Welcome To Dinner Church

Author : Verlon Fosner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628244229
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Dinner, Church written by Verlon Fosner and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church was not always done the way we do it. There was a time when Christians gathered around tables, included the strangers and the poor, ate together, and talked about Jesus. This form of church occurred mostly during the first three hundred years of Christianity, and was highly effective in bringing lost people to Jesus. While the church of today is very meaningful to Christ-followers, it is failing to help our lost neighbors find their way to the Savior. That is no small concern for Jesus' churches, all of which are called to be in the rescue business. This little book examines what it might be like for a traditional church to plant a Dinner Church in a nearby hurting neighborhood.

Author : Verlon Fosner
Publisher : Seedbed
ISBN 13 : 9781628244205
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Dinner, Church written by Verlon Fosner and published by Seedbed. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church was not always done the way we do it. There was a time when Christians gathered around tables, included the strangers and the poor, ate together, and talked about Jesus. This form of church occurred mostly during the first three hundred years of Christianity, and was highly effective in bringing lost people to Jesus. While the church of today is very meaningful to Christ-followers, it is failing to help our lost neighbors find their way to the Savior. That is no small concern for Jesus' churches, all of which are called to be in the rescue business. This little book examines what it might be like for a traditional church to plant a Dinner Church in a nearby hurting neighborhood.

Author : Verlon Fosner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628243888
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinner Church written by Verlon Fosner and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christianity is the greatest rescue project the world has ever seen, yet many churches across America are shrinking instead of growing. After spending 18 years as a pastor in highly secularized Seattle, Verlon Fosner began to realize that the church had a sociological problem. While outreach efforts to find new wine were genuine, the church's old wineskin was brittle and leaking. In other words, the traditional ways of doing church were not capable of housing a new wine that would be necessary to compel a secular culture to Jesus. Somewhere in this struggle, Fosner and his leadership team began to consider the way church as done during the first three centuries, and the sociological implications of doing church around dinner tables. Inviting someone to a dinner with Jesus is a very different thing that inviting them to a worship/teaching event on a Sunday morning at a religious campus. In Dinner Church: Building Bridges by Breaking Bread, Verlon Fosner unveils how the ancient dinner church was rebirth in his Seattle community and how that vision changed his congregation forever. These pages also offer a compelling case for why many churches would do well to pause and see the pockets of lost people within the shadow of their steeples, and consider how a Jesus dinner table might open up a door to heaven for those neighbors. Revelation 3:20 makes it clear that Jesus still wants to have dinner with sinners. That likely means he wants his church to set the table."--Publisher.

Author : Verlon Fosner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628243925
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dinner Church Handbook written by Verlon Fosner and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With church attendance nationwide declining at an alarming rate, it's increasingly clear that something must change. Instead of being drawn to the church steeple, it seems that today's culture is actually repelled by it. What if we went back to the form of church the apostles used? What if we recovered Jesus' dinner table theology for the modern church? In this accompaniment to Dinner Church series, Verlon Foster begins by evaluating the rich scriptural history of the Dinner Church, and gradually works his way into the practical questions a leader might have: Where to plant? How long will it take to prepare? How much will it cost? What about the food? Is there a service order or liturgy? Who will come? How can one grow toward Christlikeness in this church? The need for this handbook grows by leaps and bounds once a church starts to notice a particular neighborhood in their town--really notice it. It's when the heart of the church swells in compassion for its neighbors who may never darken the doorway of a traditional church building that dinner churches are born."--Publisher.

Author : Tim Chester
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433521431
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Meal with Jesus written by Tim Chester and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meals have always been important across societies and cultures, a time for friends and families to come together. An important part of relationships, meals are vital to our social health. Author Tim Chester sums it up: "Food connects." Chester argues that meals are also deeply theological—an important part of Christian fellowship and mission. He observes that the book of Luke is full of stories of Jesus at meals. These accounts lay out biblical principles. Chester notes, "The meals of Jesus represent something bigger." Six chapters in A Meal with Jesus show how they enact grace, community, hope, mission, salvation, and promise. Moving from biblical times to the modern world, Chester applies biblical truth to challenge our contemporary understandings of hospitality. He urges sacrificial giving and loving around the table, helping readers consider how meals can be about serving others and sharing the grace of Christ.

