends since 1998 hanging out in the lawns, parking lots and cemeteries of America's churches dressed, not as upstanding citizens, but rather, in the tattered and smelly clothes of the homeless. It is in this guise that they experienced the shocking response of today's Sunday morning, church-going crowds to people to people who "don't look like they do."
Author : Jonathan K. Okinaga
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666706515
Since Benjamin Rush first introduced the disease of wills as the cause of alcoholism, a steady and slow infiltration of the disease model has infected how the church treats those who struggle with addictions. The first organization that truly sought to remove the soul care of addicts from the church was Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), through their bestselling The Big Book of AA and the introduction of the 12 Steps. AA's influence on how the church confronts addiction still reverberates today, with many of the ministries that address addiction firmly rooted in what can be found in AA literature. Addictions were once viewed as an issue caused by sin and best addressed through faith and prayer. Currently addiction is seen through the lens of disease. The ramifications are consequential as more church members are struggling with addictions than ever before. Tracing the progression of addiction from sin to disease will reveal that the SBC and its churches have been negligent in understanding the underlying foundations of AA and the influence that the medicalization of substance abuse has had on how churches approach what should be classified as a sin issue.
Author : James Lutzweiler
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Church work with the homeless
ISBN :
Richard Headrick and his wife Gina scare the hell out of a lot of people. Since they have created an organization known as "Hellfighters," this is not altogether unusual, as that is their work. Not only do they do their best to save the lost from the eternal destination of outer darkness, they try to save them from their present hells. They do this by their active personal involvement in the lives of convicts, prostitutes, alcoholics, drug addicts, and others out of tune with life. They are actively involved in seeking and saving the lost. One way they do this is by means of a book Richard has just written. The title is America's Churches Through the Eyes of a Bum.
Author : Andrew Reed James Matheson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781021554949
This book is an intriguing account of Andrew Reed and James Matheson's journey to the US to study the American Christian Church. It offers insightful observations on the state of Christianity in America and the unique challenges it faces. A great read for anyone interested in Christian history and the US religious landscape. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tiffany Buckner
Publisher : Anointed Fire
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Open your eyes and prepare to see the unyielding truth! Top Heavy, Bottom Fed is about to shatter every thing you thought you knew about serving the LORD. GOD said those who worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth. How is it then that the average American church has invited pagan practices into its pulpits and pews? You will: •Discover how the welfare system works against the Believer. •Discover how the rise of false gods continue to bring down the American system and the churches that submit to it. •Learn the history and setup of the American governmental system and its practices. •Witness how the system demoralizes and persecutes a church that attempts to merge with it. •Learn what are principalities, powers and devils! The truth will shock you!!! •Find out how so many believers are whoring themselves to this devil-made system! •And much more! You will never be the same after reading Top Heavy, Bottom Fed. This book is full of truths that will shock even the most astute believer!
Author : Duke Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category :
ISBN :
This book offers light to today's dark world. It not only diagnoses all churches' debilitating illness, but it also prescribes strong medicine for their health, survival, and positive impact on your life and mine.If you are a serious church person, wouldn't you like your church to make sense in today's world, so you need not check your brain at the door on Sunday morning? Even if your church looks successful from the outside, wouldn't you like it to stop dying on the inside? And wouldn't you like to know what it will take for your church to demonstrate the authenticity of intellectual integrity?As a church person, along with everyone else, the modern, natural world of science shapes your thinking and living during the week. Then on Sundays, you enter the contradictory, biblical, and medieval world of the weird, enchanted forest with ghosts, demons, angels, and other supernatural creatures. To date, you have not acknowledged this deadly contradiction. Either you have not been consciously aware of it or, you have been, but you have not known what to do about it and are afraid facing it could cost you friends, emotional security, and grief. At the same time, you suspect your church is failing in its witness to Jesus' exciting good news and may be dying internally. If you are a knowledgeable, non-church person, whether you were raised in a church and left it, or as an outsider you have tried to find one that is real and been unsuccessful, you know that churches impact you, your family, your friends, and the worlds around you. This book not only assumes your life would be better if churches displayed intellectual integrity and made more positive contributions to your community, but it also describes the radical shakeup it will take to do both.While the book generally addresses how all churches can stop killing themselves, the last of four sections deals directly with the modern history, the bizarre beliefs, the shallow gospel, and the transparent contradictions of the dangerous movement known as Evangelicalism.
Author : Matthew B Wincowski
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1490851127
Finding a coherent set of answers to life's age-old questions can be an onerous undertaking. Yet the questions abound in our culture, and a rational collection of answers is seemingly ungraspable. Commoners have been led to believe that beliefs are irreversibly inconsequential. Youngsters are boldly instructed to merely seek success. Teachers unblushingly preach to students that there is no such thing as truth. With uncountable opinions and beliefs put forth, who ought we to trust? Should we give credence to the preachy words of secularists who do not even have the backbone to adhere to a logically consistent worldview? Are we to trust the pop psychologists who unmindfully and unabashedly bypass life's essential questions? Would it be shrewd of us to subscribe to the pluralists who lack the decency to study incommensurable worldviews, yet absurdly accept contrasting worldviews as equally valid? Whom shall we trust? In a culture where common sense has commonly vanished amongst commoners, we would do well to welcome common sense into our lives. Thinking episodically has become the modern routine, and yet, such a routine suffocates us in the ruins of our own lack of thinking, for thinking episodically is really no way of thinking at all. Perhaps, just perhaps, the answers to life's most pressing questions are within our reach, but first we must be willing to embrace common sense.
Author : James K. Wellman
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426748442
Is Rob Bell the most important leader in the new American religious landscape?
Author : David T. Olson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310277132
Analytical research from a database of more than 200,000 North American churches reveals the population is growing faster than church attendance. This guide shows the problems as well as the potential for American churches.
Author : Elmer L Towns
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2014-05-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780768406115
Here is the story of 10 churches in America that are growing at a very rapid pace. They are different in many respects: sections of the country, age of congregation, age of pastor, and their approach to the task of growth. Author Towns has done a very fine job in elaborating these differences but the major contribution of the book may well be the strong emphasis on the ways in which they are alike. It is must reading for every pastor and church member who is depressed by declining attendance or lack of growth.
