Adventures in Churchland, Dan Kimball
Adventures in Churchland, Dan Kimball
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Adventures in Churchland
Finding Jesus in the Mess of Organized Religion

Author: Dan Kimball, Foreword by Wanda Jackson, Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Narrator: Adam Black

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 06/05/2012


Synopsis

Would Jesus Attend Church Today?

Among the top ten trends that are changing American life, Time magazine recently listed a rising dissatisfaction with organized religion. Though many people today like Jesus, they are growing tired of traditional religious institutions. Even those who follow Jesus aren't so sure they always like what Christianity and the church represent.

For many years, Dan Kimball would have agreed, until an encounter with a small group of Jesus followers started him on a journey that challenged him to rethink everything he had ever assumed about the church.  In Adventures in Churchland, Dan invites you to join him as he uncovers what the Bible really says about the church and reminds us that it’s more than just buildings and institutions, it’s a beautiful mess of broken people learning to follow Jesus together. As you journey with Dan, you’ll begin to see the church as Jesus intended it to be: a community of forgiven misfits coming together to serve the world around them with passion, creativity, innovation, and grace.
"If you don’t like the church, or if you’re thinking about leaving, please read this book first. Dan’s stories will make you laugh, make you think, and make you appreciate the church like never before." – Mark Batterson, author of The Circle Maker“As a non-Christian, I was inspired and moved, and have been enthusiastically recommending it to my friends. This is a book for everybody." – Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of MAKE, founder of boingboing.net
"Dan encourages us to break through the tension and messiness that church communities inevitably encounter to experience the beauty of being in community and sharing God's infinite love with others." – Zach Lind, drummer, Jimmy Eat World

"I am so glad that my friend Dan has written this book, because there is a lot of confusion out there about Jesus and the church." – Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 

About Dan Kimball

Dan Kimball is the author of several books on leadership, church, and culture. He is on staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California. He  also is on faculty with Western Seminary and leads the ReGeneration Project which is encouraging theology and mission to be part of younger generations lives and churches. He enjoys comic art, Ford Mustangs, and punk and rockabilly music. His passion is to see the church and Christians follow and represent Jesus in the world with love, intelligence, and creativity.


Reviews

As a younger person, Dan Kimball found himself strangely drawn to the person of Jesus Christ but at the same time had a strong distaste for organized religion. His sporadic encounters with evangelical Christians continued to accentuate these negative opinions, but at the same time left him contempla......more

Goodreads review by Bob

I was disappointed by this book after Dan's other book "They Like Jesus but not the Church." I wish he would have kept more with his experiences and less with the "basics of faith". At times Dan seemed to force basic teachings as if almost an evangelistic ploy. It took away from some of the great pe......more

Goodreads review by Stina

As a person who has a love/hate relationship with The Church and its Christians, I was attracted to the idea that the author Dan Kimball was going to address some of the issues and experiences that turn many of us away. But I didn't expect that it was going to be such a FUNNY and ENJOYABLE read as w......more

Goodreads review by Nini

Finally, making sense of the mess of organized religion doesn't seem so overwhelming and pointless! This book is SO good. I laughed (OUT LOUD - quite a few times), I cried, I was CHALLENGED and INSPIRED. Dan Kimball did a fantastic job sharing his own journey through the quirky-ness of 'Churchland' a......more