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Title: Rediscovering Church ISBN: 0-310-21927-2 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 21 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Moto Subtheme
Comment: One of his correspnding strengths, which can be seen in this book (co-authored by his wife, which apparently keeps him down to Earth), is to reveal an occasional weakness,or failure.
The failure he reveals in this book relates to his experience with motocross, which he used to do on the Willow Creek church property in Barrington, Illinois. He says in one part of the book that he once came down off a jump and had to be hospitalized due to bruising some internal organs.
We don't know if the bike was a real motocrosser, or what kind of equipment he may have been wearing. But it's a refreshing story which contrasts with the gleaming, hyper-expensive sport of Great Lakes sailboat racing with his irascible crew who must obey a code of silence during competition.
The book also chronicles the building of Willow Creek church. But since Willow Creek can be interpreted as an extension of a successful youth group, pay attention to the young guy crashing his dirt bike coming off a jump. There could be a little of us all in that.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is Church
Comment: I have been a student of the church for the past eight years, and a few years ago I started reading Acts looking for principles to guide the church into the 21st Century. Then I read 'Rediscovering Church,' and I was amazed by the parallels. Much attention has been given to the "Seeker Philosophy" of Willow Creek, yet this book points to the heart of their growth!
Rating: 2
Summary: Honest Informative Confession of their Congregation
Comment: This work is good reading for all interested in current American Christian church scene, for Willow Creek is major player.
Segmented into two sections, first written by wife who chronicles the history and development of Willow Creek followed by Bill's second part which describes his philosophy, theology and leadership principles.
This is honest, humbly written, with passion for reaching the lost. Would it be that equally balancing this was a passion for the unabated, unaided truth of God's Word.
Hybels even admits about a period of WC: "In spite of the fact that every message I gave was absolutely biblical, certain themes were stressed to the near exclusion of others. In that era, I inadvertently emphasized grace but not holiness, and as a result, we adopted a kind of careless Christianity."
He admits putting all of his theological eggs into the basket of relational evangelism. While there is nothing wrong with relational evangelism, it is not the primary egg. The power of God to save anyone is the faithful, pure preaching of the gospel, Christ crucified (Romans 1:16-17).
Hybels even said during ABC News Special that he doesn't feel Christianity can be refined down to just one symbol: the cross. Here is where many in the church, including this reviewer, see Hybels and his followers for going off the track. Those who he wishes to engage with the living God will not tolerate the scandal of particularity of the crucified, so he seeks to attract and retain them by other means till they might be drawn into faith.
Classic bait and switch. Switching not working, as Barna and others have documented. This and other Church Growth techniques have not built up Christ's church, only took away sheep and moved them. Further, frustrated members of other sheep pens who compare their numbers with WC and demand similar results.
The ignoring of Biblical apostasy is striking! Cultural relevance to the exclusion of Biblical faithfulness smacks of 2 Timothy 4 predicitions.
You decide-- is WC God pleasing or not? See Galatians 1:6-12.
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Title: Willow Creek Seeker Services: Evaluating a New Way of Doing Church by G. A. Pritchard ISBN: 0801052742 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels ISBN: 031024823X Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Next Generation Leader: Five Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future by Andy Stanley ISBN: 1590520467 Publisher: Multnomah Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Purpose-Driven® Church, The by Rick Warren ISBN: 0310201063 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 27 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Building a Church of Small Groups by Bill Donahue, Russ Robinson ISBN: 0310240352 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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