The Last Church Standing: Becoming the Church Jesus Is Co...
Clark, F. Stoner
The ultimate purpose of the church in this world is to become the spiritual milieu in which followers of Jesus are nurtured into the full stature life of Christ. As a result God and his kingdom are made attractive to a lost and dying world. Unfortunately neither of these truths defines the church in America today. Multiple studies reveal the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of Christians are barely distinguishable from those of persons in the ...