It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives
Tod Bolsinger challenges Christians to rediscover the essential
nature of God as a Triune community. By doing so, says Bolsinger,
the church will recover its vitality as a truly life-transforming
communion.
Focusing on daily living issues, the book engages writers including
John Calvin and Richard Foster. Reclaiming a true trinitarian
practical theology will allow Christians to reawaken and nourish a
spirituality that is communal, not merely consumerist or
individualistic. It will create Christian communities in which God
transforms believers together into the likeness of Christ.
It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian is designed for
pastors, worship leaders, evangelists, and other church
leaders.
Top Highlights
“a crucial difference between a crowd and a community” (source)
“But while crowds come and go, true and enduring Christian community is a foretaste of heaven, the essence of the discipleship, the enduring witness to an unbelieving world, and an absolute necessity for human transformation.” (source)
“That’s because real godly change—real sanctification—requires a people to live together in covenantal relationships, and we’re less inclined to that than any generation in human history.” (source)
“main goal is to build a big crowd, and community is tacked onto the bargain” (source)
“‘do-it-yourself’ religion that reinforced ‘individualized faith” (source)
Product Details
- Title : It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives
- Author: Bolsinger, Tod E.
- Publisher: Brazos Press
- Publication Date: 2004
- ISBN: 9781585585229
Tod E. Bolsinger is senior pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, California, where he lives with his wife and two children.