Todd Wagner - Come and See: Everything You Ever Wanted in the One Place You Would Never Look

What people are saying about

I love Todd Wagner, his family, and Watermark Church. With people in large numbers giving up on the church, I love that Todd still loves it. So do I. If you want to have hope for Christs church, dig in to this thoughtful, well-written, and engaging book. Come and see the Jesus who adores his church and can still make her a wonder to behold.

Randy Alcorn, author of Heaven, If God Is Good, and Managing Gods Money

Todd Wagner is one of the most effective Christian leaders Ive ever known. In his new book, Come and See, he extends a gospel-centered invitation to the local church to trust Jesus in every aspect of our lives and worship. This book will equip older saints, brand-new believers, veteran pastors, new church members, and really, all of us.

Russell Moore, president of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

Todd Wagner has a prophetic urgency for the church to rise up to its vocation. How many other churches do you know where people get dis-membered and re-membered every year? If its been a while since youve felt the depth of Gods calling on the churchor on your own lifeyou might want to come and see.

John Ortberg, senior pastor of Menlo Church, Menlo, CA

Todd Wagner has this way of delivering truth with a straightforward, no-nonsense clarity and simplicity that leaves you feeling hit between the eyes and loved at the same time. This book is no exception. Todds love for the Scriptures and, especially, its Author is inspiring and contagious. His trust of the Scriptures and, especially, its Author is downright challenging.

John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview

Todd Wagner has a burning passion to see the local church become all that Jesus has called her to be. With clarity and conviction he paints a picture of believers who actually are the church rather than merely going to church. Come and See will both challenge and inspire you to do your part to help the church be all shes supposed to be.

Larry Osborne, author and pastor of North Coast Church, Vista, CA

In Come and See we have a book that makes much of God, His Church, and His mission that is wrapped in both boldness and grace. This is the kind of book both believers and seekers should be reading.

Matt Chandler, teaching pastor of The Village Church and president of Acts 29 Church Planting Network

Helpful. Accessible. Freeing. Our God is an inviter. Im so grateful for Todd Wagner and the way he shares Gods invitational heart and passion to see people come alive in Jesus. Come and See is a must-read for anyone, at any point, on their journey to Jesusfrom the newborn believer to the seasoned leader looking for a resource to help bring others along. This is a book youll want to keep close by.

Louie Giglio, pastor of Passion City Church, founder of Passion Conferences, and author of Goliath Must Fall

COME AND SEE

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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible, copyright 1960, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ESV are taken from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved; and NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. The author has added italics to Scripture quotations for emphasis.

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ISBN 978-0-7814-1488-3

eISBN 978-1-4347-1114-4

2017 Todd Wagner

Published in association with the literary agency of Wolgemuth & Associates, Inc.

The Team: Tim Peterson, Keith Jones, Amy Konyndyk, Jack Campbell, Susan Murdock

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This book is dedicated to the thousands of friends who, like I do, call Watermark their spiritual home and who so patiently admonish, encourage, and help me more fully experience the Life I have always wanted. You all are living examples of all that I have written about. May the Lord multiply your kind all over the earth. Ultimately however, it is dedicated to and especially an expression of thanks to the kind Father who is forever for me, whose Son was given for me, and whose Spirit provides everything I need to know and make known all that is Life indeed. May you alone be glorified in this work, and may millions more come and see the goodness and grace that exist only in You.

To the first I am temporally and to the latter I am eternally thankful.