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7 Book Recommendations on "The Church"

by Brian Flewelling on February 19, 2020

It seems there are few things more controversial in our American culture than the Church. Even within the Church we don't always fully know what our purpose is and just how God intends to use us. 

Here are seven unique perspectives that will help you better understand the Church.

It’s difficult to underestimate the impact Dietrich Bonhoeffer

had on the 20th century. This calling to live out Christianity in the

rigors of community still stands tall in Church historical literature.

Everyone who’s read The Emotionally Healthy Church or Emotionally Healthy

Spirituality  by Peter Scazzero knows that its deep, rich, and foundational material

for growing healthy families and communities.

A call for the Church to return to it’s roots and be a family. This book came

highly recommended by Pastor Gary Buck at Hopewell Elverson.  

Keith Yoder delivers one of the most essential lessons on what the Church was designed to be—a discerning community operating under the authority of Jesus. Yoder teaches your church and ministry teams how to make room for the presence of Jesus in your meetings and submit to his strategies within your community.

This book takes a historical approach to the shift in our understand of Church after the great Catholic / Protestant split.

Leonard Sweet is a fantastic author who connects easily with his audience.

In this book he makes the case for how to connect the next generation in community.

It’s hard to avoid Rick Warren—“America’s Pastor”—and the universal way in which he shows the core principles of the Acts 2 community being lived out in 21st century churches built around small groups. 

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