You are Ministers

by John Neal, Kevin Mooney (Editor), Dan Hullen (Editor)

In the daily grind of life, heart-work is the hard work and the continual work. But it is also the necessary work and the effectual work. Yet when churches focus merely on activities and programs, it is usually at the cost of genuine heart-level relationships. In such environments, ministry efforts add to the hectic pace of overtaxed households in disconnected communities, while church members languish-- figuratively "dying on the vine." John Neal examines the Bible's instruction on these life and death matters in You are Ministers . Discover how, rather than being the domain of professionals, true life-changing ministry flows from Christ through ordinary people and ordinary households walking in covenant community with one another. When we apply the gospel through heart-level relationships, speaking the truth in love, we build up one another in Christ to the glory of God the Father.

226 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2011

About the author

John Neal was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s in the United States and Great Britain, championing American literary nationalism and regionalism in their earliest stages. Neal advanced the development of American art, fought for women's rights, advocated the end of slavery and racial prejudice, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement.