Church: Why Bother?
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- Synopsis
- WHY BOTHER WITH CHURCH? Maybe you've asked yourself that question, even as you've rolled dutifully out of bed each Sunday. Or perhaps rolling out is a thing of the past. The question has long since become your answer: Why bother? In response, award-winning author and journalist Philip Yancey shares snapshots from his own pilgrimage away from and back to the church. Growing up in a strict fundamentalist church in Georgia, Yancey knows firsthand the different reasons people leave church. Many of them were the same reasons that kept him away until he took a deeper look at what the church is really about. In Church: Why Bother? Yancey offers a thought-provoking and honest portrait of God's redemptive power released through the fallible human beings that make up the church. Yancey does not whitewash the church's faults. Rather, he sets them against the overwhelming balance of its strengths: its heart for God, its care for the hurting, its outreach to the lost, and its value as family and community. And he reminds us that, for all its shortcomings, it is the body of Christ--God's chosen agent for bestowing grace on a grace-starved world.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 106 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780310202004
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/05
- Copyrighted By:
- Philip D. Yancey
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Mike Pietruk
- Proofread By:
- Lisa Soulor
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.