Misfits Welcome: Find Yourself in Jesus and Bring the World Along for the Ride - Hardcover

Barnett, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400206561 ISBN 13: 9781400206568

Publisher: Thomas Nelson, 2014

Synopsis

Being amisfit does not disqualify you from a dynamic life―it prepares you for it.

Matthew Barnett knows a thing or two about misfits.

As founder of the Dream Center in Los Angeles, a twenty-four-hourchurch that ministers to thirty-five thousand hurting people a week, Barnett hasseen a little of everything. Gangsters, addicts, orphans, taggers, cutters, thesick, the suffering, the hopeless―all the misfits of the world come through theDream Center’s doors in search of hope.

But when Barnett first arrived in LA, it was he who felt like the misfit. In Misfits Welcome, he shares the simple, life-changinglesson he has learned from twenty years of ministering to the forgotten: Beinga misfit prepares you to do the work of the Lord.

Have you found yourself ina jarring new era of life? Have your circumstances deviated drastically fromyour plans? Maybe you’ve felt like a misfit all your life, or maybe you’re stillhaunted by yesterday’s mistakes. Whatever the case, rejoice! It is at your mostbroken that you are most ready for what God has in store.

Misfits Welcome is not just about embracingthe misfits around us―it is about embracing the misfits within us and using them for the glory of God.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Barnett is pastor of Angelus Temple and the Dream Center in Los Angeles, CA, the first of 150 Dream Centers launched around the world. He is also the bestselling author of The Church That Never Sleeps and The Cause Within You. Barnett is married with two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1400206561
• ISBN 13: 9781400206568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240