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100 1  Samra, James George,|d1972- 
245 14 The gift of church :|bhow God designed the local church to
       meet our needs as Christians|h[Hoopla electronic resource]
       /|cJim Samra. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bZondervan,|c2010. 
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511 1  Read by Tom Parks. 
520    All too many people are disappointed with the church, 
       struggle with the church, or have already left the church.
       For example, Josh is the father of a young family. The 
       demands (and illnesses) that go along with little children,
       traveling, friends coming for weekend visits and general 
       busyness have kept him from getting his family very 
       involved in church. Mason is an extremely successful 
       businessman. He thinks the church is slow and inefficient.
       He shows up most weeks because his wife wants him to, but 
       he hangs out with wealthy friends from around the country.
       They get together on a regular basis, pay for a speaker to
       come and talk to them and call it good. Jerry's is aware 
       that he is not supposed to stop assembling together with 
       other believers, but that is what he is doing, so what's 
       the big deal? Mark is a single young adult who was coming 
       to church and was getting involved, but his girlfriend 
       pulled him away from church and he has no rationale for 
       why he should fight to stay involved. He drifted away and 
       although people told him he needed to stay connected, he 
       didn't see why they were so concerned. Char is a high 
       school girl who doesn't like the youth group at church and
       only comes because her parents make her. She has asked her
       parents why she has to go to church and they haven't been 
       able to give her a good answer, except that it is 
       something that she needs to do. In each of these cases, if
       they might not naturally pick up this book, Josh's brother,
       Mason's son-in-law, Mark's friend and Char's dad can give 
       it to them to read. Or these who have influence with them 
       can read it themselves to have a better understanding of 
       the absolute necessity of active participation in a local 
       church so that they could share verbally. Pollster George 
       Barna claims in Revolution, that millions of American 
       Christians are moving away from the traditional local 
       church to alternative Christian communities or to no 
       community at all. Leadership Journal published an article 
       that argues that people want to turn to places other than 
       the local church for community and teaching. The Pew 
       Report released a study showing the number of people 
       switching churches and those with no church affiliation 
       has grown considerably. This is a very important and issue
       that needs to be addressed. This book addresses the issue 
       so that church or parachurch small groups can read 
       together and discuss the questions at the end of chapters.
       The book is designed to help readers more deeply value 
       church and what church ought to look like. Five short 
       chapters provide a helpful overview of the case for the 
       church, using scripture and illustrated with stories from 
       real life. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Parishes. 
650  0 Church. 
700 1  Parks, Tom. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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