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Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family is unavailable, but you can change that!

When you look at the church today, what do you see? A corporation with a CEO at the helm? A social organization that does good things for the community? Pastor Ross Parsley believes that neither of those pictures is God’s desire. Instead, God wants His church to function as a family—a group of real people who love each other and care for one another’s needs, no matter how messy. Our culture is...

King Saul did. We try to fit the next generation into our own plans and force them to use the same ideas, tactics, and tools that were used in the past. Sometimes this is rooted in pride or fear, but mostly just because we can’t imagine God using a scrawny little teenager to transform the battle. As I learned long ago from one of my mentors, Bob Sorge, the last seven words of a dying church are “We’ve never done it this way before.” We struggle with embracing the innovation, energy, and enthusiasm of