Deepening Your Conversation with God

Ben Patterson

Bethany House Publishers, 1999 - Church group work - 173 pages

The Life-Changing Power of Prayer for Pastors and Churches





Many church leaders are tempted to think the presenting problem at church is the real problem--that if there were only more money, a new building, or a few more people, ministry would take off. Deepening Your Conversation With God is a call to see ministry as a spiritual issue--not merely a logistical one.



Deepening Your Conversation With God is not, however, a book on the technique of prayer. Rather, it is about the grandeur that arrives in approaching God through this blessed conversation. It will make you hunger and thirst to experience the God who has chosen to allow His creation to know Him.



As author Ben Patterson writes, "I'm not into prayer, I am into God!" By becoming spiritual realists and understanding the call and consequences of committing a ministry to prayer, your life and church will be on a life-changing path supported by the power of the God with whom you interact.

About the author

Ben Patterson is campus pastor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He has served churches in New Jersey and California and was dean of the chapel at Hope College in Michigan before going to Westmont College. He is the author of Deepening Your Conversation with God and is a back-page columnist for Leadership Journal and a contributor to Christianity Today.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Deepening Your Conversation with God; Library of leadership development; Volume 7 of The pastor's soul series
• Author: Ben Patterson
• Editor: David L. Goetz
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers, 1999
• ISBN: 155661974X, 9781556619748
• Length: 173 pages