Where do you Start in the Unbinding Series?...

What's your question, "why," or "how" do I share my faith?

 
Evangelism books presume everyone wants to do evangelism, so they tell you how to do it. Six years of national research in nine denominations has demonstrated conclusively that most people would rather get a root canal than think about evangelism!

You can tell people to "go be missional" until the cows come home. But they just won't do it until they want to.

So what's your question, "why," or "how?" If we answer the "WHY share my faith?" question, we'll start wanting to know "HOW can God use me to help people move into faith?"

"WHY" churches can become "HOW" churches if they start with Unbinding the GOSPEL, then do an all-church saturation study with Unbinding Your HEART.

"HOW" churches (or lively small groups within typical "why" churches) find a structure to support their joyful faith sharing with Unbinding Your SOUL.


For a full series description, download the free Series Guide.
Here it is!
Unbinding Your Soul is now available!
Introduction or Continuation for the Unbinding the Gospel Series


Unbinding Your Soul Cover Here it is!  Unbinding Your Soul is the newest book in the Unbinding the Gospel Series by Martha Grace Reese.  It's for small groups that are ready to invite their friends into a four-week experience of Christian community, prayer and real talk about life and faith issues. 

SOUL will be very helpful (and a unique contribution to available resources) for small groups or whole churches that have a "missional" mindset: healthy, outward focused churches, new church starts, and congregations that have done the preliminary, all-church saturation studies of Unbinding the Gospel and Unbinding Your Heart, as well as vibrant small groups within more typical churches. 

Unbinding Your Soul contains 70 stories and quotes from people who have used the first three books in the Series.  In addition to being a practical and accessible evangelistic process for small groups, the stories and quotes in Soul will give pastors considering using any part of the Unbinding Series a research-based understanding of mainline people's trajectories toward developing and sharing their faith, and congregations' transformational shifts.
 
Click here for a free book preview of Unbinding Your Soul.

Order 2 copies per church member--
Each person will invite a friend to try
the Experiment in Prayer & Community
Martha Grace Reese
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Series author Martha Grace Reese embodies the experience of a researcher, corporate attorney, congregational pastor, middle judicatory minister, and church consultant. She serves as president of GraceNet, Inc.

Along with writing all four titles in the Unbinding the Gospel Series, Reese has initiated and given primary leadership to four national Lilly Endowment projects on evangelism and congregational transformation. The Unbinding Gospel Series is grounded in two of these initiatives. The Mainline Evangelism Project studied highly effective evangelism in mainline churches across the country. It included 1,200 interviews. The new Unbinding the Gospel Project will provide coaching support to, and learn along with, 1,000 congregations as they work with the Unbinding Series.
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Unbinding the Gospel Series

Unbinding the Gospel Series Books
STEP ONE
Church Leaders' Study, with personal prayer journal
Unbinding the GOSPEL (red ribbon)

Start with an 8-week test group study with 8-10 "quick adapter" leaders. Includes new, 40-day personal prayer journal. If they like it, add small group GOSPEL studies until 20% of worship attendance has participated in a study.


Support for STEPS ONE and TWO
Pastor's and Leaders' Guide
Unbinding Your CHURCH (green ribbon)

Provides comprehensive instructional and organizational aids, coordinated resources for children and youth, worship, full music plans, and seven sermons.


STEP TWO
All-Church Saturation Study, with personal prayer journal
Unbinding Your HEART (purple ribbon)
After your church leaders have studied and prayed through GOSPEL, they lead the entire congregation (and new friends!) through a six-week study of HEART. All members participate in 40 days of prayer, study, and worship.


For a full series description, download the free Series Guide.