Todays church faces many struggles and challenges.
These may be driven by different personal agendas, conflicting doctrines, new programs, or any number of day-to-day relational battles. This ongoing fight creates dysfunction that distracts many from the true mission of the church.
What if every individual in the church had the same purpose, the same plan, and used the same tools to move beyond these ongoing challenges?
Ray Ellis brings the reader into his personal journey of understanding, implementing, and applying biblical transformation. This book provides congregations and church leaders with a common set of resources to help people become more like Christ.
That is what Targeting Transformation is about.
Vorwort
This book challenges the church to have one focus transformation (becoming like Christ). Every person, every day, every time. We give you the tools, the maps, and the plan to accomplish this.
Autorentext
Ray worked the first half of his adult life building the family farm and working in the construction industry. At the same time, he served in the local church as mission chairman, deacon, and elder, where he was introduced to the ongoing struggles of church leadership. After responding to God's call into full-time ministry, Ray earned degrees in Bible, psychology, and counseling. Ray and his wife, Dewenia, still live on the family farm in rural Indiana, where they had the joy of raising three boys: Joseph, Joshua, and Dakota. They share the farm with their two dogs, Hector and Tim.
Zusammenfassung
Todays church faces many struggles and challenges. These may be driven by different personal agendas, conflicting doctrines, new programs, or any number of day-to-day relational battles. This ongoing fight creates dysfunction that distracts many from the true mission of the church. What if every individual in the church had the same purpose, the same plan, and used the same tools to move beyond these ongoing challenges? Ray Ellis brings the reader into his personal journey of understanding, implementing, and applying biblical transformation. This book provides congregations and church leaders with a common set of resources to help people become more like Christ. That is what Targeting Transformation is about.