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The Compelling Community: Where God's Power Makes a Church Attractive is unavailable, but you can change that!

The local church is meant to embody the vibrant diversity of the global church, transcending racial, cultural, and economic boundaries. Yet local churches too often simply reflect the same societal divisions prevalent in our world today—making them more akin to social clubs filled with like-minded people than the supernatural community the New Testament prescribes. Pastors Mark Dever and Jamie...

non-Christian neighbors of mine, whom you’ll meet in this book, would say it’s something supernatural. It was community they could not explain as non-Christians, and yet found profoundly attractive despite the offense of the gospel at its core. I’ll close this chapter with some questions to help you assess your own attitudes toward church community. 1. How do you define “success” for the network of relationships in your church that we call community? How close is your definition to Ephesians 3:10 (“through