What Is the Church and Why Does It Exist? The Jesus Way: Small Books of Radical Faith

by David Fitch

Publisher:

Herald Press

, 2021

Overview

What is the church? And why does it exist? These are essential questions for those who seek to follow Jesus in community.

David Fitch delves into the origins of the church, exploring the identity and calling of the body of Christ in scripture and church history. Learn about the Christian practices that shape the church and how our understandings of church might change in light of the life of the church through the centuries. At a time when the church in the US is losing credibility and cultural privilege, Fitch calls us to embrace historic Anabaptism as a model for thriving as God’s people in our own time and place.

The Jesus Way: Small Books of Radical Faith delve into big questions about God’s work in the world. These concise, practical books are deeply rooted in Anabaptist theology. Crafted by a diverse community of internationally renowned scholars, pastors, and practitioners, The Jesus Way series helps readers deepen their faith in Christ and enliven their witness.
 

Product Details

• Title: What Is the Church and Why Does It Exist?
• Author: David Fitch
• Series: The Jesus Way: Small Books of Radical Faith
• Publisher: Herald Press
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781513806198, 9781513805702, 1513805703, 151380619X
• Resource ID: LLS:9781513806198
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T16:48:55Z

About David Fitch

David Fitch is the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community—an emerging church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He is the co-founder of Up/Rooted, an emergent cohort that gathers leaders and thinkers to engage issues of the emerging church and the post-modern context. Up/rooted now has chapters all over the Chicago area. He has been a speaker and presenter at “emerging church” gatherings, the Ekklesia Project, as well as academic and denominational gatherings on the issues of church, postmodernity and culture. He is the author of numerous articles on church, culture and theological ethics in journals as diverse as the Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Discernment, Pastoral Psychology and the Journal of Christian Education. He is the author of The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from American Business, Para-Church Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism and Other Modern Maladies (Baker Books, 2005).