Embodying Our Faith: Becoming a Living, Sharing, Practicing Church

Brief Review: Embodying Our Faith by Tim Morey [Vol. 3, #7]

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Check copyright status Cite this Title Embodying our faith: The challenge ever since has been for the church to look more like Christ. Tim Morey had this challenge in mind as he oversaw the planting of Life Covenant Church in Torrance, California, and he keeps it in mind as he coaches other church planters in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Embodying Our Faith

In this book he brings his experience, combined with research and theological reflection, to help your church cultivate the irreducible qualities of an embodied apologetic: Unreached, unchurched and dechurched Show and tell: Notes Includes bibliographical references p. View online Borrow Buy Freely available Show 0 more links Set up My libraries How do I set up "My libraries"? These 2 locations in All: Open to the public ; Becoming a Living, Sharing, Practicing Church 4. The challenge ever since has been for the church to look more like Christ. Tim Morey had this challenge in mind as he oversaw the planting of Life Covenant Church in Torrance, California, and he keeps it in mind as he coaches other church planters "Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Tim Morey had this challenge in mind as he oversaw the planting of Life Covenant Church in Torrance, California, and he keeps it in mind as he coaches other church planters in the Evangelical Covenant Church. In this book he brings his experience, combined with research and theological reflection, to help your church cultivate the irreducible qualities of an embodied apologetic: Paperback , pages.

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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Embodying Our Faith , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 13, Derek rated it it was amazing. Morey's book does a great job of explaining the importance of having an embodied faith By caring and loving those around us in tangible ways, the lives we live allow people to consider the Good News that we want to share with them.

Embodying Our Faith: Becoming a Living, Sharing, Practicing Church

Plus, for me as a pastor, this book puts very clearly into words what I have become convinced is important ministry. Morey gives great examples Morey's book does a great job of explaining the importance of having an embodied faith Morey gives great examples from his experience as a church planter how our churches can function in ways that assist people to meet and become disciples of Jesus!

Apr 01, Suzie rated it really liked it. Becoming a Living, Sharing, Practicing Church. More importantly, guided by the words of Christ, Tim takes the heart of the reader and gently reminds us of what it means to live out our faith in a way that points others to the true Jesus. This book did not disappoint as Tim paints a beautiful picture of what Church is intended to be. A worshipful, loving, authentic, deeply engaging, serving and growing community that pours inward so that it can pour outward. I highly recommend this book to any believer and community of believers who desire a better understanding of how to daily live out their faith in such a way that they may actually bear the image of Christ.

Aug 11, Jared Totten rated it really liked it. If I were to give the award today for the book that most exceeded the low expectations I'd placed on it, Embodying Our Faith by Tim Morey would certainly win of course, I can't give that award out until the end of the year. The marked presence of such names as McClaren, Pagitt and McManus in the reference notes at the back of the book set me on high alert for anything "too Emergent" don't ask for a definition, I have none. However my fears were ill-founded. Tim Morey pleads with a generation If I were to give the award today for the book that most exceeded the low expectations I'd placed on it, Embodying Our Faith by Tim Morey would certainly win of course, I can't give that award out until the end of the year.

Tim Morey pleads with a generation of Christians who were largely won and schooled by a modernist apologetic, as many of these same Christians are at a loss as to why the same apologetic is ineffective with a postmodern crowd. After defining our postmodern climate as one that is characterized by deconstruction, moral relativism and religious pluralism, Morey poses his big question this way: He suggests that our postmodern culture is hungry for transcendence, community and purpose.

Of course, we have all experienced these to varying degrees within the walls of our churches, but seldom do we consider those our strongest cases for Christianity when reaching out. For all the reading I have done on the postmodern mindset and philosophy, I had not considered—at least on the level Tim Morey has—how this should impact our apologetics and evangelism. I was completely thrilled by this book and the approach Tim Morey has offered—in largely orthodox fashion it seemed to me. Church leaders and those interested in evangelism and apologetics.

One foot represents logical arguments for the gospel. The other foot represents our experience of the gospel.

A Work In Progress

However, we still stand on both feet. We need to maintain our understanding of the Truth but realize that many people need to see our faith in action before they will ever consider the truth. Morey spends a lot more time explaining an embodied apologetic than most others who have talked about the concept and I appreciate his ability to take an abstract concept and make it concrete. The Christian life is not meant to be an objective pursuit of orthodox doctrine but is embodied in those who follow a Person rather than a dogma.

Seldom do you find [in the book of Acts] a proclamation of the gospel without an accompanying experience of the gospel.

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Again, he is able to succinctly describe a vision for the present about how we should contextualize the gospel. Morey wants the church to start being on mission. As church members, we are missionaries in our own neighborhood. The task of every missionary is to understand the culture to be reached and to bring the undiluted gospel to that culture in a form that will be understandable to the hearers. This process is known as contextualization.

He quotes Eddie Gibbs:. Evangelizing baby boomers is like picking fruit from an aging tree, while evangelizing postmoderns is like fertilizing the roots in hope that fruit will one day appear. In chapters 3 and 4, Morey talks about what it means to make disciples in a postmodern context. In other words, Morey believes that we are seeing a shift in how people come to Jesus and it may not be a one time event…it might be a process. He describes several shifts for us to consider today:.

Too often we present the gospel as a set of truths we must subscribe to, as opposed to a relationship with Jesus who is the Truth.

Throughout the book, Morey is developing a way of thinking about the needs of our postmodern neighbors and how the church naturally meets those needs through an embodied apologetic. An embodied apologetic must be experiential.

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