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Interesting look at how the church could work together
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Body Life: The Book That Inspired a Return to the Church's Real Meaning and Mission
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Ray Stedman's classic book on church renewal shows you how to help your church recapture the vigor and passion of the early church, a radical body of enthusiastic believers who spread the Word of God throughout the world! Includes study questions.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1972
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272 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1995 by Discovery House Publishers
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9781572930001
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1572930004
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English
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Body life: over promised, under delivered. The book that started it all. A piece of hippy culture that made into the mainstream.
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This book should be required reading for any new Christian, or a Christian who wants to revitalize their spiritual walk. Stedman walks the reader through understanding of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul to the early church while relating those same lessons to today's Body of Christ, which is the church. Each person receives one, or more spiritual gifts with the expectation that those gifts will be used to fulfill God's great commission and to build up the local Body of Christ.
Stedman is truly gifted as a teacher and his unpretentious teaching style is very easy to understand for readers of all ages and reading levels. This book would provide a wonderful study guide for small groups, Sunday Schools and family studies.
Stedman is truly gifted as a teacher and his unpretentious teaching style is very easy to understand for readers of all ages and reading levels. This book would provide a wonderful study guide for small groups, Sunday Schools and family studies.
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Life of Ressurrected Jesus!
This book explains the life of ressurrected Jesus in simple and plain words that is available for us! Every chapter dislodged some scales from my eyes so that I can see both the resurrected Jesus & counterfeit Jesus living today on earth more clearly and plainly. This book answered most of my open questions that popped up within me in the last couple of years. This book once again reminded me of the exhortation in Hebrews, "Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end."
This book explains the life of ressurrected Jesus in simple and plain words that is available for us! Every chapter dislodged some scales from my eyes so that I can see both the resurrected Jesus & counterfeit Jesus living today on earth more clearly and plainly. This book answered most of my open questions that popped up within me in the last couple of years. This book once again reminded me of the exhortation in Hebrews, "Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end."
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In his book, Body Life, Pastor, and Author Ray C. Stedman takes an in-depth look at Ephesians chapter four and explains how the church is supposed to function biblically. Starting with Christ as the foundation, Stedman also explores the different responsibilities of leadership such as Apostles and Evangelists. He stipulates that every believer has been equipped with a spiritual gift which is to be used for the encouragement and edification of the Body of Christ. Can today’s church replicate the model found in the New Testament? Stedman’s answer is, “Yes” and clarifies why it must, to fulfill its mission.
Body Life is an enlightening, accessible but not an exhaustive volume. As a gifted teacher himself, the author illuminates and illustrates the key principles of the passage in such a way that both new and mature believers will benefit the exposition. It is not an academic tome. It seems a solid and concise effort. Stedman’s contemporary definition of an Apostle as a “church planter” seems a bit off. In addition, I don’t know how one evangelizes properly if there isn’t an emphasis on sin. Apart from these aspects, I found Body Life a worthy effort in explaining how the church should function in the modern age.
Body Life is an enlightening, accessible but not an exhaustive volume. As a gifted teacher himself, the author illuminates and illustrates the key principles of the passage in such a way that both new and mature believers will benefit the exposition. It is not an academic tome. It seems a solid and concise effort. Stedman’s contemporary definition of an Apostle as a “church planter” seems a bit off. In addition, I don’t know how one evangelizes properly if there isn’t an emphasis on sin. Apart from these aspects, I found Body Life a worthy effort in explaining how the church should function in the modern age.
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A look at church life from the Ephesians 4 model. There was lots of good stuff here but it didn't seem really practical to my life right where I am today.
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I nearly skipped this book because of the awkward title but I have such great respect for Ray Stedman as a teacher that I read it anyway and I’m glad I did. It’s a great brief summary of how a church body is supposed to operate. Some of the things that were earthshaking in the 70’s are now standard in church (somewhat because of the great impact of this book at the time) but many of these lessons are still unheeded by many churches in 2021!
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This is a classic that every church leader should read.
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