Indispensable Church: Powerful Ways to Flood Your Community with Love

You have a passionate desire to take the church outside its four walls and make the love of Jesus practical, visible, and lived out in daily life. But how? How do you put into action what is stirring in your heart?Indispensable Church provides you and your church real-world, hands-on steps to create a revolution of service to your local community in the name of Christ. By exploring the life of Jesus and the strategic ways he modeled serving the people around him, pastor Chris Sonksen shows you how to put love into action in your neighborhood and your city. The step-by-step instructions, biblical challenges, and teaching resources will help you take love to the streets and make an impact right where you live. From the Back Cover How your church can become vital to your communityYou have a passionate desire to take the church outside its four walls and make the love of Jesus practical, visible, and lived out in daily life. But how? How do you put into action what is stirring in your heart?Indispensable Church provides you and your church real-world, hands-on steps to create a revolution of service to your local community in the name of Christ. By exploring the life of Jesus and the strategic ways he modeled serving the people around him, pastor Chris Sonksen shows you how to put love into action in your neighborhood and your city. The step-by-step instructions, biblical challenges, and teaching resources will help you take love to the streets and make an impact right where you live."Few people could deliver this encouraging and challenging reminder to us like Chris Sonksen. Read this book and learn together how to make your church one that your community cannot imagine doing without."--Dino Rizzo, executive director, ARC (Association of Related Churches)"How many churches do you know of that are truly indispensable? Would the community break out in protest if they heard that your church was relocating? You and I know the answer to those questions already. That is why my friend Chris Sonksen's latest book, Indispensable Church, is truly indispensable. This book should be in the hands of all church leaders--transforming the world."--Sam Chand, leadership consultant and author ofHarnessing the Power of Tension About the Author Chris Sonksen is the author ofWhen Your Church Feels Stuck,Quit Church, andIndispensable Church. His personal experience comes from his own success in pioneering South Hills Church, a multicampus church that has been widely recognized for its unprecedented growth and strategic approaches to doing ministry. He is also the founder of Church BOOM, an organization that has provided personal coaching to hundreds of churches and impacted thousands of leaders. Chris and his wife, Laura, have two children and live in Southern California.