Fear-fed or Joy Fueled? Ready for a change?
"Ground-breaking," "Revolutionary," "Refreshing and Crucial." Thought leaders from around the world are talking about the impact this book is having on their own lives and work.
These three authors bring together their decades of experience as pastors, missionary trainers and consultants in one voice. The result is proving to be transformational worldwide.
Are you tired of being spiritually overfed yet under-nourished? Are you worn out by all the things you "should" be doing? Are you burned out on religion and wanting to bring more connection and participation to conventional church? Or, are you one of the 65 million people in the United States alone who are "Done" with church as they know it searching for how to better engage as an organic church, simple church, or house church? Do you want to accept Jesus' invitation to "get away with him and recover your life"?
This revolutionary and yet practical book addresses the causes of burnout many Christians face and empowers them to join God in a joy-fueled movement of Jesus!
Vibrancy and joy are what Christians are promised. Yet, many have experienced the opposite: a guilt-ridden, duty-based, judgemental culture that has left them still searching for the life Jesus promised.
Perhaps you find yourself:
- Trying to effect true life change, but feeling discouraged, tired, overwhelmed, and losing hope?
- Done with investing your life in a system that is not producing sustainable transformation in yourself or those you serve?
- Leaving conventional church altogether feeling discouraged, lonely, hurt, frustrated or apathetic?
- Searching for how to better engage as an organic church, simple church, or house church?
After more than 10 years of coaching individuals, families and communities in the joy-fueled way described in these pages, the authors have seen a spontaneous, world-wide movement spring up from six continents, bridging the divides of race, class, culture, privilege and politics. It has been their delight to witness this movement emerging. It is now their joy to share what they have learned:
- What is joy and why it is a superior fuel for motivation
- The harmful effects of using substitute "fuels" that leave us discouraged and burned out
- How you can nurture joy in yourself and your church (whatever form that might take)
- How mission can be a spontaneous explosion of joy
In Joy Fueled, you will discover three practices that inspire hope to build the joy necessary to go the distance, foster mature relationships with others and with God, and overflow into a life of mission.
What is stopping you from reclaiming joy as your primary motivation and joining God in catalyzing a self-propagating revolution of joy?