Author : Melissa Pace
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781790574025
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recipes from Open Table Dinner Church written by Melissa Pace and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We bring you this cookbook from Open Table Dinner Church. At Open Table (an Emerging Ministry of the UFMCC and affiliated with the UCC), we gather for a meal that nourishes mind, body, and spirit. Through our stories, song, and prayer we co-create community around the table that we build together. All who gather participate in mind, word, or doodle as we engage in storytelling, spiritual practices, and theological reflection (when we think about faith and God, Goddess, Alice, Gaia, something other, the great unnamable, feel-it-but-can't-say-it, know-it-can't-name-it, divine). This is a church where we connect, contemplate, explore, and put our faith into action. This table is open to all who hunger. All who thirst. All who seek. All who question. All who doubt. All who know. All who desire. This table is open to all. Open to you just exactly as you are for you are whole and you are holy and you are beloved. At this table we serve food that is vegan and gluten, and it is soy, nut, and seed free. This food is prepared without added salt, oil, or sugar (this is called SOS free cooking). We cook this way for three reasons. The first is to ensure that the most common dietary restrictions are accommodated for. The second is to offer healthy, nutritious meals to nourish and fuel all aspects of our beings by way of our physical bodies without adding anything that may tax the digestive system or health. The third is to allow the ingredients to be celebrated and experienced as close to the way they exist in nature as a symbol of our practice of loving ourselves, just as we are, in our authentic state. This book also includes cooking tips and information about the medicinal benefits of some of the ingredients. We invite you to make this book your own; we offer it as a starting place for folks to experiment, adding your own flavors and ingredients to what we offer from our table. A table that is growing and changing and providing deep and meaningful experiences each time we gather. All proceeds from this book will help us to continue this work. We deeply thank you for your generosity and support. Love, The Open Table Dinner Church Community

Author : Ed Stetzer
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805445366
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comeback Churches written by Ed Stetzer and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church growth experts Stetzer and Dodson explain why most congregations plateau and then eventually decline, and they reveal how to revive a body of believers. Readers can learn the importance of lighting a spiritual fire, intentional evangelism, making disciples, forming small groups, and then watch pews fill up again. (Church Life)

Author : Kendall Vanderslice
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467457337
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Will Feast written by Kendall Vanderslice and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the practice of eating together as Christian worship The gospel story is filled with meals. It opens in a garden and ends in a feast. Records of the early church suggest that believers met for worship primarily through eating meals. Over time, though, churches have lost focus on the centrality of food— and with it a powerful tool for unifying Christ’s diverse body. But today a new movement is under way, bringing Christians of every denomination, age, race, and sexual orientation together around dinner tables. Men and women nervous about stepping through church doors are finding God in new ways as they eat together. Kendall Vanderslice shares stories of churches worshiping around the table, introducing readers to the rising contem­porary dinner-church movement. We Will Feast provides vision and inspiration to readers longing to experience community in a real, physical way.

Author : Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1640604219
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinner Party with the Saints written by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a dinner party in heaven. With a charming blend of imagination and historical detail, the bestselling author of 365 Saints invites you to get to know the saints in food and fellowship. Hinting at one of the traditional images of heaven, the Banquet or Marriage Feast of the Lamb (Revelation 9:9), the author gathers sixteen holy souls, enabling you to better understand what they were like on earth. Combining fictional narrative, fascinating biographies, and mouth-watering dinner party recipes, the book offers a resource for families and other groups to celebrate saints spanning the history of the Church, and to better understand the “people behind the halos.” Recipes by classically-trained avid home cook, Celia Murphy.

Author : William H. Willimon
Publisher : Upper Room Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835804295
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunday Dinner written by William H. Willimon and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for those who want to explore the meaning of the gift of the Lord's Supper and its significance for their daily lives as Christians. Traditional concepts of the Lord's Supper (Holy Communion) are shared, revealing new dimensions. Reading this book may change your views about Communion. Written for laypersons, clergy, and seminary students, this book also includes a group study guide for each chapter.