A Short Guide to Church: What Is it All About
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A Short Guide to Church: What Is it All About  -     By: Dean Inserra

A Short Guide to Church: What Is it All About

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Does God expect his followers to go to church? Inserra encourages us to resist the modern American claim that church attendance is an option and embrace God's glorious design, purpose, and reason for belonging to a local congregation: to grow in grace, increase our faith, disciple one another, and become missionaries to the world---together. 160 pages, hardcover from B&H.

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Title: A Short Guide to Church: What Is it All About
By: Dean Inserra
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 160
Vendor: B&H Books
Publication Date: 2024
Dimensions: 7 X 5 X 0.41 (inches)
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 1430091959
ISBN-13: 9781430091950
Series: Short Guide
Stock No: WW091950

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A common claim in modern American Christianity is that you don’t have to go to church to be a Christian. The writers of the New Testament, however, would find a Christian faith separate from the church to be unrecognizable. Dean Inserra has often said to his congregation, "There is more to being a Christian than going to church, but there certainly isn’t less." Belonging to a local church is not something made up by a Christian subculture. The local church was God’s design. It is his grand idea to display his glory and provide the avenue for his people to flourish as his missionaries to the world. When one begins to see the church as God’s plan, the mindset shifts from going to church in order to claim Christianity to seeing oneself as a participant in what God has given his people as a gift.
 
There is a purpose, design, and reason for why the church functions in the manner she does. Consistent practices that may seem as merely tradition upon first glance, are prescribed by God for his people to practice together until Christ returns. The local church, congregated together, is the Lord’s primary plan for discipleship, fellowship, and mission for the Christian life. A Short Guide to Church is not a technical treatment of ecclesiology, but rather a book to put in the hands of every prospective and current church member, to help the body of Christ, expressed locally, to see the purposes and plan of the local church for their life of faith, and why it truly is the best thing going.

Author Bio

Dean Inserra is the lead pastor of City Church in his hometown of Tallahassee, Florida. He is a graduate of Liberty University and Midwestern Seminary. Dean has previously authored four books and frequently works with the Send Network of the North American Mission Board. He and his wife Krissie have four children and are big fans of the local church.

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