The Real Life Evangelism Series
"Martha Grace Reese's 'trilogy' may be the most useful resource for awakening slumbering churches that has come along in a very long time."
George G. Hunter, III
Summary of series as described by Chalice Press (January 1, 2008):
Martha Grace Reese's Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism was published exactly a year ago. Chalice Press is about to receive the fifth printing. Who could have anticipated that a book about evangelism for mainline churches would be a runaway best-seller?
Churches using Unbinding the Gospel with their leaders have asked for more, and here it is: The Real Life Evangelism Series.
Reese has prepared two more books that expand Unbinding the Gospel into a faith and faith-sharing saturation experience for your whole church. Unbinding Your Heart and Unbinding Your Church. They are available today.
Unbinding the Gospel provides the fundamentals for pastors and church leaders. After your leadership is excited about faith and faith sharing, use Unbinding Your Heart (a six-week version of Unbinding the Gospel, with 40 days of individual prayer exercises) as a small group study for your ENTIRE church!
Unbinding Your Church furnishes the tools to tie all of the elements into one, seamless process. Use it from the beginning if you want your studies of Unbinding the Gospel and Unbinding Your Heart to be as effective as they can be. With sermons, fully integrated music and worship resources, organizational forms, lesson plans, prayer coaching, calendars, and more, you can help the Spirit jump-start faith and faith-sharing in your church.
The Real Life Evangelism Series is an integrated set of resources for an all-church, small group, prayer-based study of the basics of the bestseller Unbinding the Gospel.
1. Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism (study for congregational leaders) is available now. Selected by The Christian Century as a featured "Take and Read" book for 2007 and by the Alban Institute as a Featured Book in 2007! The book that inspired the series, Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism is a book for church leaders who want to know the truth about the state of evangelism. Based on a major, four-year study of superb mainline evangelism, funded by the Lilly Endowment, Unbinding the Gospel sparkles with life, practicality and spiritual depth. This book for congregational use has been enthusiastically endorsed by eight heads of denominations as well as by professors of evangelism, leading experts, pastors, and church leaders. Unbinding the Gospel is the church leaders' study-the foundation of the Real Life Evangelism Series, which can culminate in an all-congregation study with individual prayer, small group study, and all-church worship and prayer demensions.
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2. Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing (all-congregational study and personal prayer journal) A brilliant book-witty, engaging, and grounded in research, Unbinding Your Heart is a six-week individual and small-group study for your entire congregation! The culmination of the Real Life Evanglism Series, it will help individuals risk face-to-face encounters with God. Your entire congregation will begin to pray and talk about their faith, and risk sharing their faith beyond church walls. Perfect for Lenten, summer, or fall study, Unbinding Your Heart also includes 40 days of individual prayer exercises coordinated with the book's chapter. Fitting for everyone in your church fron junior high through your most senior seniors! Order one book for each participant. They contain a personal prayer journal.
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3. Unbinding Your Church (Pastor's and Leaders' Guide to the Series). * Church leaders should first study Unbinding the Gospel, then use Unbinding Your Heart for the whole congregation. Unbinding Your Church will help you use both books to maximize results. Pastors are busy people! Unbinding Your Church is designed to help you plan your church's E-vent, while still allowing you time to spend time on what matters-praying, teaching, and working directly with your people. Unbinding Your Church offers:
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