What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission?
Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expression of the church has been quietly growing. It's something of an experiment, but over the last ten years the church has been validating its ideas with sustained and growing results. At The Underground, being the church is not focused around a weekly gathering or church programs. It's about empowering individuals to respond to God's call to ministry and mission, especially to the poor and disadvantaged in our midst.
While many churches talk about discerning calling and engaging in mission, very few are structured to make this their ministry focus. Underground Church is a new vision for the church rooted in its biblical mission to share the love of God and serve the poor. Sanders explores how to make structural changes, how to think about leadership, how to fund ministries, and how to truly engage people in God's mission. Filled with creative insights, he explains what it means to center the mission of the church around the callings of individuals to outward ministry - whether that involves leading Bible studies in the workplace, feeding the homeless, or working to free women and children from sex trafficking.
This book will both tell the inspiring story of a church that is rethinking what church looks like while also outlining and uncovering the principles that transfer for every church and Christian community that hopes for more. It's the true story of a 10-year experiment that unpacks the possibilities of a church structured and streamlined for mission.

Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form (Exponential Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Sanders, Brian

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

She's on a mission to wake up the world. &#65279;&#65279;For 11-year-old Suzy Schuster, life feels like a bad dream. The polluted police state she lives in is distressing enough. But, to make matters worse, her parents went missing a few years ago under mysterious circumstances. Then, one fateful day, she encounters a curious group of youths known as the Pajama Gang. Displaying cool pajamas and even cooler superpowers, they teach Suzy that what feels like a bad dream is actually far worse: the entire world has fallen asleep and is unknowingly trapped in the nightmare of a demon called Phantos.Armed with flying pillows and magic sand, Suzy and her new friends must fight back against Phantos as they search for the gateway back to Reality. If they succeed, Suzy just might find her parents on the other side... READ this book if you like: <ul><li>Cozy pajamas</li><li>Saving the world in your cozy pajamas</li><li>Philosophical musings</li><li>Blue lynxes in orange bathrobes that dish out philosophical musings</li><li>False realities</li><li>Flying pillows</li><li>Dystopian stories with upbeat endings</li></ul>

Snoozy Suzy: And the Curse of the Twilight People

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Brian Sanders

A three-dimensional, two-story Edwardian doll house includes a family of six press-out dolls and such exquisite details as ceiling murals, decorative rugs, period paintings, and dormer windows.

Edwardian Doll House: A Three-Dimensional Book

Sanders, Lizzie

History

Viking Juvenile

A Three-Dimensional EDWARDIAN DOLL HOUSE. Book opens to a two-story, eight-room doll house complete with pop-up furniture and a press-out paper doll family. Tie back the strings and the doll house stands on ite own.

Edwardian Dollhouse

Viking Childrens Books

<div> What if you don't have a calling from God . . . but callings? Often we think of our calling as a singular moment of divine purpose revealed to us in young adulthood and static for the rest of our lives. But consider how God usually works. He created the cosmos in six successive days. Might He not also have six seasons of calling for the lives of His people? In The 6 Seasons of Calling, Brian Sanders helps you view your calling as something ongoing and dynamic. Because your calling is rooted in your relationship with God and your perception of His voice, it isn't a static or one-time experience. Of course, your calling doesn't constantly shift and change. Yet God has ordained six basic seasons as your life unfolds: <ul> <li>Childhood - the season of bonding</li> <li>Adolescence - the season of learning</li> <li>Early Career - the season of serving</li> <li>Mid-Career - the season of creating</li> <li>Late Career - the season of giving</li> <li>Transition - the season of leaving</li> </ul> Instead of wandering aimlessly through life, let the six seasons of calling provide structure for your development. Locate yourself in this sequence. Live mindfully in each season. Learn from its lessons. Look for what might be next. And remember . . . only at the end of your life will you see why each season was valuable and not to be rushed. </div>

The 6 Seasons of Calling: Discovering Your Purpose in Each Stage of Life

Moody Publishers

Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine. And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. In either case, Brian Sanders has a word for you. Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options: 
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<li>Stay. Remain in your church with the blessing of Christ and in the power of his great vision for the church to come.</li>
<li>Take the path of revolutionary leaving. Move purposefully, seeking the kingdom of God that is beyond institutions.</li>
</ul> Whether Sunday mornings find you alone in a one-bedroom apartment or isolated in a church of thousands, Brian reminds you to keep listening for God's call. Reform the church that is Christ's. Be it from the inside out, or the outside in.

Life After Church: God's Call to Disillusioned Christians

How do the life of Jesus Christ and our theological perspective on that life affect the way we work among the poor? What image best mobilizes and empowers the poor to be participants in their own liberation? If Jesus is the model for the Christian life, indeed for idealized humanity, then how should that influence the way we offer the good news of the cross to the materially and spiritually poor? Simply put, valid theology leads to Christ. valid Christology leads to mission. And valid missiology leads us to the poor.

Christology, Missiology and the Poor: Exploring the Connection Between Knowing Jesus and Doing Mission

Underground Media

Different makes a compelling argument that passionate love for God and the world he came to save will produce disciples who stand with, but not as, the lost world. We can walk alongside people and still stand out from them. Disciples cannot call other disciples to repentance and change if they are not themselves changed and changing. Churches cannot serve their divine purpose to call cities and systems to redemption and change if they are not themselves redeemed and redemptive.

Different: Reimagining holiness for a wandering church in a watching world.

Patz, Mike

When Jesus thought about the church, what did he imagine? Most churches are small, and rightly so. With power being redistributed in our time, networks of smaller enterprises are both growing and thriving. The yearning for participation and empowerment has us all looking for versions of church that make room for everyone. Perhaps, after all our hand wringing and insecurity about the size of our churches, we have missed the point. Microchurches can be strong, beautiful, accessible and potent portraits of just what Jesus had in mind, if not for all time, at least for ours. This book is a guide to understanding, appreciating and if you are up for it, starting a micro church.

Microchurches: A Smaller Way

Independently published

The Falcon’s Shadow

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

iUniverse

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