Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality

Michael Spencer

Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 2010 - Religion - 229 pages

Have you left the church in search of Jesus? 
 
Studies show that one in four young adults claim no formal religious affiliation, and church leaders have long known that this generation is largely missing on Sunday morning. Hundreds of thousands of “church leavers” have had a mentor and pastor, however, in Michael Spencer, known to blog readers as the Internet Monk. Spencer guided a vast online congregation in its search for a more honest and more immediate practice of Christian faith.
 
Spencer discovered the truth that church officials often miss, which is that many who leave the church do so in an attempt to find Jesus. For years on his blog Spencer showed de-churched readers how to practice their faith without the distractions of religious institutions. Sadly, he died in 2010. But now that his last message is available inMere Churchianity, you can benefit from the biblical wisdom and compassionate teaching that always have been hallmarks of his ministry.  
 
WithMere Churchianity, Spencer’s writing will continue to point the disenchanted and dispossessed to a Jesus-shaped spirituality. And along the way, his teachings show how you can find others who will go with you on the journey.

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User Review  - Scott - Goodreads

While there's a lot with which I disagree, Spencer writes compelling about following Jesus and mundane, everyday discipleship

Review: Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality

User Review  - Jim - Goodreads

I wanted to like this book more than I did. What a title! The title - and the fact that I picked it up dirt cheap when Borders was going out of business are the reason that I read it in the first ...

About the author

During the years when he was blogging as the Internet Monk (www.internetmonk.com), Michael Spencer was followed by hundreds of thousands of readers. He offered a lifeline to the spiritually dispossessed in his speaking, teaching, and writing. Michael graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College and earned a master’s degree in theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. For seventeen years, he taught Bible and served as campus minister at a Christian school in Kentucky. Michael passed away in April 2010.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
• Author: Michael Spencer
• Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 2010
• ISBN: 0307459179, 9780307459176
• Length: 229 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth; Religion / Christian Theology / Christology