{"id":1260,"date":"2014-09-29T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-09-29T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:07:24","slug":"setting-your-church-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/09-29-2014\/setting-your-church-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Your Church Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how church members get along so well with each other and don&#8217;t fight amongst themselves. Well, we know that they should be living like that. In fact, churches can be notorious for back-biting and arguments. This isn&#8217;t something Christians are proud of, but it does occur. In <em>Setting Your Church Free<\/em>, Neil T. Anderson and Charles Mylander present a Biblical way to handle conflicts within congregations.<\/p>\n<p>The book outlines what can lead to conflicts, and gives a plan to work as a church body towards eliminating the problems. Though we often blame pride as the cause for conflicts, there are spiritual forces are work, ones that want to see the work of the church fail. It is this aspect that is addressed in detail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Setting Your Church Free<\/em> is written in a format that can be used by congregations in a corporate way. Explaining how different problems appear, and what they can result in helps church leaders identify what is happening. Then, they can use the steps given to work on resolving the issues.<\/p>\n<p>The book, though easy to understand, contains a lot of information. It may not be a book that you can read straight through one time and start using what it says. Though I am well aware of churches having discord, I now have a new perspective on what is really going on with these problems.<\/p>\n<p>I received a free copy of <em>Setting Your Church Free<\/em> from Bethany House in exchange for this review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how church members get along so well with each other and don&#8217;t fight amongst themselves. Well, we know that they should be living like that. In fact, churches can be notorious for back-biting and arguments. This isn&#8217;t something Christians are proud of, but it does occur. In Setting Your Church Free, Neil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}