How open is our culture to recreation and sports? The popular culture today is saturated with recreation and sports. The Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, X-Games, Iron Man events, the Final Four in college basketball, and the playoff series in professional basketball capture the imaginations of millions of people in America each time they are held. The questions are, according to general editor John Garner, where is the church and how is the church using these tools to reach people, and will the church see the opportunity to use recreation and sports as ministry tools?

The fact is, most churches are not reaching the postmodern culture and are being ignored by an increasingly non-Christian American culture because people see no relevance to their lives. What they do see relevance in is re-creative leisure; they pursue it at break-neck speed and often at great costs. Somehow the church must learn to "capture the imagination" of a world that is passing it by. If the church can capture the imaginations of people, it can get their attention, can gain access to their minds, and can reach the heart with the message of the love of God.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	314
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Liberty University Press
Fecha de Publicación	2017-07-06
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.66" pulgadas
Descripción de Edición	Additional Chap
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Cristiano

Garner, John C.

JOHN GARNER, a graduate of Mississippi College and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has published numerous articles, contributed chapters to ministry oriented resources, and has written extensively on recreation and sports ministry. He has served churches in Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee and is a conference speaker, lecturer, and an adjunct and online professor in sports ministry. John has served 18 years as the consultant and national sports ministry leader at LifeWay Christian Resources in Nashville and lives in Franklin, Tennessee.