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What if faith was never supposed to be anchored to a building?
In my first two books, I referenced the bleeding-heart campaign of my twenties: to expand our church’s presence beyond the four walls of its building.
And by “reference”, I mean I briefly, BARELY touched on some examples of what that looked like: neighborhood tours, prayer exhibits and so on.
Still somehow, those parts stuck.Whenever I spoke (about any topic–even unrelated ones), I began noticing the same questions surfacing.
How did you do that prayer exhibit you talked about in your book? Or are there directions on how to do a neighborhood tour like you described?
Then I would look down at my shoes and feel a little impractical, mumbling about how I somehow wrote about the experiences without it occurring to me to put the exercises out there too.
So I’d find myself hastily spelling out the steps to carry out the initiatives while church leaders scribbled them down on the back of napkins.
It eventually occurred to me that I should probably get around to writing that book.
To begin to explore that possibility, last year, I offered the two exercises below to churches who wished to try them in their local communities. After a positive response from more than two dozen churches, an entire book-length resource is officially under way (more details soon) and more freebie exercises will be available in the coming months.
If you, your small group (or other group), or church would like to be notified when free exercises become available or if you would like to share what you or your friends are doing to build relationships in your community for this book, please register your name and website below.