Radiant Church, Tara Beth Leach
Radiant Church, Tara Beth Leach
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Radiant Church
Restoring the Credibility of Our Witness

Author: Tara Beth Leach

Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/16/2021


Synopsis

Something is not right. The witness of the church in North America is eroding.

Many Christians are alarmed by the decline in church attendance and seek a culprit. Too often, we point the finger away from the church, make culture the enemy, and build walls between us and others. But our antagonism and enemy-making are toxins that further eat away at our witness. Is there a better way?

Tara Beth Leach could easily be one of those millennials giving up on the church. Instead, she is a pastor who loves the church and is paradoxically hopeful for its future. In an era where the church has lost much of its credibility, Leach casts a radiant vision for Christians to rediscover a robust, attractive witness.

We need to name the toxic soil we've grown in, repent for past wrongs, and lean into a better way to become the church that Jesus proclaimed we would be. Leach casts down idolatrous false images of God to recover a winsome picture of a kingdom of abundance and goodness. We can be sustained by practices that will tune our hearts to God's and form us into the radiant communities God intends for us and those around us.

About Tara Beth Leach

Tara Beth Leach is associate pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook, Illinois. She formerly served as senior pastor at First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena ("PazNaz") in Pasadena, California. A regular writer for Missio Alliance, she is also the author of Emboldened and Radiant Church.


Reviews

When I learned that Tara Beth had a new book coming out, I reached out to the publisher for an Advanced Review Copy. I'm so glad I did, the book certainly did not disappoint. In Radiant Church, Tara Beth unpacks a host of problems plaguing the church, including the empire-worship that often takes pla......more

Goodreads review by Hilary

In this book, author Tara Beth Leach addresses the current problems within the Evangelical church in America (white Christian nationalism, patriarchy, consumerism and building/program-centric focus) and encourages the church to rediscover its primary calling to be followers of Jesus who are working......more

Goodreads review by Vicki

Tara Beth Leach has something to say to the American Church - something we desperately need to hear. The passion and love Tara Beth has for the Church oozes from every page. There has been much ink spilled in recent years about the demise of the Western Church - lots of talk about the “nones” and “d......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

Radiant Church teaches us to look at the American Church through a critical but loving lens, facing reality honestly rather than buying into the popular narrative of western Evangelical triumphalism. Most works on a subject like this take either of two common approaches: 1) Christianity is beautiful......more

Goodreads review by Janae

This book was written for such a time as this! Tara Beth Leach offers a prophetic word for the church. This book is for anyone with a love and passion for the future of the church in America.......more