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020			_a 9781628243888 _q (paperback)
035			_a(Sirsi) a95277
050			_a BV3790 _b .F677 2017
100	1		_a Fosner, Verlon, _e author.
245			_a Dinner church : _b Building bridges by breaking bread / _c Verlon Fosner.
260			_a Franklin, Tennessee : _b Seedbed Publishing, _c [2017]
300			_a 183 pages ; _c 21 cm
500			_a "A fresh expressions book"--Cover.
504			_a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182).
505			_a 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			_a "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			_a Evangelistic work _z United States.
650			_a Church development, New _z United States.
650			_a Food _x Religious aspects _x Christianity.
650			_a Dinners and dining _x Religious aspects _x Christianity.
650			_a Hospitality _x Religious aspects _x Christianity.
650			_a Church growth.
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