| So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (82 reviews)
Sales Rank: 235
Format: Kindle Book
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 191
Dewey Decimal Number: 248
ASIN: B001EGQLRU
Publication Date: August 17, 2008
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
Jake Colsen, an overworked and disillusioned pastor, happens into-a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance (in manner)-to the apostle John. A number of encounters with John as well as a family crisis lead Jake to a new understanding of what his life should be like: one filled with faith bolstered by a steady, close relationship with the God of the universe. Facing his own disappointment with Christianity, Jake must forsake the habits that have made his faith rote and rediscover the love that captured his heart when he first believed.Compelling and intensely personal, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO CHURCH ANYMORE relates a man's rebirth from performance-based Christianity to a loving friendship with Christ that affects all he does, thinks, and says. As John tells Jake, "There is nothing the Father desires for you more than that you fall squarely in the lap of his love and never move from that place for the rest of your life."
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 Enjoyed! January 7, 2009
I can see where this book could/can be very controversial. I, on the other hand liked it. Never have I bought in to the HUMAN requirements of Christianity & Church. This won't set well with the Church goers that think the "institution of church" is what you have to follow & believe to be living in God's Love. For those that have been disillusioned or hurt by that way of living, this is a vindicating read. God's LOVE is unconditional. Church love is not!
 Wow. How refreshing January 7, 2009
I enjoyed this fresh story of a man learning what depending on and walking with our Father looks like that I have already started reading another Jacobsen book (He Loves Me). I would highly recommend people that are in church and have grown up in church or are tired of church to read this. It calls into question the motives and standards by which most churches reflect what christianity looks like. It doesn't speak to leaving church and actually hate that the title is what it is because I think it has the potential to turn off some of the people in the church that could benefit most from it. It does speak to leaving the traps of "church" we have fallen into and allow it to become more about Him then us. As I said earlier I highly recommend this book!
Faith Rejuvenated January 6, 2009
I fancy myself a Christian, a true believer of Jesus Christ, with endless faith in God and the belief that he loves me no matter what and that through him all things are possible. But, regardless of the fact that I enjoy Sunday service, I've always felt that church was "forced" on me and that I must go to be a good Christian. "So you don't want to go to church anymore" spoke to me about MY relationship with God, and made me look at my relationship and the love of God in a whole new light. I now KNOW that I am a true Christian, and that by faith through His grace I will live an ethernal life with Jesus. Amen! Thanks Jake & Wayne for a GREAT book!
Excellent Book January 6, 2009
Great read once I started couldn't put it down. Will really make you think about your church.
Answers questions you may not yet have asked (out loud) January 4, 2009
Not so much an indictment of 'going to church' as a deep and insightful look at what fallen humanity manages to make of initially good ideas regarding community and fellowship. A unique approach is used here, with the storyteller sharing his growth of understanding as it occurred over 4 years of 'unscheduled' encounters with a man who speaks of Jesus with an intimate knowledge, as though he walked beside Him while on earth. Giving rise to speculation about whether THIS 'John' might be John the Disciple himself, these encounters pull the reader into his own state of wonder about how a first century Christian would view our idea of 'church' in the 21st Century. If you are a person who has been involved in 'church' in the way we often view the Christian religious organizations in America, whether institutional OR house church in form, be prepared to find yourself in uncomfortable descriptions and attitudes that you may well have not ever perceived being part of who you are, as well as a new perspective on systems and leaders you admire and trust. Much of the discomfort comes from realizing what stress and difficulty our systems have inadvertently set up, even for our youngest Sunday School goers, in confusing performance based affirmation with the unearned (I would say agape, though the writer does not use that term) love of God for His children, and the trust relationship He desires us to have with Him each and every day. Read this book! Take from it what God gives you to find, and perhaps you will move into a place of Christ-life that you never dreamed possible, and find your relationship with the Father far more real than heretofore realized.
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