Binding: Paperback
Description: Are you struggling to connect with your church community? Do you find yourself questioning the core beliefs that you once held dear? Searching for Sunday from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans is a heartfelt ode to the past and a hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the modern church. Like millions of her millennial peers Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy the politics the gargantuan building budgets the scandals - - to her it was beginning to feel like church culture was too far removed from Jesus. Yet despite her cynicism and misgivings something kept drawing Evans back to church. Evans found herself wanting to better understand the church and find her place within it so she set out on a new adventure. Within the pages of Searching for Sunday Evans catalogs her journey as she loves leaves and finds the church once again. Evans tells the story of her faith through the lens of seven sacraments of the Catholic church - - baptism confession holy orders communion confirmation the anointing of the sick and marriage - - to teach us the essential truths about what she's learned along the way including: Faith isn't just meant to be believed it's meant to be lived and shared in community Christianity isn't a kingdom for the worthy - - it's a kingdom for the hungry the broken and the imperfect The countless and beautiful ways that God shows up in the ordinary parts of our daily lives Searching for Sunday will help you unpack the messiness of community teaching us that by overcoming our cynicism we can all find hope grace love and somewhere in between church.
Title: Searching For Sunday Loving Leaving And Finding The Church
Author(s): Evans Rachel Held
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Barcode: 9780718022129
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 4/14/2015
Category: Christian Spirituality & Religious Experience