Product Description

A handbook for the Christian journey into the third millennium. Surveying the Church, scripture, spirituality, holiness and salvation, it presents a way to escape lethargy, despair and endless waiting around for revival to descend miraculously from on high.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #585658 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Hope for a terminal church
'The Christian church is dying in the West. This painful fact is the cause of the great deal of avoidance by the Christian community. To use terminology drawn from pastoral care, the terminally sick patient is somewhere between denial and bargaining'.

This is how Mike Riddell, theologian, freelance writer and speaker, begins as he sets out to take his reader on a journey of hard questions for the Western church in the light of the culture around us. How does the Christian community live, worship and evangelise in a changing world which has little regard for the morals, teachings and doctrines of the church, seeing it as just another option amongst many?

Riddell dares to think 'outside the box' which he claims many evangelical Christians find hard to see beyond. He has brilliant observations into the life and structural make up of the church, seeking to 'call back the community of Christ to its radical roots and it's essential character as a missionary body'.

This book will fuel your fire to passionately engage yourself and the church (if you attend one) once again with the people you live and work around, without compromising the message. Riddell seeks to inspire us to think outside of our traditions and experiences, to allow us to see a God who may just be at work in places we never expected him to be.