The Gospel-Centered Community: Study Guide with Leader's Notes - Softcover

Robert H. Thune; Will Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942572891 ISBN 13: 9781942572893

Publisher: New Growth Press, 2016

Synopsis

Grow Authentic, Gospel-Shaped Community

We don't want to be alone. We want to love and be loved; and we know that genuine relationships make our lives rich. But somehow living in community always ends up being harder than we thought.

This nine-lesson small group study helps participants learn how the Holy Spirit shapes diverse people into a Christ-centered community that reflects Jesus to a watching world. Each lesson is self-contained, featuring clear teaching from biblical Scripture, and requires no extra work outside the group setting. The self-explanatory Leader's Guide helps small group leaders with discussion questions and background material that clearly explain and apply the gospel truths from each lesson.

The Gospel-Centered Community has been specifically designed to help bring Christian ethics based on biblical scripture to your community to help everybody live a more fulfilled, gospel-centered, happier life through stronger relationships with our neighbours and with Jesus Christ.

About this title

About the Author

Robert H. Thune, MA (Reformed Theological Seminary), is the lead pastor of Coram Deo, a gospel-centered church he planted in 2005 in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the coauthor of The Gospel-Centered Life and The Gospel-Centered Life for Teens. Bob and his wife Leigh have four children.

Will Walker, MA (Covenant Theological Seminary), is the lead pastor of Providence Church in Austin, TX, a gospel-centered church plant sent out from Coram Deo in 2010. He is the coauthor of The Gospel-Centered Life and The Gospel-Centered Life for Teens. Will and his wife Debbie have two children.

Review

This wise and biblically solid guide cuts beneath platitudes to address how the gospel seizes the heart and transforms our desire to do more than merely exist in community, and instead allows us to participate together in God's merciful kindness.

--Dan B. Allender, PhD, Professor of Counseling Psychology and Founding President, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; author

Using this resource is a no-brainer. It's a practical, biblical, gospel-saturated study that connects the dots between community and the rich Christian life, without losing anyone's attention! Pastors, your people will thank you for using this small group study and you will thank God for the fruit!

--Dave Harvey, Pastor; author of Am I Called? and When Sinners Say I Do

The word community has become such a buzzword in Christian circles that it has almost lost its meaning. Bob and Will bring us out of the land of the buzzword and into the biblical definition and application of what it means to share our lives in the church through the gospel. I highly recommend this book.

--Dr. Darrin Patrick, Founder of The Journey, St. Louis, MO; author of Church Planter: The Man, The Message, The Mission

Edition details

• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1942572891
• ISBN 13: 9781942572893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 144