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Whole life transformation : becoming the change your church needs / Keith Meyer ; foreword by Dallas Willard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780830867455
  • 0830867457
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Whole life transformationDDC classification:
  • 248.8/92 22
LOC classification:
  • BV4011.6 .M49 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The transformation gap -- The double life -- What ministry masks -- Church as business -- Interlude -- Formation by family and friends -- Church as a catching force -- Training for a trust that obeys -- Ruling in kingdom life -- Leaving the results to God.
Summary: Ministry to others and growing the church were the center of Keith Meyer's life. And yet he was arguing with his wife about how many nights a week he was spending in meetings. His temper was short, and he was exhausted. Keith writes: ""I can see that I was pursuing a twisted idea of 'success'--not in the secular forms I regularly preached against, but in the sanctified activism and workaholism sometimes called 'professional ministry.' A growing church, defined mostly by higher attendance at church services, more and more programs, and bigger budgets and buildings were the marks of a successful
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)684491

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The transformation gap -- The double life -- What ministry masks -- Church as business -- Interlude -- Formation by family and friends -- Church as a catching force -- Training for a trust that obeys -- Ruling in kingdom life -- Leaving the results to God.

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Ministry to others and growing the church were the center of Keith Meyer's life. And yet he was arguing with his wife about how many nights a week he was spending in meetings. His temper was short, and he was exhausted. Keith writes: ""I can see that I was pursuing a twisted idea of 'success'--not in the secular forms I regularly preached against, but in the sanctified activism and workaholism sometimes called 'professional ministry.' A growing church, defined mostly by higher attendance at church services, more and more programs, and bigger budgets and buildings were the marks of a successful