Zealous For Good Works: Mobilizing Your Church for the Good of Your Community - Softcover

Wilson; Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802416896 ISBN 13: 9780802416896

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Todd Wilson's church was devoted to the gospel and had long aspired to be the kind of city on a hill Jesus talks about in the Sermon on the Mount. They wanted their hurting neighbors to see the light of Christ and be drawn to meet Jesus. But how? What practices actually make something like that possible?

They found the answers they were looking for in Titus. In that often-overlooked book of the Bible, they discovered a call to be zealous for good works--the kind of good works that are like a bright light shining in the darkness. Zealous for Good Works is an exposition of Titus with a particular focus on mobilizing the church towards acting in kindness and goodness toward her neighbors. This book is for anyone who's ever wanted to make a difference in the world, and see their church do the same, but wondered how to make it happen. Zealous for Good Works offers you field-tested, scripturally based, practical answers that you and your church leaders will get excited about putting into practice.

Titus 2:11-14

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

About this title

About the Author

TODD A. WILSON, B.A., M.A. Wheaton College; Ph.D., Cambridge University, is the President of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He previously served as senior pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, IL. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including The Curse of the Law and the Crisis in Galatia, Pastors in the Classics, Galatians: Gospel-Rooted Living, The Pastor Theologian, Real Christian, Mere Sexuality and The Crucified Apostle. Todd is married to Katie and they have seven children, three biological and four adopted from Ethiopia.

From the Back Cover

Is your church transforming the community?

You want to see your church live out the gospel and sacrificially serve the community, drawing people in from all around--to be a city on a hill. But momentum lags, busyness and urgency stall out your good intentions. Does the Bible offer any instruction on how to become such a church? The answer lies in the oft overlooked book of the New Testament: Titus.

There, Pastor Todd Wilson discovered seven principles for becoming a church that bears the light of Christ to the world. And in Zealous for Good Works, he explains how you and your church can employ these foundational practices. You'll learn to:
-disciple effectively and biblically
-gain credibility in your community
-live more missionally right where you are

If we want our church be the city on a hill that Jesus described, we must cultivate a zeal for good works. Paul told Titus how to do just that. Are you ready to listen?

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802416896
• ISBN 13: 9780802416896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208