Books
LIVE RUTLESS.
Do you feel like the best spiritual moments of your life are in the past rather than the present? In this book, Dr. Jonathan Winningham declares the following: “Spiritual moments or events in the past were given to produce momentum in our faith, not to function as monuments”. The tendency of believers and churches that have a rich spiritual heritage is to play it safe over time. Dr. Winningham confronts this reality that our spiritual life can be littered with idols and life-vests from the past that provide a current sense of false security. This is a “rut” that will lead to a powerless life and an irrelevant ministry in a world that desperately needs to witness God’s present-day transformation in our lives. This dire condition calls for radical reformation only God can make in us.
Living Rutless is a life choice made in the heart of one believer at a time. It isn’t a group project but rather is a personal spiritual conversation requiring total honesty and transparency before God. Believe you don’t have ruts in your life? Think again. Through LIVE RUTLESS, Jonathan invites us to abandon the ruts and wholeheartedly experience the higher ground of a contagious relationship with Jesus Christ.
SERVE UNITED
Serve United is a book for pastors in churches that desire genuine unity within the center of their ministry leadership. Included within this book is a biblical basis for shared-leadership found within both the Old and New Testaments of the Scripture. This text includes ministry tools like a spiritual assessment questionnaire and preaching/teaching messages that pastors can use to recruit future ministry leaders. Pastoral leaders should not be expected to serve alone and this text provides the rationale for developing partners in ministry.
Text includes:
1. Bible study textual review
2. Focus on qualities of serving
3. Spiritual gifts test
4. Discussion Questions for personal and group study
5. Model Constitution and Bylaws
6. Student Pre- and Post-Study knowledge assessment tool
7. Greek language review of pastor and deacon virtues
8. Five preaching/teaching outlines created to complement the book study
9. Bibliographical information for quotes used from over 30 published texts on the role of deacons
10. Clearly stated checklist for men desiring to serve as a deacon.