Reggie McNeal - Kingdom Come: Why We Must Give Up Our Obsession with Fixing the Church—and What We Should Do Instead
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In Kingdom Come, church ministry consultant Reggie McNeal reveals why its crucial to realign the churchs mission with Gods ultimate Kingdom agenda. Youll discover how you can get in onand help leadthe Kingdom movement currently underway.
Join the mission to help the Kingdom break into our hearts . . . and break out into the world.
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Reggie McNeal combines southern charm with gospel disruption. Just like the Jesus he follows, McNeal realigns Gods people with news of the Kingdom. This means everything gets reordered for the sake of Gods determination to make all things new. McNeal continues to point skillfully and faithfully to Gods essentials and priorities, which recast church and life in Kingdom terms.
DR. MARK LABBERTON
President, Fuller Theological Seminary
In Kingdom Come, Reggie McNeal masterfully does what weve come to expect of him: intersecting the path of our past with the reality of the present in order to guide and challenge us toward a new and better direction for the future. Why listen to him? He looks out the window, sees what most of us are too busy to see, and challenges us to new thinking.
TODD WILSON
Cofounder and director, Exponential
Reggie McNeal has written an exuberant, humble, clear, timely, nearly unassailable call-to-arms for Jesus followers to radically shift their focus from Churchianity to the Kingdom of God life as God intends it. We must rediscover our essential task as partners in Gods redemptive mission for the world, or lose our claim to relevance in a culture that is quickly abandoning propositional Christianity that has been hermetically sealed in competitive silos of shrinking market share. Breaking free from brittle, self-imposed constraints, Reggie calls us to join hands and hearts in the common purpose of loving God by loving our neighbors in as many life-honoring ways as health and wholeness reveal.
THE REV. DR. STEPHEN BAUMAN
Christ Church, United Methodist, New York City
Kudos to Reggie McNeal, who is out to return us from Churchianity to Christianity. Read this book to understand that the church is not a club, but a launching pad; that discipleships about a direction (following Jesus), not a doctrine; and that the gospel storys star is God, not your church. May Kingdom Come help us recalibrate so that we may live out the Abrahamic call to bless our cities and the nations.
DR. AMY L. SHERMAN
Author of Kingdom Calling
I appreciated reading Reggie McNeals Kingdom Come. As usual with this author, I felt alternately affirmed, challenged, and occasionally bothered by his candid insights on the church and contemporary culture. It reads like a manifesto for mission, calling for Christian leaders to seriously consider the true Kingdom impact their ministry is having on the community they are called to serve.
BARRY SWANSON
Commissioner of the Eastern Territory, Salvation Army USA
Reggie gives us a compelling thesis on unlocking the congregations social power from within todays churches. He offers a blueprint for building greater Kingdom communities, where congregations find spiritual fulfillment in Kingdom service. Imagine the strength of church foundations built on the rocks of its peoples collaborative spirit and on mission work with and for the community. The Kingdom can come, and never has the need been greater.
SAM OLIVER
Global supply chain production lead, Monsanto
Are we, as the church, supposed to get our hands dirty in the pressing issues of our communities? If the Kingdom is essentially life as God intends for it to be, as Reggie McNeal contends so convincingly in this book, and if we see that our community is not as God intends, then we have our answer. In that light, the church is no longer the end; it is the means.
JIM MORGAN
President, Meet the Need
Our missional coach is back to his meddling business. Reggie makes a biblical case that if congregations are going to be involved in what God is up to, they must move from their predictable church ministry focus to a Kingdom mission focus. Churches may be dying, but Gods Kingdom is thriving. This book has the potential, with the Spirits help, to wake us up from missional amnesia and launch us into vital, life-giving mission.
DR. MARNIE CRUMPLER
Executive pastor, Peachtree Presbyterian Church
Kingdom Come can transform our countrys education system! Reggie McNeal inspires Kingdom growth in our schools and communities with examples of people who are partnering with God and their local schools. Classroom teachers alone cannot meet the educational, health, and social needs of all children. It takes a Kingdom approach. Practical and stirring advice on how to be on mission with God with issues that stir your heart.
MELANIE BARTON
Executive director, South Carolina Education Oversight Committee
One of the first songs my children learned was Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God. I admit I never was sure exactly what that meant until now. Open this book, underline every word, and as Gods people, partner with Him in helping people live a better life abundant life! May His Kingdom come!
JUDY LEE
Executive director, Titus County Cares
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Kingdom Come: Why We Must Give Up Our Obsession with Fixing the Church and What We Should Do Instead
Copyright 2015 by Reggie McNeal. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McNeal, Reggie.
Kingdom come : Why we must give up our obsession with fixing the church, and what we should do instead / Reggie McNeal.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4143-9187-8 (sc)
1. Kingdom of God. 2. Mission of the church. 3. Eschatology. I. Title.
BT94.M365 2015
231.7'2 dc23 2015000630
Build: 2016-10-04 11:20:14
To all Kingdom agentsmay your tribe increase!
I WAS THE GUEST SPEAKER AT a Lutheran church on Reformation Sunday, a high holy day for this denominational tribe that feels a special connection to the Reformation. This particular congregation had pulled out all the stops literally. Their pipe organ was at full throttle. The choirs sang, the handbell ringers rang, the orchestra swelled, and all the banners were unfurled. It was great pageantry, and I loved every minute of it.
My assignment that morning was to challenge the church to move forward into the future. After acknowledging the historical significance of Martin Luther in the progression of Christianity, I turned my comments to the churchs next chapter.
Weve been working at fixing the church for the past five hundred years, I said. Hows that going for us?
I reflected on the fact that, in my lifetime alone, weve been through the personal evangelism movement, the church renewal movement, the church growth movement, the worship wars, the church health craze, and the charismatic and neo-charismatic doctrinal debates (just to name a few of the topics that have captured the attention of church leaders). After sharing some current statistics about the growing disaffection of Americans with institutional religion, I proposed an alternative approach: Why not just do what the church
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