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The Living Church

The Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor

by John Stott

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Intervarsity Press (IVP)
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm

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John Stott shares ways a Church can grow and be truly alive

You'll gain pastoral insights and ways of encouraging growth

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What exactly is a living church?

Author John Stott explains, 'We need more radically conservative churches: "conservative" in the sense that they conserve what Scripture plainly requires, but radical in relation to that combination of tradition and convention that we call "culture". Scripture is unchangeable, but culture is not.'

The Living Church brings together a number of characteristics of what the author calls 'authentic' or 'living' church. The marks, being clearly biblical, are timeless and need to be preserved.

We are encouraged to become learning churches, caring churches, worshipping churches and evangelising churches.

John Stott unpacks the Bible's wisdom rigorously with a teacher's skill and applies it faithfully with a pastor's heart. Becoming a living church is not an impossible goal.

  • Title

    The Living Church

  • Author

    John Stott

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Intervarsity Press (IVP)

  • Published

    October 2014

  • Edition

    Re-jacket

  • Weight

    232g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781783591794

  • ISBN-10

    178359179X

  • Eden Code

    4297092