You Lost Me Book Report

Pipes and Lee, in Family to Family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy seeks to provide parents with a framework for passing a lasting Christian legacy to their children. Of course, they do so with a decidedly conservative underpinning one would expect from Southern Baptist ministers and they make no excuses for doing so. Pipes and Lee lay out a plan in six chapters where parents can pass on their faith to their children and reverse the trend of them leaving the church upon turning 18. Beginning with Healthy Families in Chapter One and concluding with sharing the message in Chapter Six, Pipes and Lee provide and outline filled with helpful tips and ideas on how families can grow closer

“The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church” by Dr. Ron Rosenbladt is a presentation that focuses on those who have left the church behind and no longer associate themselves with it. He categorizes those who have left into two sections: “sad” alumni and “mad” alumni. Sad alumni are those people who really wanted to believe but never could really get it right, while mad alumni are those who were “conned” by the church into giving themselves over to Christ and trying to believe and then when things didn’t quite work out, they were tossed away. This presentation focuses on how to bring people like this back to the faith, both the sad and mad alumni.

“I have carefully and thoroughly read the entire book as assigned.” Throughout David Platt’s book, “Radical : Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream”, he encourages the reader to take a look at their life and see whether or not Christ is all they need to impact their life for Jesus in a radical way. He asks the reader to carefully examine their life, and see if there are areas that perhaps the Lord would desire for change to take place. Platt challenges the Church to step up and see the urgency in missions realizing that this is the way God designed the lost and dying world to hear the Good News of the Risen and Glorified Savior Jesus Christ.

In The Next Christians, Gabe Lyons presents how the next generation of Christians turns the tide by bringing the truth of the Gospel to bear on our changing, secular society. While many Christians are worrying about the growing disregard for Christians and deviation from our faith, Gabe holds an optimistic attitude and believes now we are restorers, and Christianity’s best day are yet to come

Gone is the first book in the Gone Series by Michael Grant. In the first book, everyone over fifteen disappears, and the city they live in, Perdido Beach, is enclosed by a barrier. Kids begin to develop powers, and some are beginning to go crazy. It’s known as Fallout Alley Youth Zone, or the FAYZ. Sam helps lead the scared kids. Students from the prestigious Coates Academy, where your rich parents sent you when you were ‘difficult,’ arrive. Diana is able to gauge powers; Caine and Sam are the only level fours, the highest she’s seen. Caine, a student at Coates, tries to take over, and Sam tries to stop him. A war breaks out between Sam’s side and Caine’s side and normals and freaks. Sam’s group eventually wins, but this war is far from over. To make matters worse, they’re still trapped in this barrier. But don’t worry, it’s only a FAYZ.

No doubt, you are aware the Church is in decline—both in membership and in its influence in the world, for the past several decades. Several key elements are missing in the lives of most Christians, which are rarely addressed in our church pulpits or in the books we read. How We Christians Miss The Boat unabashedly addresses these issues, with dead-on solutions, which will change and revolutionize the lives’ of all its readers.

In Okay For Now, written by Gary D. Schmidt, he wrote about certain people who talk about their rough times, and they say okay for now because things could always get worse. In the book, the characters best for the topic is Doug, Lil, and Lucas. They all struggle with something, but they keep it to themselves for the most part. Okay For Now means the characters feel good and Doug, Lil, and Lucas all feel okay at the moment.

Dean argues that if teenagers don’t have a firm grasp of core Christian principles and instead worship at what she calls “the Church of Benign Whatever-ism” or they don’t worship at all. She claims that it’s because youth pastors and other leaders have” watered down” the message. The first part of the book draws upon extensive research data to diagnose the problem that teens are being taught a brand of Christianity that is shallow at best. Dean lays the responsibility for the emptiness at the feet of Christian parents and churches.

I haven’t wondered what it would be like to be a sixteen-year-old kid and kill people for a living. This book explains it perfectly though. In the beginning of my book Ben (I will refer to him as Ben because we don’t know his real name yet and it is his fake name later in the book) goes into a different friend’s dad because he was told to. Later in the book Ben is given the task to kill the mayor of New York. Connecting The James Bond theme to Ben, Hit me with your best shot to Sam, and Domo arigato Mr. Roboto to Ben.

For this reading assignment, we were reading chapters 1, 2, and 3 I find it helpful to me to read, take notes and write out summaries as if this was two books. I will start off each time with Wes the author. As the book opens, we have Wes remembering a day that he and his older sister, Nikki, were playing a game. Wes caught her, and not knowing what to do, punched her in the face. Joy, Wes’ mother, was very upset because Wes had hit a “girl”, and sent him to his room.

This chapter is Jim Lynn’s call to the church to WAKE UP! He uses an organization of a factitious church complied by his many years of observation and personal experience (p. 221). The church is dying from the inside but a change is about to take place. In the beginning, the church was full of excitement, as with any new local body of believers. A building was built, a pastor was called, and attendance grew steadily. The church became a “rock” in the community offering many different programs. “As time went on, the church begin to lose its flavor. What started out with the freshness of new beginnings begin to fade, and the church began to decline in membership.” (p. 223) A number of the congregation became sick with many different diseases,

Toddlers have not gotten into the whole "appearance" thing yet at their age, so they generally do not understand why you have to wash their hair. Sometimes they do not like the action of water cascading over their heads or perhaps the shampoo gets in their eyes. They may even be a little hesitant about the water itself or the strange position in which you have them. What you will need to do is try different methods to find out what works for you and your toddler. You can make use of a visor type of arrangement that the toddler wears to keep the water out of their eyes. Or you can give them a towel or a cloth to place over their faces when you are rinsing their hair to keep all of it out of their faces and eyes. There is a shield that is available

a need with today’s young worshipers. The challenge is to bring young people into a sense of

The chapter starts with a story about a man in a church who wanted to start a group for divorced people. The pastor said it is a great idea. He asked the other man whether he would like a special section in the auditorium just for divorced people. The man said that would be good. The pastor said that he would have a section for liars, wife-beaters, alcoholics, and others. The man got the message. A healing church must resist the urge to categorize people. A pastor could play the gender or race card, pit the old verses the young, or rich verses the poor. Each could have their own section. “Yet, one of the first, giant steps away from love is to view a person as a representative or a statistic-something other than the unique individual God created.”

This course has had a great impact on my walk with Christ as well as my witness for Christ. I pastor a church and teach two classes and for me I thought that I was doing plenty. However this course has helped rekindle my passion for sharing Jesus Christ with people through personal evangelism. This paper will demonstrate what I have learned throughout this course.