Dave Ferguson - BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World

Praise for

B.L.E.S.S.

Inside each of us is a deep longing to make a difference, to leave our mark, to love the people around us in such a way that they see Jesus through us. B.L.E.S.S.: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World takes that deep longing or desire and gives it legsauthentic and practical ways to actually do what you so want to do: love your neighbors and change the world.

Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker and lead pastor of National Community Church

Years ago, we were asking What would Jesus do? In B.L.E.S.S.: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World, Dave and Jon Ferguson show us not just what Jesus would do, but what Jesus did do. If every Jesus follower would simply seek to B.L.E.S.S. their neighbors using these biblical practices, we really could change the worldagain!

Andy Stanley, author, communicator, and founder of North Point Ministries

Dave and Jon Fergusons heart to reach people for Christ is truly inspiring. In their book B.L.E.S.S.: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World, you will learn how to be an effective witness for Christ and how to love people where they are. If you have a heart to reach the lost, this book will motivate you and inspire you to make a difference with five simple ways to bless your neighbor with the love of Christ.

Craig Groeschel, pastor of Life. Church and New York Times bestselling author

Wow. I have literally been searching for a book like this. In B.L.E.S.S., Dave and Jon Ferguson outline a profoundly simple, challenging-but-doable framework for loving your neighbors that isnt gimmicky, weird, or forced. These are also the kinds of practices that will resonate deeply with people in the post-modern, post-Christian era were moving into. I love this book.

Carey Nieuwhof, leadership author and podcaster

I have seen Dave and Jons five B.L.E.S.S. missional practices implemented in hundreds of churches. Better than anything else I have ever experienced, these five simple practices release everyday people into powerful witness wherever they live, work, and play.

Dr. Rick Richardson, professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College and the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center and author of You Found Me

Dave and Jon Ferguson are experts at creating tools that inspire, equip, and empower people to live out their faith. This book is exactly that: equal parts motivation and practical application. Its not an academic theoretical thesis; we dont need any more eloquent ideas! We need exactly what this book offers: tried and true lived experience, honest and relevant practical plans that everyone can use every day to live the great adventure of faith. This book could easily be a handbook for every Christian leader to equip their people to live out their best hopes for a better world.

Danielle Strickland, spiritual leader, Kingdom entrepreneur, and ambassador of fun :-)

Dave and Jon have an unusual knackno, make that an unusual gift: to present important truths about the Gospel and how to live before God in our world in ways that are clear and memorable and doable. Jesus taught us to focus on loving God and loving others, and B.L.E.S.S. is all about loving God and learning over time to nurture a life that loves others: one prayer at a time, one conversation at a time, one meal at a time, one act of service at a time, and living into one story at a time. Each day we can live into B.L.E.S.S. one step at a time. Reading this book is a good first step.

Reverend Canon Dr. Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary

My friends Dave and Jon once again show us an important aspect of what it means to initiate and sustain movement. By embedding common practices that in turn embody the movements DNA throughout the organization, the common practice of B.L.E.S.S. rhythms is their way of ensuring that NewThing Network always remains open to God and to people.

Alan Hirsch, author of numerous books on missional spirituality and leadership and founder of 5Q Collective, Forge Missional Training Network, and more recently the Movement Leaders Collective

The concept of loving our neighbor has never been more foreign to Christians and non-believers alike. We have fallen into a me and mine mentality in which everything and everyone beyond ourselves arent very high on our priority list. Yet Jesus told us to love our neighbor; He said it loud, clear, and often. With B.L.E.S.S., were given the tools to put our love into action so that our neighbors see God through us. With so much unrest and uncertainty in the world, nothing is more welcome right now than a book on how to love as Christ loves.

Albert Tate, co-founder and lead pastor of Fellowship Church

B.L.E.S.S. is practical, powerful, and personal. This book will give you practical ways to love your neighbors, rely on the Spirits power, and personally challenge you to join Jesus in His mission.

Dr. Derwin L. Gray, lead pastor of Transformation Church and author of The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches about Finding True Happiness

B.L.E.S.S. is an ingenious approach to evangelism that is tailor-made for todays world. Hundreds of churches and individuals are already engaging in the B.L.E.S.S. practices to reach the world for Jesus. I cant say it strongly enough: dont miss out on the B.L.E.S.S. movement!

Michelle T. Sanchez, executive minister of Make and Deepen Disciples for the Evangelical Covenant Church

How many of us feel the pressure to share our faith yet are frustrated by the lack of significant and lasting results? Filled with key scriptural insights, helpful research, and practical everyday stories, B.L.E.S.S. will both encourage and equip you to love people well and see them respond authentically to Jesus. Whether you are new to the faith or have been walking with the Lord all your life, this is a book to absorb and pass along to others!

Kadi Cole, leadership consultant, executive coach, and author of Developing Female Leaders (www.kadicole.com)

I believe the B.L.E.S.S. practices are simple enough for a child to understand. Simultaneously, they are robust enough to form ordinary folks into loving, fruitful missionaries who can plant the Gospel in new contexts and see new disciples made. The B.L.E.S.S. practices well-lived eventually lead to renewed communities that function like spiritual families around the person of Jesus. Dave and Jon have given us the best handbook out there to make this practical and possible for all of Gods people. I believe the future of the church rides on this loving missionary engagement being restored to the Church. This book is a needed and significant addition to that movement!

Rob Wegner, co-founder of Kansas City Underground, team leader for NewThing, catalyst for Disciples Made, and author of The Starfish and the Spirit

I first heard about the B.L.E.S.S. practices from Dave and Jon Ferguson several years ago. For someone like me who wants to share the Gospel but doesnt consider themselves to be an evangelist, the practices have been transformative. When I first heard about B.L.E.S.S., I thought, I can do that! And thats why I started sharing these same practices with the churches we serve. The Fergusons have given us a simple way to live out the Great Commission in our daily lives. This book will change how youand your churchengage your mission.