Dangerous Church: Risking Everything to Reach Everyone

Dangerous churches are willing to put everything on the line for the one thing that matters most: reaching lost people.

Through probing questions and amazing stories of God's grace, John Bishop confronts church leaders to embrace what matters most to the heart of God, whatever the cost.

Most churches naturally gravitate to what is safe and familiar. Church leaders who take risks are bound to fail, and fear drives us to continue in our comfortable, but ineffective patterns. But reaching out to a lost world was never meant to be easy. Jesus promised his followers that they would have trouble in this world. Dangerous churches are churches that are willing to risk everything—comfort, safety, and the security of the familiar—for the sake of the one thing that matters most: reaching out to people who may spend eternity separated from the God who created them.

God wants us to live on the edge of our margins, walking by faith and not simply following scripted methods or programmed patterns. Dangerous Church takes you back to the Book of Acts and reminds church leaders that the heartbeat of the church is not found in agendas or human plans, but in pursuing the mission of God and reaching out to a lost world. Learn what can happen when church leaders abandon their fears and begin to live a dangerous faith.

Dangerous Church is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series.

John Lee Bishop was the Founding and Senior Pastor of Living Hope Church for 20 years, one of the fastest growing churches in America with campuses in the northwestern United States, Hawaii, and New Zealand—until John’s journey took an unimaginable turn that led him into the depths of addiction, crime, and federal prison. Today, he dedicates his life to sharing his story of hardship, restoration, and hope with audiences around the world, and he serves as the Lead Pastor of New Life Friends Church in Vancouver, Washington. He earned a Masters of Arts in Evangelism and Transformational Leadership from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He and his wife, Michelle, have been married for more than 40 years and have three adult children and eight grandchildren.