Dangerous Church, John Lee Bishop
Dangerous Church, John Lee Bishop
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Dangerous Church
Risking Everything to Reach Everyone

Author: John Lee Bishop

Narrator: Jay Charles

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 04/19/2011

Synopsis

Dangerous churches are willing to put everything on the line for the one thing that matters most: reaching lost people.Through probing questions and amazing stories of God's grace, John Bishop confronts church leaders to embrace what matters most to the heart of God, whatever the cost.Most churches naturally gravitate to what is safe and familiar. Church leaders who take risks are bound to fail, and fear drives us to continue in our comfortable, but ineffective patterns. But reaching out to a lost world was never meant to be easy. Jesus promised his followers that they would have trouble in this world. Dangerous churches are churches that are willing to risk everything—comfort, safety, and the security of the familiar—for the sake of the one thing that matters most: reaching out to people who may spend eternity separated from the God who created them.God wants us to live on the edge of our margins, walking by faith and not simply following scripted methods or programmed patterns. Dangerous Church takes you back to the Book of Acts and reminds church leaders that the heartbeat of the church is not found in agendas or human plans, but in pursuing the mission of God and reaching out to a lost world. Learn what can happen when church leaders abandon their fears and begin to live a dangerous faith.Dangerous Church is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series.

About John Lee Bishop

John Lee Bishop was the Founding and Senior Pastor of Living Hope Church for 20 years, one of the fastest growing churches in America with campuses in the northwestern United States, Hawaii, and New Zealand—until John’s journey took an unimaginable turn that led him into the depths of addiction, crime, and federal prison. Today, he dedicates his life to sharing his story of hardship, restoration, and hope with audiences around the world, and he serves as the Lead Pastor of New Life Friends Church in Vancouver, Washington. He earned a Masters of Arts in Evangelism and Transformational Leadership from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He and his wife, Michelle, have been married for more than 40 years and have three adult children and eight grandchildren.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

I read this book as I am reading the Leadership Network series. This book continues with the methods of how to improve your church and how to grow it without asking if that is Biblical and Gospel centered. This book continues to miss the point of what the local church is designed to do, spread the g......more

Goodreads review by Gail

Living Hope Church, Vancouver, WA: [URL not allowed] Dangerous Church: Risking Everything to Reach Everyone (Leadership Network Innovation Series) by John Bishop, Zondervan Publishers, 2011, 208 Pages, ISBN-13: 978-0310318323, $18.99 “Only God!”—small words of extraordinary meaning desc......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy

John Bishop sounds an alarm for the church. Doing church as usual is not going to accomplish the task of reaching the world for Jesus Christ. Churches must be willing to risk it all – to be dangerous to the status quo. If you don’t want your suppositions challenged, this is not the book for you. If y......more

Goodreads review by Jared

Read it in one day. A few helpful insights, but there are other books I would chose before I loaned this one. At times Bishop seemed to dismiss church strategies only to offer an alternative strategy in the next breath. "As I look over my life as a leader, I see that the most meaningful things in my......more

Goodreads review by Kim

such a good book and a reminder that the one and ONLY mission of the church is "to seek and save the lost"....the only vision and mission statement for churches. This book will not only break your heart, but restart your vision of why we are the church......more

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