I Don't Go to Church: (I Am the Church) (Hardback or Cased Book)

Maybe you're a part of the great majority of people in the world who don't go to church. Or maybe you used to go to church and you don't go anymore. You may even be the person who is going to church and walking away every time feeling worse than when you came, or wondering what the point was.

But what if your idea of church is flawed? What if the thing you're staying away from, the thing you decided to leave, or any collection of bad experiences is actually a false impression of what Jesus and his church are really all about? And what if you realized that although Jesus started this thing called the church and is in charge of it, Jesus never actually said that you are supposed to go to church?

Jesus never said to go to church. But he did say that he would build his church, and he did say that his followers would be his church. That's right: Jesus invites you to follow him and to never go to church again.

So if you're open to giving church another chance or seeing it for what Jesus always intended for it to be, then prepare to discover within these pages what you may have been missing-but looking for-all along.

Dave Bish is a husband, father of four, pastor, teacher, and church planter. In the summer of 1995 Dave moved his family to a small town in central Pennsylvania to, as he likes to say, "Do church differently" That's when Tri-County Church was born, and that's where, for the last eighteen years, the family and staff of Tri-County Church have been living out the desire to follow Jesus and fulfill the mission of his kingdom here on earth. Dave also has a bachelor of science degree in Education. He taught public middle school for four years and then earned a master of divinity degree in 1990 from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He was a youth pastor for five years in the church he grew up in and has served as the lead and founding pastor of Tri-County Church in DuBois, Pennsylvania, since 1995. It is from this context and his other life experiences that Dave shares the vision and strategy found in this book. His hope is that whether you're particularly religions or not, you will find the idea of not going to church anymore, but instead being the church, refreshing and inspiring.