Tom and the Goldfish Bowl - Softcover

Pasley, Ben

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9780982543412: Tom and the Goldfish Bowl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982543417 ISBN 13: 9780982543412

Publisher: Blue Renaissance Publishing, 2009

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This fascinating book combines fictional allegory and hard hitting insights on the Kingdom of God, the Church, and the institutions of modern Christian culture-the traditions of men. Anyone struggling to reconcile their love for Jesus with modern Christian culture and all its conflicted systems will jump up and down on the hood of their car after reading this book. It is entertaining and enlightening! Why does Jesus only mention Church twice in all the Bible? What is the difference between a father and a manager? Is the institutional Church really headed for extinction? Just what is the Kingdom of God? Why do we say "your church" and "my church" if there is only one Church? This book takes a serious look into these questions about the nature of the Church. It challenges the very forms and functions that the people of God have assumed in the name of Christianity, but it does so in a positive, solution-minded manner. This is not a cynical book, nor an angry author, but rather a challenging introspective that allows the reader to share some laughs and some prodding humor along the way. Ben Pasley is known for the creation of the popular Enter The Worship Circle series of tribal-folk recordings, but he also enjoys writing and encouraging people as love-pioneers. His leadership in the Kingdom IQ training school is helping believers discover a whole new way of life. He resides at 8,500 feet above sea level in Colorado with his wife, two children, woodworking shop, and fly fishing gear. Foreword by Jack Taylor.

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From the Back Cover:

About the BookSometimes it gets confusing when we try to define the Kingdom of God, the Church, and religious traditions."TOM" is an acronym for the "Traditions Of Men," and the "Goldfish Bowl" is a simple allegory that is here to make sense of it all. There is also a very helpful "How To" section on practicing the Kingdom way of life!About the AuthorBen Pasleyis known for the creation of the popular Enter The Worship Circle series of recordings, but he also enjoys writing and encouraging Christian leadership and love-pioneers. He resides at 8,500 feet above sea level in Colorado with his family, woodworking shop, and fly fishing gear.

About the Author:

Ben Pasley was born in Alabama in 1966. He learned to fly fish on still water, catch crawdad on a string, and navigate kudzu without getting the itchies. Later on he earned a BA Degree from Samford University in 1989 a half a semester late because Hebrew was written backwards and he made his second semester Philosophy professor mad. Nothing of any real consequence happened in his life until he met Robin Weisinger and spent all his money and skills to change her name to Robin Pasley in 1994. They live together still in Woodland Park, CO with their two boys, Zane and Xander.
Here is a bullet point list of biographical and newsworthy notes:

In 1993 Ben formed the beginnings of the Blue Renaissance Creative Group, a non-profit organization that fused faith and art to create many tours, albums, literary works, and creative presentations from that day until now.
From 1994 until 2000 Ben And Robin performed over 125 outreach concerts a year as the band, 100 Portraitswhich was Ben and Robin's first musical identity...and focused on state university campus touring in the 1990's.
Enter The Worship Circle a worship music series, is one of their most well known musical products, and was first released in 1999 because Ben and Robin wanted to create a worship album for university student culture.
Enter The Worship Circle has now sold well over 100,000 units of the, now, 8 album collection. (Two new albums were released in 2007.) Follow them on YouTube!
Ben Pasley's first book was published by Relevant Media in 2001 entitled Enter The Worship Circle and sold almost 8,000 copies before it was returned to Ben Pasley for independent publishing.
Ben hosts his own site, featuring articles and events at benpasley.com! Subscribe to his email delivery streams for encouragements and teachings.

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