NAKED CHURCH is a handbook on empowering amateur Christian leaders
to authentically practice the New Testament one another verses in
home churches each week, with the goal of mutual growth and
maturity in Christ. Being naked with one another, being known and
knowing others, is the starting point for both pastors and lay
leaders who want to help fellow believers move out of
self-centeredness and immaturity to become forgivers, peacemakers
and effective kingdom proclaimers. The emphasis is on practicing
genuine hospitality and authentic vulnerability each week:
listening rather than lecturing, sharing struggles honestly, and
retelling the Great Story of Jesus to one another. The chapters
explain how home church leaders can nurture spiritual identity in
group members and release one another to grow up in Christ, while
mutually ministering their spiritual gifts. The author gives
biblical and practical insight from years of experience in leading
home churches, tackling such challenges to maturity as anger,
victimhood, financial disarray, unresolved marriage conflicts,
grief and loss. Real home church should be neither an encounter
group nor another Bible study, the author explains, but an ongoing
experience that helps us actually do the truth we already know. Jim
Reynolds holds a bachelor s and a master of divinity degree from
Abilene Christian University (1964, 1967), a doctorate from the
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif. (1974), and a law
degree from Southern Methodist University (1981). He has been a
licensed marriage and family counselor, and has published numerous
articles and books, including Secrets of Eden, God and Human
Sexuality (1974), The Lepers Among Us (2007), The Lavish
Hospitality of God (2009), Why We Don t Shoot the Wounded (2010),
and The Unfinished Drama of Scripture (2012). Jim has taught
religion, theology, philosophy, and biblical studies at Pepperdine
University and the University of Texas, and presently is an adjunct
professor at Dallas Christian College. From 1981 to 2007, Jim was a
family lawyer and partner with the Whitaker Chalk law firm in Fort
Worth, Texas. Since 1984 he has been pastor of Lake Highlands
Church in Dallas, Texas. Jim and his wife, Donna, have two children
and eight grandchildren.
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