What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church?: A Visual Guide to Becoming the Community Jesus Intended

Written by Skye Jethani

Narrated by Brian Conover

Researchers have uncovered the following three trends: First, distrust of institutions, including the church, is at an all-time high. Second, young people raised in the church are leaving at alarming rates and not returning. Third, loneliness and social isolation are at pandemic levels. What’s the connection? It appears that an entire generation is starving for the very thing the church is called to provide but has chosen to look for it elsewhere. Why is this happening? Following the model set by What If Jesus Was Serious?—short readings and engaging illustrations—What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church? looks at what the Bible really says about the church, its purpose, and the impact of its modern captivity to consumer values. Rather than an event, a building, or an institution, the New Testament calls the church to be a community living in communion with God and one another for the sake of the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Release date: Oct 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9780802430366

Skye Jethani

Skye Jethani (www.skyejethani.com) is the managing editor of Leadership journal, a magazine and online resource published by Christianity Today International. He also serves as a teaching pastor at Blanchard Alliance Church in Wheaton, Illinois.

Reviews for What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church?

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Really makes you think over your past thinking of the church, and what is made to do. Has given me lots of things to ponder over, and lots of things to question and work on in my life. What an incredible book!