Life in the Father's House: A Member's Guide to the Local Church

Mack, Wayne and David Swavely

ISBN 10: 0875523552 / ISBN 13: 9780875523552

Published by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1996

About this Item

1996. Trade paperback. 211pp. NEAR FINE. Slight blemish to front cover.

Seller Inventory # 2658203

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life in the Father's House: A Member's Guide to the Local Church
• Publisher: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing
• Publication Date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0875523552
• ISBN 13: 9780875523552
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: NEAR FINE
• Seller catalogs:
  • Christian Living

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Synopsis

This book clearly introduces uss to the meaning of church membership, the traits of a good church, and how we are to function as parts of the body. Includes practical discussions of church leadership, male and female roles, confrontation, unity & prayer.

About the Author

Dr. Wayne Mack lives in Pretoria, South Africa, where he serves as director of ACBC Africa and as director and professor of biblical counseling at Strengthening Ministries Training Institute, a certified training center of ACBC International. Previously he served as chairman of the biblical counseling department at The Master s University and Seminary in California. He was a board member of NANC (now the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) and FIRE (Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals). He also counseled and taught at CCEF (Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation) for fifteen years. Wayne and his wife Carol have been married since 1957. They have four adult children and twenty-two grandchildren. He has written twenty-six books on biblical counseling and practical Christian life issues.

Dave Swavely (MDiv) is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He was the founding pastor of Faith Church in Sonoma, California, and planted a church in the Malvern area near Philadelphia. He has also written Decisions, Decisions: How (and How Not) to Make Them. He coauthored, with Harry L. Reeder, From Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church.