Uncharted Waters: The Search for Authentic Faith in the Seas of Organized Religion - Softcover

Koop, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1962133702 ISBN 13: 9781962133708

Verlag: Platypus Publishing, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Organized Religion tends to eat its own, consuming most of its resources to build up and preserve a cultural expression of the Church. Equipping people for works of service outside the walls of the local church seem to be a lost art...

This book is an inspiring account of how people have risen above painful encounters with organized religion. Many are finding a vibrant faith outside their Sunday morning attendance. You will read stories of people who have left those churches and who are seeking life-giving communities of faith that run counter to a business run model of doing church.

If you find yourselves in a similar situation, in these pages, you will see the fog lifting and will be equipped with what you need to navigate your way to a vibrant faith you've always dreamed of.

When people walk out of the churches they are attending, they do so, not because they wanted to, but because they came to the end of their ability to endure attending a church that exists for itself. They want more. They are looking for a place where their gifts are valued more than their attendance and the money they give. They know there is more to their faith than to sit in a congregation and be entertained.

Leaving a church is nothing new. Neither is the sense that upon leaving, families feel adrift, having become unmoored to their support systems. In the stories told, you will see the storms settle, and will find yourselves equipped to chart a course back home to safe harbor.

What Others Are Saying

“Rod has a gift to inspire people. He has the uncanny ability to communicate difficult things that are easily understood. This book reads like a Coroner doing an autopsy, describing systematically what took place without any of the drama.” – Aaron Suzuki

“It is hard to put into words how I felt while reading these pages. I felt shame, anger, bewilderment and plain disgust for organized religion. At the same time, I’m hopeful, enlightened and grateful for the other side of the story being told. This book needed to be written. This author handled the subject with justice and treated it fairly. Great work!” - Steve Breshears

"I have struggled with the institutional church and the pastors therein, what I see in this book is an inside look at their challenges and dictates which opens my heart with empathy for them, (I have learned to keep boundaries.) The book is very well laid out. It flows without any jagged edges, though sometimes there are jagged edges to my soul in the truth of what I read. The way the book ends is spectacular…I am filled with hope." -Theresa Coburn

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Platypus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1962133702
• ISBN 13: 9781962133708
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162
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