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When The Church Was A Family: Recapturing Jesus' Vision For Authentic Christian Community (2009)

by Joseph H. Hellerman(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0805447792 (ISBN13: 9780805447798)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

B&H Academic

review 1: Hellerman unpacks the significance to an often overlooked but extremely powerful metaphor for Christ's Church: the Family. I heard the contents of this book delivered in Dr. Hellerman's lectures during my time in seminary. The implications of recognizing the Church as family was paradigm-shifting for me then and so I was happy to see that this book had finally been released in published form. Reading it now has only refreshed and reinforced my opinion that this, together with Leeman's "The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love," are the most important contemporary works on ecclesiology available today. I'm convinced that reading this book will change your mind forever about what you think of Christ's Church, as well as your local church.
review 2: A m... moreust read for every Christian in every denominational background. This book has hit me hard to realized we're missing it and also caused me to study further of the early church fathers and Orthodox Christians. Among the Protestant churches clearly shows a very independent, individualize church (also independent Christian by individual ones). The church is suppose to be a family not separatist or individual. less

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