Wayne Cordeiro. Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House, 2011. 170 pp. (Hardback).
Author Wayne Cordeiro should know about churches; he has helped to start more than 100 of them around the world, including New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, which has more than 14,500 in attendance each weekend.
The focus of the “irresistible church is not its irresistibility to people, but to God.” Cordeiro describes such a church as “one that is constantly aligning itself to gain God’s pleasure.”
The traits of a church that is irresistible to God, maintains Cordeiro, include hunger for the presence of God, remembering who she is (and not trying to copy other successful churches), living heart first and connecting everything to a soul, among others. The author explains each trait carefully and gives examples and illustrations but not a blueprint. Instead, Cordeiro urges readers to “discern the truths outlined in this book, then create the irresistible church that fits them and the assignment God has given them.”
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