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An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind Hardcover – June 1, 2001

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An Unstoppable Force will excite and inspire readers about being part of the Church that God had in mind! A "force" created to change the world. A Church that is engaged with its community, daring to cut itself free from atrophied practices and programs to flourish in creative and compelling worship. A Church that risks reaching out to our jaded culture with "outside the box" expressions of faith and love.

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I love this book because Erwin loves the church. Growing churches require growing leaders. This book will help. -- Rick Warren, Saddleback Church

If I could only recommend one book for every religious leader, this would be the one. -- Leonard Sweet, Drew University

Unstoppable Force contains insights and principles that I believe can help churches grow and reach their full potential in Christ. -- Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers

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Surprising. Risky. Daring to change the world. Church {just got really interesting!}

In An Unstoppable Force, author Erwin McManus offers a vision of the church taking its rightful place. An unstoppable force created to change the world. A church that is active and engaged with its community. A church that dares to cut itself free from atrophied practices and programs to flourish in creative and compelling worship. Where teachers of the Word risk reaching out to our multi-sensory, multi-layered culture with music, the arts and other unique expressions of love and faith. A church that prospers in the life of Christ.

New life comes into a church-an apostolic ethos-when it realizes its destiny is found in its early church origins. A living part of the body of Christ. Driven to find its uniqueness beyond being a cookie cutter copy of the "successful church." An Unstoppable Force will
*Challenge you to see God's vision for the mission and purpose of the church.
*Help you to explore specific changes in the culture that call for immediate change in the church.
*Offer practical ways for your church to find its unique voice and identity to express Christ's love and faith to your culture.
*Present interactive questions in each chapter to foster discussion about the life of your church, its focus on Christ, and how it can be a richer influence on your culture. Never settle for church as usual again! Let An Unstoppable Force excite and inspire you to be part of the Church that God had in mind!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Group Pub Inc; First Edition (June 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764423061
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764423062
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.34 x 0.83 x 9.29 inches

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Erwin Raphael McManus is a mind, life, and cultural architect and an award-winning author and artist. His books have sold over one million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. As a world-renowned communicator, McManus has spoken to millions of people in seventy countries on five continents in stadiums of up to one-hundred thousand people. His creative genius has resulted in consulting work with organizations spanning from the NFL to the Pentagon. McManus has spent the last thirty years advising and coaching CEOs, professional athletes, celebrities, billion-dollar companies, universities, and world-leaders, and is passionate about helping people destroy their internal limitations and unlock their personal genius. A native of El Salvador, McManus is also recognized internationally for being the founder and lead pastor of Mosaic, a spiritual movement that has inspired millions worldwide. He and his wife, Kim, also lead humanitarian work across the globe. McManus coaches leaders, entrepreneurs, and communicators worldwide through McManus Mastermind as well as his groundbreaking work on The Seven Frequencies of Communication.

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Unexpectedly good read

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Joseph Valentine Dworak

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Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2001

