Through the creation and publication of a series of sermons, pastors can develop powerful works that not only nourish their immediate congregations but can reach a wider audience as well. Publishing these sermons into a book can be an enriching endeavor that allows you to further expand on key topics while sharing personal insights – becoming an invaluable resource both now and for members to come in your faith community.
The DIGNITY Lens is a transformative, comprehensive set of seven strategies to look deeply at our institutional challenges and create means of bridging the gap between our aspirations and our current reality, thereby becoming more authentic and creating sustainable change. That’s a huge task! And it probably won’t happen overnight. Where do you start? While DIGNITY: Seven Strategies for Creating Authentic Community (2020), introduces you to these tenets and provides great context for this work, The DIGNITY Lens Workbook provides facilitated exercises and tools to engage with this work and to make progress in narrowing the gap.
The themes set forth in Romans 12, where believers are called to present themselves to God as living sacrifices, drive the conversation in this book. We are summoned to the altar of God’s presence through the finished work of Christ on our behalf. The Christian life is presenting ourselves to Him every moment, of every day, all the days of our life. This is what I am calling, “Life on the Altar.”
The pattern is repeated again and again throughout Scripture, yet is seldom (if ever) heard from our pulpits. Because I have found alliteration to be a great help to my memory, I began to assign alliterated words to this pattern of discipleship that seems to be repeated in Scripture.
This book is designed to walk you through the pattern used in Scripture that can be replicated in your life and in your church.