Life After Church: God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
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Life After Church: God's Call to Disillusioned Christians  -     By: Brian Sanders

Life After Church: God's Call to Disillusioned Christians

InterVarsity Press / 2007 / Paperback

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From personal experience as someone who has left the church, author Brian Sanders examines what factors erode our trust in congregational and institutional churches, while exploring what it really means to "be the church." Sanders then exhorts disillusioned Christians to either remain in your church seeking Christ's blessing and His reform, or to depart gracefully and move purposefully toward the kingdom of God that is beyond institution. In either situation, Brian reminds you to keep listening for God's call.

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Title: Life After Church: God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
By: Brian Sanders
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 172
Vendor: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 2007
Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 8 ounces
ISBN: 0830836063
ISBN-13: 9780830836062
Stock No: WW836062

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Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine. And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. In either case, Brian Sanders has a word for you. Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:

  • Stay. Remain in your church with the blessing of Christ and in the power of his great vision for the church to come.
  • Take the path of revolutionary leaving. Move purposefully, seeking the kingdom of God that is beyond institutions.

Whether Sunday mornings find you alone in a one-bedroom apartment or isolated in a church of thousands, Brian reminds you to keep listening for God's call. Reform the church that is Christ's. Be it from the inside out, or the outside in.

Author Bio

Brian Sanders founded and directs Tampa Underground (tampaunderground.com), a missional network of microchurches in urban Tampa, Florida. He has served as a teaching pastor at a local church and has helped to launch more than fifteen home churches.

Editorial Reviews

It helps to get the insight to what thinking goes on in the minds of some of those within or even outside of the church.

-- Matthew Christensen, TheoSource, April 28, 2008

Brian encourages Christians not to give up on the church as a whole, but instead seek God for more clarity of mission, values, and vision for their life going forward.

-- LW, The Journal of Student Ministries, May/June 2008

Sanders advocates a renewed focus on the missional call of the church to be the body of Christ to nonbelievers skeptical of faith without works and justice without mercy.

-- Sean Fowlds in Ministry Today, March/April 2008

"Sanders offers helpful guidance to those who are considering leaving church as well as to those who have chosen to stay, providing the latter with practical suggestions on how to reform the church from within and maintain their joy in the process. For those who have chosen to leave, Sanders provides a chapter on how to leave respectfully and graciously."

-- Marcia Ford, FaithfulReader.com, January 2008

"I certainly appreciated [Sanders's] emphasis on scripture. . . . His helpful and pastoral advice to those leaving the church is mature and practical. Sanders also has a wonderful grasp of the mission of the church. His vision for the church is a positive and enthusiastic vision that will benefit every reader. Most of all, Sanders helps all his readers see through the eyes and experiences of those who are 'leaving' the church in some way."

-- Michael Spencer, internetmonk.com, January 29, 2008

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