WHOLE LIFE TRANSFORMATION:
BECOMING THE CHANGE YOUR CHURCH NEEDS
“After living without any expectation of change before going to heaven, I found out that life change is possible – and that you and your transformation are the program your church needs.”
—Excerpt from Whole Life Transformation by Keith Meyer
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GO FROM NORMAL LIFE…
What expectations do you consider “normal” for your life as a pastor?
- Workaholism and long hours at the office?
- Measuring your success by the number of people in your congregation?
- Always feeling under pressure to perform well and live up to the expectations of others?
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These qualities once described Keith Meyer’s life, and the lives of the pastors he knew. He saw the disconnect between his pressured lifestyle and Christ’s call to take up an “easy yoke,” but Keith didn’t think there was any other way to minister.
What’s more, though he was trying to help others grow spiritually, he didn’t really believe that life as Jesus exemplified it—a life of true transformation and not merely sin management—was possible for anyone (himself included) besides a few spiritual giants in Scripture.
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…TO ABUNDANT LIFE
And then he discovered—and, even more, experienced—the truth:
- Ministry doesn’t have to be harried and frantic.
- Success is not measured in numbers.
- True transformation at the core of who we are is possible.
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His peace-filled, Spirit-led life today as a pastor, speaker, and leader in spiritual formation is evidence of the truth he uncovered. And this book is his story of the personal and professional changes he and his partners in ministry underwent, and the growth of a whole congregation that ensued. Sharing his failures with humility, he walks us with him out of the “normal” life and into the true, abundant life Christ has for us. New metaphors for ministry, stories of the change in believers that comes from life-on-life mentoring and discipleship, and evidence of Keith’s own relational growth—from family healing to honestly learning to love his enemies—will encourage and inspire you to begin your own walk out of the “normal” and into the abundant.
Your life can be different than it is. Let one ministry leader who’s living this truth show you how.
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