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As soon as I knew that Erwin's first book was available I ordered it. Erwin McManus leads a church in Los Angeles that is unlike any church I have ever encountered. This book goes through much of the foundational patterns of the church, Mosaic, and Erwin's personal vision for church in the 21st Century. The work begins with some of the things that have gone wrong with church in the modern era. The author mentions that church is treated as an organization instead of a living organism. He argues that church must be treated as a living organism to awaken an apostolic ethos, which unleashed the movement of God. I can say with great certainty that not too many churches are thinking this way. Every church that I involved myself with, whether as a volunteer, or paid ministry professional, treated church as a business for God. Business systems are fine for the business world, but what the author argues for is that church be treated as a living organism, a species, that must adapt and change to remain culturally relevant. He argues that when church is a living organism, its members will reproduce new believers, small groups will reproduce communities of faith, and the church will unleash the apostolic movement of God.
The author next moves us towards how the church has become stagnant. He rails us to not be stuck in a safe theology, rather for us to move towards engaging what Christ envisioned as a dangerous faith. One of the more interesting pieces of this work is when the author notes that the only storm that can sink a church is the storm that rages from within. From my own experience, joining a church after it had split over a small issue, this rings completely true and close to home. How many times have churches split over issues ranging from what color the carpet will be to what to do with the missions' budget for the following year. It seems to me that God is looking down upon us and grabbing his hair in frustration.
This book became even more important to me personally in wake of the recent tragedies in New York City and Washington, D.C. The author informs us that Globalization and a mass urbanization is taking place all around us whether we like it or not, and churches need to do something to handle this new change, risk extinction. Time and time again I see churches near the city whose neighborhoods have changed, and they have done nothing about it. The so-called transitional communities, change, and become ethnically diverse, and the original church members move to the newer suburbs, and there is no shift in what the church looks like. The new people in the neighborhood have no place to attend worship; they simply are not going to attend a church where they are not represented in leadership. The author commands us to change, to be a living organism as a church, to move past being purpose driven, and being alive. Many church models over the past two decades focus on get the new people in, train them up, and send them out. This model was fine in a more ethnically stagnant climate which we dwelt in during the modern era. What the author commands us to do is to move back to the past, so we can see the future.
Other authors, such as Robert Webber, and Leonard Sweet echo what Erwin calls us to do, have a radical new vision for church in the postmodern era. To emulate the apostles and how 12 men and their followers changed the face of the world. The author challenges us to find, or to ourselves be catalytic leaders who are not afraid to move fast and move others quickly with us. While not everyone will be a catalytic movement leader, when the church or body of believers finds a catalytic movement leader, let us not snuff them out. To many times churches that refuse to change, whose feet are stuck in spiritual cement, refuse to identify, and then develop leaders who will awaken the church from the slumber of decline. This needs to change. While this author's work definitely does not provide a ten step plan to improve your church, he does more. Erwin McManus calls us to reexamine everything about how we do church. If we hope to survive and thrive in an era where Islam in the fastest growing religion in the United States, we all should take heed to what Erwin is saying to us in the important work.

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If your church is failing in its great commision consider this book.

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Our church has a fine record of training Christian soldiers for God's army but fell well short of committing them to battle. This is typical of many churches today. Mr. McManus identifies a great many reasons why the church creates a safe haven for retired Christians but fails to carry out our great commission.

Our church, led by our pastor, recognized this short coming and suggested that we devise a course to help solve the problem. I was searching for a suitable text I came across this book on our surplus book table. Now I do not believe in coincidence in the Kingdom of God so I gave this special attention. After the contents of this book I found it to be more than suitable for our class.

I found that, to make a course more effective, you need to replace many of the personal examples with those related to your own churches special needs. For example the McManus church and its congregation are far different than our church in Ohio.

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2001

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Just when you think you understand what the church should be and the place church has in society you meet Erwin McManus-an original, who follows no one's mold but is certainly charting a new path that others will want to follow. He has profound insight into the big picture of the patterns of church and culture and how we can best influence the world around us. His church is comprised of people from 50 nations in the heart of East Los Angeles. He believes that "institutions preserve culture, while movements create culture.... There is a radical difference between leading one person to faith and leading a people to faith. The former produces a follower of Jesus Christ; the latter produces a movement of Jesus Christ. A genuine movement is a leadership culture." "It is more important to change what people care about than to change what they believe! You can believe without caring, but you can't care without believing." "If you're not willing to create problems, you're not willing to lead. Leaders create problems by changing expectations."
Erwin's church, Mosaic, has creatively expressed their purposes through the use of five elemental metaphors: Evangelism is the Mission represented by Wind; Fellowship is Water; Service is Wood, Worship is Fire and Discipleship is Earth. Talk about "branding" concepts...every time we feel the wind we think of our mission! Every time we work in the yard we think of the four soils!
Just as anything must be built from three basic shapes (circles, rectangles and triangles) and with three basic colors (yellow, blue and red) so everything in the church can be built from the basic spiritual elements of faith, hope and love. All they do is through the creative expression of the blending of these elements.
Erwin does not believe in a "step by step" growth process but truly believes that even the youngest believers can be involved in ministering to others. He uses arts, music, drama etc to communicate his message in a variety of church settings, from traditional to a nightclub setting. This is a definite "must read" if you want to get a glimpse of what the church may look like in this century.

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Really loved this Book that gave the inside track to Erwin and Mosaic. It's insight into the church's apostolic nature and the philosophy underfunding that ethos I condescending and enlightening. This is a must read for Pastors & Leaders.

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