Unearth the Church

Exposing Foundations and Exorcising Selfishness

Johnmark Camenga

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781666788198
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

There are many ways in which the Church has missed the mark set for it by Jesus--that it would love God and neighbor and that it would preach, teach, and serve. In missing the mark, the Church has caused harm, often to the very people that Jesus called the Church to love and serve. This is a challenge to the Church to be honest about who and what it has become. This is a call to the Church to confess its selfishness and preferences and how they have led it to be of service to itself at the expense of everyone else. This is an effort to own the harm that we, the Church, have caused. This is an attempt at entering into a conversation with the people who have been harmed or left behind by the Church. If the Church is to be effective in the work Jesus has given it to do, the Church must repent of its selfishness, seek forgiveness for the harm it has caused, and be rebuilt on the foundation that Jesus laid out. That cannot happen until we Unearth the Church.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Mission Is Revealed by Action
• Chapter 2: Scriptural Mission
• Chapter 3: Modern Mission
• Chapter 4: Outside-In
• Chapter 5: Inside-Out
• Chapter 6: Belief, Action, Fruit
• Chapter 7: The Foundation
• Chapter 8: Conviction
• Chapter 9: Deny Self
• Chapter 10: Covenant
• Chapter 11: Foundation Is Future
• Chapter 12: Next Steps
• Chapter 13: Unearthed Church
• Bibliography