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The contemporary church model thrived in American soil. Americans’ staggeringly high appetite for church attendance, standardization, and franchising, accompanied by a significant reservoir of latent Christians who were only an invite away from re-engaging with the church, ensured that the model, if done right, could succeed. However, in other parts of the West, namely the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, the model struggled to work as they found themselves further down the road of secularization.
Disappearing Church
Mark Sayers
The weekly habit of fasting, then, is a way to lean into both the emptiness of the world as it is and prayer for the coming fullness of the world as it will be. The world doesn’t end in fasting, of course, but in a feast. Above all, we fast because we long for the wedding supper of the Lamb.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
If the lost lamb got a party, and all the neighbors get called over for a missing coin, imagine what kind of bash-of-the-century God throws for a runaway child come home.
The Pursuing God
Joshua Ryan Butler
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