Reclaiming Glory: Creating a Gospel Legacy throughout North America
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
What is there about a dying church that brings glory to God? Mark Clifton's convicting answer is "Nothing."
Because a local church is intended to represent the work of God in a community, when that church "loses it saltiness," not only is God's work pictured as irrelevant in that community, but also dishonor and disrepute may well become associated with God's name as a result.
In Reclaiming Glory, Clifton draws not only upon his own burden for revitalizing dying churches but also upon years of church replanting experience to offer passionate counsel for how to breathe new life into a dying church . . . all for the glory of the God who is building his church upon the immovable rock of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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“That is the heartbeat of what it means to replant a church. It is the process of ensuring a continued legacy for the thousands of near-death churches throughout North America by leading them to reengage with the missions and ministry that laid the foundation of the church.” (Page 15)
“Every week the declining churches in their midst simply reinforced the tired narrative that most people believed: Church is an irrelevant place where people whose lives are nothing like mine do things that have no connection to how I live my life.” (Page 10)
“If you want your church to become a congregation that makes disciples that make disciples, you have to get your people into discipling relationships with one another.” (Page 74)
“The local church is a unique institution in the world where God’s glory is on display to the community” (Page 16)
“You have likely heard the depressing stats. Southern Baptists alone lose more than nine hundred churches every year. Ninety percent of those churches are in our cities. Seven out of ten churches are either plateaued or declining. They haven’t seen a ‘winning season’ in more years than they can count.” (Page 3)
- Title: Reclaiming Glory: Revitalizing Dying Churches: Creating a Gospel Legacy throughout North America
- Author: Mark Clifton
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 176
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Church growth; Church renewal; Leadership
- ISBNs: 9781087794761, 9781433643231, 9781433643224, 1433643235, 1433643227, 1087794765
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433643231
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T21:00:28Z