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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...

preaching or for a church more focused on men’s ministry or social justice issues. Do you see what has happened? The family has not been won to a church. They’ve been won to a menu of attractive goods and services. So just counting the numbers does not tell us the whole story. It doesn’t ensure for us that we are doing the things the Bible actually calls the church to do. We may argue that we are called to be fishers of men and that the increasing size of our churches proves we are doing just that, but