How to Be a Christian without Going to Church

The Unofficial Guide to Alternative Forms of Christian Community

by Kelly Bean

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Pub Date Jul 01 2014 | Archive Date Aug 15 2014

Description

God is moving. And just might be somewhere you haven't looked . . . yet.

What happens when the church no longer nurtures, feeds, or challenges you? What do you do when the thought of leaving breaks your heart--but staying hurts more?

Kelly Bean has been there. For anyone seeking genuine Christian community, she offers both heartfelt encouragement and practical suggestions for finding or creating a community of faith that honors God and offers rest, love, and communion with other believers. With true stories of those who have faced these questions and found a way forward, this book shows you how to be faithful in a place where you will truly flourish.

Advance Praise

"Kelly's book is a significant gift, gathering into one place the real-world brilliance and experience of fellow travelers who are asking the question of church."--Wm Paul Young, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shack

"Bean speaks with both the integrity and authenticity of one who has suffered in the course of arriving at her summations and conclusions. I could wish that every Christian today would read this one."--Phyllis Tickle, author of The Age of the Spirit and The Great Emergence

"Kelly Bean is a wise, whimsical, and revolutionary iconoclast. This book will call some to leave what is really not church, and it will call others to reengage the meaning of being a redemptive church."--Dan B. Allender, PhD, professor of counseling psychology and founding president of The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology