Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God’s Family
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
When you look at the church today, what do you see? A corporation with a CEO at the helm? A social organization that does good things for the community? Pastor Ross Parsley believes that neither of those pictures is God’s desire. Instead, God wants His church to function as a family —a group of real people who love each other and care for one another’s needs, no matter how messy. Our culture is dying for the kind of community that only the church can provide— if we are living as God intended: as a family, protecting one another, extending grace, and loving unconditionally. We are not called to be consumers who ask what the church can offer us. We are called to love deeply, fight fairly, and bring hope to a generation of people starving to belong to something greater than themselves. Welcome to the family. You belong here.
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- Presents the church as a family, protecting one another, extending grace, and loving unconditionally.
- Explains that the church members are not called to be consumers who ask what the church can offer.
- Argues that the church is called to love deeply, fight fairly, and bring hope to this generation.
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Beautiful Mess
- Chapter 1: Waking Up
- Chapter 2: Church Shopping
- Chapter 3: Eating Alone at Church
- Chapter 4: The Family Worship Table
- Chapter 5: The David Generation
- Chapter 6: Learning While Leading
- Chapter 7: Botox Believers
- Chapter 8: Love Makes a House a Home
- Chapter 9: The Broken Family
- Chapter 10: The Blended Family
- Appendix 1: A Multigenerational Church Service Model (The Five Cs)
- Appendix 2: Transitioning to a Family Worship Table Format
- Appendix 3: The Four Cs of Mentoring
- Additional Resources
The title of Ross’s carefully thought-out book is catchy, but make no mistake. There’s nothing ‘messy’ about his life, heart, or ministry. The practicality of his leadership is verifiable, his integrity reliable, his credibility certifiable, and his heart for God clearly manifest in his worship ministry and leadership.
—Jack Hayford, chancellor of The King’s University, Los Angeles
When Ross Parsley writes about the local church, we all should read it. He is one of the brightest young pastors in our nation and a true friend in the ministry.
—Brady Boyd, pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Messy Church is a living and divine philosophical underpinning upon which many can stand. It speaks of relationship with God. I hear the Father speaking through Ross into the storm of people rushing to fulfill their calling in the kingdom of God. This is a clear reflection of what God is indeed saying to the church in these days. Basically this: His kingdom is to be based upon relationship, rather than on authority
—Britt Hancock, church planter and founder of Mountain Gateway
- Title: Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God’s Family
- Author: Ross Parsley
- Publisher: David C. Cook
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Church work; Social service › Religious aspects--Christianity; Theology, Practical
- ISBNs: 9781434705068, 9781434799371, 1434705064, 1434799379
- Resource ID: LLS:9781434705068
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-11T21:43:18Z