Engage! offers church leaders crucial insights into one of the most important characteristics of being a disciple: engaging and loving our neighbors through the building of relationships.
Maynard writes that our churches sit uncomfortably empty while people sit at their kitchen tables, bemoaning that they don’t have any real friends. People going through difficult times have no one to give them support, newcomers to a community find it difficult to meet people, and neighbors pass each other by with only a nod of acknowledgment.
People are looking for relationships. The mission field is ripe for the harvest. How can the church support the development of authentic, inclusive, and transformational relationships? After all, we are at the very center of our being, a relational faith.
Engage! was written to help develop that relational faith.
