Church as God Designed It

Is It Time to Reform the Western Church Model?

De: Dwight Smith

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The church today is in disarray. What happened to the vitality of an organic body of people on journey with God the Spirit? We had it, but a flood of ideas and slick campaigns on how to organize and grow church life—creating bigger and better programs, controlling service lengths, adding smoke and dark lights—has led to churches that are often loose in biblical convictions, lazy in morals, and ineffective in the redemptive task Jesus left us to carry out until He returns. What went wrong, and how do we fix it?The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy in a day similar to ours, giving him a proscription for the Ephesian church. The instructions apply to us as well. Paul’s book of 1 Timothy helps us call believers to the direction implied by the new birth and the residency of the Holy Spirit within us. Church as God Designed It plumbs the issues Paul addressed in 1 Timothy to see what they mean for local Western churches today. What would happen if Western church leaders focused less on “improvements” that make us more like the world and wholeheartedly embraced the call of God to lead the church well and in the fullness of God’s plan and purpose? Dwight Smith unfolds Paul’s message and shows us how to apply it today so that we will become the church made not by man but by God.