What to Focus on When You Feel Held Back by Your Church

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What if it is possible to move through frustrations with church and live vibrantly for Christ? What if there was a way to align our focus so that no matter what church situation we are dealing with, we can respond in loving, Christ-exalting, God-honoring ways? What if we could be free of the bondage of feeling held back? Free to live as Christ calls us to while not needlessly fracturing relationships?

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An Anabaptist New York Times Bestseller

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What would it be like to walk into Walmart and be able to buy a music CD from a girl wearing a head-covering? Or to have an Anabaptist author publish a NY Times Bestseller?

How do we best serve people?

Think of a restaurant. How does the owner of a restaurant best serve his customers? Does he offer only water because that is healthiest and he wants his customers to be healthy? Maybe he’ll throw in Coke because he knows that if you don’t like water you probably like Coke.

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Ugly Ministry

I had my requirements. Often, I realize I still do. Something heroic. I was going to save many souls—win a people group for the Lord and be killed moving on to the next one. Other days it would be a well-known evangelist. Anything that was glorified by others… that’s what I wanted. I never would […]

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