Dinner church : (Record no. 138044)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781628243888
Qualifying information (paperback)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Sirsi) a95277
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BV3790
Item number .F677 2017
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Fosner, Verlon,
Relator term author.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Dinner church :
Remainder of title Building bridges by breaking bread /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Verlon Fosner.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Franklin, Tennessee :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Seedbed Publishing,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. [2017]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 183 pages ;
Dimensions 21 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "A fresh expressions book"--Cover.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182).
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. The day we realized we had cancer -- 2. The first dinner church -- 3. Rebirth -- 4. Preaching to sinners -- 5. The healer -- 6. The message of food -- 7. Table talk and natural evangelism -- 8. A different path of salvation -- 9. Protecting new vision -- 10. Sore neighborhoods -- 11. The thing about money -- 12. Calling all church planters -- 13. The family rescue business.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Christianity is the greatest rescue project the world has ever seen, yet many churches across America are shrinking instead of growing. After spending 18 years as a pastor in highly secularized Seattle, Verlon Fosner began to realize that the church had a sociological problem. While outreach efforts to find new wine were genuine, the church's old wineskin was brittle and leaking. In other words, the traditional ways of doing church were not capable of housing a new wine that would be necessary to compel a secular culture to Jesus. Somewhere in this struggle, Fosner and his leadership team began to consider the way church as done during the first three centuries, and the sociological implications of doing church around dinner tables. Inviting someone to a dinner with Jesus is a very different thing that inviting them to a worship/teaching event on a Sunday morning at a religious campus. In Dinner Church: Building Bridges by Breaking Bread, Verlon Fosner unveils how the ancient dinner church was rebirth in his Seattle community and how that vision changed his congregation forever. These pages also offer a compelling case for why many churches would do well to pause and see the pockets of lost people within the shadow of their steeples, and consider how a Jesus dinner table might open up a door to heaven for those neighbors. Revelation 3:20 makes it clear that Jesus still wants to have dinner with sinners. That likely means he wants his church to set the table."--Publisher.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Evangelistic work
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Church development, New
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Food
General subdivision Religious aspects
-- Christianity.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Dinners and dining
General subdivision Religious aspects
-- Christianity.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Hospitality
General subdivision Religious aspects
-- Christianity.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Church growth.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025 1 BV 3790 .F677 2017 98653152 12/02/2025 12/01/2025 12.99 10/28/2025 Book