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The Prodigal Church: A Gentle Manifesto against the Status Quo is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pastors want to reach the lost with the good news of Jesus. However, we've too often assumed this requires loud music, flashy lights, and skinny jeans. In this gentle manifesto, Jared Wilson—a pastor who knows what it's like to serve in a large attractional church—challenges pastors to reconsider their priorities when it comes to how they "do church" and reach people in their communities. Writing...

submit to his authority and to his will, then everything we do, 24/7, is worshiping God. Our whole life is to be a living, breathing worship service. At the same time, even though our worship is to consume our whole life, it is meant to be self-abandoning. Look at the second part of that Revelation passage again. What did they do? They cast their crowns down before the throne. Coming before God, they reflect humility. They don’t come before him with a worship that is self-involved and self-centered.