Dale H. Edwardson

Change It Up: Transforming Ordinary Churches into Passionate Disciplemaking Communities Dale H. Edwardson

Change is the beginning of revolution. Change is the start of transformation. Without change, the end draws near. That's a fact of life. Businesses die everyday, simply because they won't change. We see it everywhere. And churches lie empty and dormant across this land for the very same reason. Enough change takes place over time that churches that were once full and vibrant and attractive now sit empty and cold. Or they remain open with a declining number of people, focused on God but irrelevant to man.

The purpose of this book is to challenge us and to show us how to aggressively change the things in our own church culture that will then allow us to influence and impact our surrounding communities. We want to be followers of Christ, bringing radical transformation to a world that's desperately lost. If the entire structure and programming of the church is focused on mobilizing disciples to go and bring their friends to Christ, then those friends will be coming to Christ, coming to church, growing into disciples and then going after their friends! This Biblical mindset needs to drive everything! Everything must change that's not moving us toward God's actual will for our churches.

If the entire structure and programming of the church has deteriorated into something that simply maintains itself, like an old folk's home, we will die! New life won't come with great new ideas, new programs or new structures. New life will rise out of a fresh awakening to an old, but ageless truth- go and make disciples who go! Get ready for thirteen chapters filled with loads of details about what church should really look like. Every chapter builds toward the final product- turning self-serving people into multiplying disciples, filled with the Spirit and focused on the Mission!