Vertical Church, James MacDonald
Vertical Church, James MacDonald
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Vertical Church
What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

Author: James MacDonald

Narrator: James MacDonald

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2012


Synopsis

An emergency call, and I rush from my coziness into the dark community where the police have requested a chaplain. Arriving in minutes, I find the family imploding with grief having just discovered their son hanging in the garage. In a moment of unshakable pain, he jumped off the ladder and into eternity. And I will never shake the look in their eyes when I asked why he hadn't called a church. "Why would he do that?" Across town, a pool of tears on my kitchen table as an out of town guest feels the weight of his infidelity, despairing that his famished soul finds no refuge and that he has to board a plane to feel fellowship. "Has your church tried to help you?" And the Christian leader confesses he hasn't been to church in years. Infighting, backbiting, heartbreaking, frustrating ... church.Though exceptions do exist, the reality is that church in America is failing one life at a time. Somewhere between pathetically predictable and shamefully entertaining, sadly sentimental and rarely authentic, church has become worst of all ... godless.Vertical Church points to a new day where God is the seeker, and we are the ones found. In Vertical Church God shows up, and that changes everything. If you want to experience God as you never have before and witness His hand at work, if you want to wake up to the first thought, "Thank God it's Sunday," if you're ready to feel your heart beat faster as you drive to your place of worship ... then devour and digest the lessons of Vertical Church.

About James MacDonald

Dr. James MacDonald is founding pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel. He is the author of the bestseller I Really Want to Change...So, Help Me God and several other books. Walk in the Word is his national radio broadcast. He earned his Masters in Religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and his Doctor of Ministry from Phoenix Seminary. He and his wife, Kathy, have three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

A good perspective on the ultimate purpose of church. I appreciated MacDonald's focus on the glory of God and the four pillars (worship, preaching, evangelism, and prayer) he outlined for churches to pursue that goal of God's glory. Some of his thoughts about the actual applications of these four pi......more

The first chapters on God's Glory are awesome. I cannot stress that enough. However, I wish I could just recommend parts of this book, because the whole of it was disappointing. The first chapters are gold. Very profound. Convicting. Majestic. Relevant. I'd argue they're even useful to share with pe......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

I have not yet finished the book but I have to say "Wow". This is the book I have been waiting for. It's due at the library tomorrow but I must purchase this book. I could not begin to type in all the meaningful sections in this book in the review. This book is the first of many church books I have......more