{"product_id":"gardens-in-the-desert","title":"Gardens in the Desert","description":"Your church can thrive in this strange new world!\n\nMany church people and leaders feel like exiles in their own land. We are facing tremendous challenges. And, just as for those who came before us, the challenges are also opportunities. If we adapt to our new environment, as people and as the body of Christ.\n\nGardens in the Desert offers local and denominational church leaders a practical, inspired, scripture-rooted vision for how we can do this―how we can become God’s church now for God’s intended future.\n\nMichael Adam Beck and Ken Carter draw from Jeremiah 29 to provide wise guidance for leaders and churches seeking to adapt and thrive. Jeremiah’s imperatives resonate deeply today, compelling us to experiment, cultivate new relationships, prioritize faith-sharing with people of all ages, interact with others in humility, to “seek the wellbeing of the other,” and to move forward with confidence.\n\nThe chapters are brief and packed with practical ideas and instruction. The authors include ideas from leaders inside and outside the Church, offering multiple ways for leaders to see and understand what it means to be an adaptive leader and how to shape an adaptive church. The book is rich with lists, diagrams, illustrations, clarifying questions, and frameworks, making the material easy to grasp. It is an excellent resource to share with leadership teams at every level of the local church and in denominational settings.\n\nGardens in the Desert is for laity, leaders, and clergy who have been feeling lost, immobilized, powerless―as exiles―and who are ready to do something new.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1791033806\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1791033806.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Beck, Michael Adam|Carter Jr., Kenneth H.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516400607290,"sku":"DBV.1791033806.G","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1791033806-0.jpg?v=1783733386","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/gardens-in-the-desert","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}