Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer and Faith Sharing

by Martha Grace Reese

Unbinding Your 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing is a brilliant book -- witty, engaging, and grounded in a four-year, national Lilly Endowment study of superb evangelism. Unbinding Your Heart is a six-week individual and small-group study for your entire congregation. It is the culmination of the Real Life Evangelism Series, by author, researcher, pastor and attorney Martha Grace Reese. Church leaders should first studyUnbinding the Gospel (the church leaders' study) that was selected by The Christian Century as a featured "Take and Read" book in its 2007 Book Issue. Then use Unbinding Your Heart as a study and devotional for the whole congregation (for fall, lent or summer). The third book in the series, Unbinding Your Church (the pastor's guide), will help you plan, teach, pray and organize both your leaders' study and your all-church study. Your entire congregation will begin to pray, to talk about their faith, and to risk sharing their faith beyond church walls. The Real Life Evangelism Series has been enthusiastically endorsed by 8 heads of denominations, Brian McLaren, George Hunter, Becky Garrison, Todd Hunter, Richard Peace, and countless pastors and church leaders. Important Order a copy of Unbinding Your Heart for each person participating in the study. There is an individual prayer journal included to be used by each participant.

Genres: Church, Evangelism, Christianity, Nonfiction

164 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Eric Abels · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 Stars.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

My church small group did Unbinding the Gospel last year and just finished Unbinding Your Heart. The second book focuses on the importance of prayerful evangelism. M.G. Reese is part realist and part idealist, a nice combination for this effort.

[DH · Rating 3 out of 5]

Our Sunday school class (and the whole church) read this. Interesting.

[Lenorek · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is okay, but our small group experience and the prayer journal/meditation was amazing...

[JoyGenea Schumer · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a well written book. I just wasn't in tune with all of the opinions given in the book, but it was very thought provoking and made for great conversation in small group.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was definitely a change from Rick Warren!

[J.K. · Rating 1 out of 5]

am doing this in a small book group. So far the group is better than the book.