
Resurrecting Worship
A Pentecostal Liturgy for Slow Burn Revival
Joseph M. Lear(Author)
Cascade Books (Publisher)
Published on 4. February 2025
Book
Hardback
98 pages
979-8-3852-0264-5 (ISBN)
Description
Every year, more congregations in North America close their doors. Can a near-dead church be revived and renewed? Marketing campaigns or managerial innovation aren't going to work. We need theological and pastoral answers that come from the on-the-ground realities of churches.
Joseph Lear has seen first-hand God breathe new life into a dying congregation. Resurrecting Worship is a pastoral theology of renewal for the local church, offered through the story of one near-dead congregation becoming a vibrant, life-giving safe haven for the poor, the hungry, and the educated elite in Iowa City. Lear shows that every church service can be a mini-Pentecost. The Spirit of God will set hearts on fire as Jesus makes himself known in the breaking of bread and the faces of children. This church's Pentecostal liturgy started a slow-burn revival that renewed, motivated, and sustained a community who held kid-friendly potlucks, welcomed immigrants, housed the homeless, and canceled debts.
Lear's book will help you see what the Holy Spirit is doing in your own church no matter its condition, and equip you to fan into flame the gifts God has given your community.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-3852-0264-5 (9798385202645)
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E-Book
02/2025
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€17.49
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Persons
Joseph Lear is pastor of theology and preaching at Resurrection Assembly of God in Iowa City, and director of theology and global church ministries at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. He is author of What Shall We Do?: Eschatology and Ethics in Luke-Acts (2018) and writes Pastoral Theology with Joseph Lear on Substack. He is a church revitalization consultant and has partnered with five church plants across Iowa.