The Church Of Irresistible Influence

Now available in paperback. The inspiring story of how a church showed God's love to a dying culture by building bridges to its neighborhood, community, and world.

A thermometer follows the dictates of its environment, but a thermostat dictates the conditions of its surroundings. In this book, Gregory Lan Ijiwola, explores the Christian call to be like thermostats to the world, exerting godly influence on it, rather than being influenced by it. No matter your background, vocation or location, God's plan is for you to be a person of influence; someone whose life greatly impacts others, creating positive changes around you, making a notable difference. Through fascinating examples, amusing personal anecdotes, and refreshing biblical insights, Gregory analyzes the Church's ongoing battle with irrelevance. He unravels the causes of the growing trend of Christian insignificance in the secular world and offers believers the weapons needed to win this battle. You will learn, What true influence is Why it is essential for you to be a person of influence How to multiply the influence of God in and through your life How to tap into your unique calling, placement and potentials in God to make a difference in the world, and much more. Irresistible Influence will motivate you, empowering you to rise as a formidable force of influence for the Kingdom of God. You will be empowered to be one of the change agents your family, city, nation and generation may have been waiting for. If you have ever dreamed of making a mark on your world like some of the people you read about and admire, then this book is the right one to start you off on that journey."

A fresh look at the earliest Christian movement reveals what made the new faith so compelling...and what we need to change today to make it so again. Once upon a time there was a version of the Christian faith that was practically irresistible. After all, what could be more so than the gospel that Jesus ushered in? Why, then, isn't it the same with Christianity today? Author and pastor Andy Stanley is deeply concerned with the present-day church and its future. He believes that many of the solutions to our issues can be found by investigating our roots. In Irresistible, Andy chronicles what made the early Jesus Movement so compelling, resilient, and irresistible by answering these questions: What did first-century Christians know that we don't—about God's Word, about their lives, about love? What did they do that we're not doing? What makes Christianity so resistible in today's culture? What needs to change in order to repeat the growth our faith had at its beginning? Many people who leave or disparage the faith cite reasons that have less to do with Jesus than with the conduct of his followers. It's time to hit pause and consider the faith modeled by our first-century brothers and sisters who had no official Bible, no status, and little chance of survival. It's time to embrace the version of faith that initiated—against all human odds—a chain of events resulting in the most significant and extensive cultural transformation the world has ever seen. This is a version of Christianity we must remember and re-embrace if we want to be salt and light in an increasingly savorless and dark world.

This book assists Christians in fulfilling the Great Commission by presenting a plan that will enable them to share the gospel in the cities of America and the world. Dennison’s strategy for city reaching is both spiritual and practical in leading the Church to a higher level of missionary service.

The national revival in the biblical Nineveh was short-lived. Since the book of Acts, the last 2000 years have seen a few fingerprints in most of the places where God has poured out revival. Why is it that when we go to those places that God moved, they are worse than they were before the move of God? Is that what God intended? Some thing is radically wrong. Do we really need revival? Is that what we are praying for? Can desperation and hunger move or fast-forward the timing of God. Why did they run out of wine in the middle of that wedding in Cana and what does that look like today? Why did Mary tell Jesus that they were out of wine and why did Jesus choose a different method in making the new wine? Are we at a tipping point of a sustainable transforming revival (that has no fingerprint of man), like the world has never seen? Are we at a juxtaposition of another Great Spiritual Awakening? Thirsty, Give Me Bold, Fresh Wine answers all these questions and more

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