What's the Matter with the Church? : A Call to Renewal

by Willis, William

• ISBN13: 9781932717075
• ISBN10: 1932717072
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Hope Publishing House

Summary

This is a call to church renewal by a retired United Methodist minister with a Ph.D. in pastoral counseling. He looks at the "matter"--the heart--of the church and challenges those who care about the church to take the demands of their faith seriously as they work out what God wants from the faith community as it worships together, serves together and becomes knit into the Body of Christ here on earth.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: If the Shoe Fits	p. 1
Seven Last Words	p. 6
The Great Leveler	p. 9
Positively Wrong	p. 19
A Strange Word	p. 31
Leaving out the Salt	p. 40
Universal Ephesus	p. 45
The Baby and the Bathwater	p. 51
Shepherds or Hired Hands?	p. 58
First Things First	p. 62
Education Without Learning	p. 66
Not like Us	p. 71
The Little Foxes	p. 75
Keeping it in the Family	p. 79
Unopened Gifts	p. 85
Dying for a Good Cause	p. 89
Let's Go!	p. 96
More than a Feeling	p. 103
Killing the Bear	p. 108
Born for Trouble	p. 120
Let's Talk	p. 124
Let's Have Fun	p. 128
Let's Get Together	p. 131
He's the One	p. 138
Realizing the Vision	p. 141
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