{ "item_title" : "Dangers of Jumping from Church to Church", "item_author" : [" Adama Segbedji "], "item_description" : "Four churches in three years. A fifth on the shortlist. And a reason for every one of them that sounded perfectly sound at the time.Just over half of all churchgoers will change churches at least once as adults, and a great many of them will do it again, and again, always leaving before the roots go down. Dangers of Jumping from Church to Church is written to that person, by a pastor who has watched too many believers arrive full of hope and leave full of reasons.Pastor Adama Segbedji goes back to the Hebrew behind Psalm 92:13 and finds that the word for planted means transplanted: a sapling lifted and set in place by somebody else's hands, once, and then left alone to root. From there he traces the wanderer from Cain to Demas, and on through the early church and the monasteries that had a name for him, lays out what a believer loses every time he leaves, and then walks along every exit door in the building and closes it: the usher who was rude, the member who hurt you, the sermon that felt aimed, the pastor who let you down, the teaching you disagreed with, the gift nobody used, the voice that said God told you to move, and the verses people quote on the way out. He also turns the mirror round, because the man who has left four churches has rarely considered that four churches had to put up with him.This is not a lecture on church membership. It is a warning, given with warmth, to the restless believer, the online viewer who stopped going, the critic who has found fault with every church in town, and the spouse whose partner keeps moving. It says plainly when leaving is right, including the controlling church no one should stay in, and how to leave well. It speaks to the husband or wife who keeps being taken along to the next church, the housebound and the shift worker, the student and the newly married, the tired worker who needs a rest rather than a new church, and it goes underneath every move to the restless heart that travels with you. And it shows the way back for anyone who has gone.If you are sitting on the edge of the bed this Sunday with your phone in your hand, read this before you go.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/630/9798166300539_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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