Author Barnabas Piper states in the first chapter of his book:
“We are looking for something personal, something deeply meaningful, something with which we can identify. And this book is an invitation to find that in the church, because God wants us to …Part of God’s perfect strategy is offering hurting, tired, worn out, needy sinners like you and me a place to belong in … A place in which to encounter the profound, transformative, healing, restoring grace of Jesus Christ.”
This book explores how you can help to create a church where everybody feels at home: a place where fellow believers build genuine, honest, meaningful Christian relationships and enjoy ...deep fellowship as a community of believers.
Readers will come to see that belonging to a church is a good gift from God, the outworking of our identity as brothers and sisters in Christ, and worth your time, love, and commitment.
If you are a pastor looking to encourage your church members to treasure their church family and play their part in making it a place where everyone feels they belong, this is the resource for you.
This book is part of the Love Your Church series, a collection of thoughtful and practical books that will inspire every church member with a biblical vision of what it means to be a local community of God’s family. Church members can explore together what it means to belong, to welcome, to gather, to care, to serve and to honour one another, and to witness and send people out to spread the gospel.
(Review written for 'Belong')
Belong is a really helpful resource which we've used in two different settings within the last year; firstly in an established church and then as part of a new church plant. Piper (Barnabas) gently persuades and encourages a scriptural understanding of church belonging that is so key to embrace and be reminded of for both new and old churches. The online questions to go alongside the book are well worth using and adapting according to your church situation. The chapters are long enough to chew over and yet short enough to read from one small group meeting to the next.
(Review written for 'Belong')
We are using this in our church connect groups and it has been a good tool for improving our people love and commitment to each other.
(Review written for 'Belong')
This book discusses what many churches need: gospel community. Very thankful for this book and I look forward to studying it with my church.
