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The Conversion of the Church

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Without a brotherly, sisterly fellowship a true genuine christian cannot live. A christian always want to be fellowship with GOD first and then with his or her fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Where could else a christian can be? Author walked and showed us the path how a fellowship in Jesus Christ can change lives of people in these modern days. All technology took us so far from God, so we need someone to tell us to spend time with GOD and get closer to him through fellowship.

all of us trying to be genius in some thing in our life. but the author of the book given an opportunity to become genius in christian fellowship one another. he used simple sentences, simple words, simple pen style and simple approach about fellowship. he aimed at different people who wants to know what a fellowship can do in their lives which is ignored by many of us every day. people want to be left alone isolated, but author proved that will not take us anywhere close to God.

Christian faith is all about fellowship. You fellowship with God which will make you fellowship with others in a friendly way. Fellowship really changes everything. Author beautifully showed why fellowship is so important in our lives and how it can strengthen our relationship with God. It is really to see lot of examples in which author made a good point about fellowship. No one get ever tired of knowing these facts, so much in it in this little book.

As a child, I was raised by parents who were definitely preachers of the ways of "fellowship" and how important it is in religious communities. This book follows the kind of lines that my parents tried to teach my brothers and me. It focuses on bringing Christ's values to religions of today and how much they could benefit by understanding how important strong fellowship is. I was very appreciative of the note pages. That is always an interesting concept and as a person that, again taught by my parents, writes down ideas as I read, this was very cool. I liked this book and I believe others interested in learning and understanding the benefits of fellowship.

In his book "The Conversion of the Church: The Genius of Fellowship" by Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, the author takes a deep look at the way Christian churches need to change in order to serve the people as they were intended to do. He believes they need to become more Christ like by focusing more on fellowship and the needs of the congregation. Reading this book, I took advantage of the pages that are included for journaling about what I read and found myself thinking about the church I attend and my feelings about it.

Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker's book "The Conversion of the Church: The Genius of Fellowship" was very interesting to read. In the book, the author tells how he feels the church should be more like Christ - more forgiving, judge people less and be more open to meeting its parishioners. The book stresses the point that church is not just a building but a feeling of fellowship of people. A wonderful book that will make you think about your own church and the fellowship (or lack of fellowship) that exists as you reexamine your own feelings about religion.

"The Conversion of the Church: The Genius of Fellowship" by Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker makes you stop and think about how you feel about your own religious beliefs and your thoughts about fellowship. In the book Reverend Shoemaker puts thoughts, ideas and the fundamental principles of religion out there for you to think about. He explains how the Church should be less judgmental and more compassionate, that it should be more "Christlike". Throughout the book are pages for you to write down your thoughts and feelings as you are reading. If you are interested in religion and spirituality, this is a book you will enjoy.

Author Tuchy really went inside each and every church virtually and examined what the churches are missing today. He showed us we all lost our earlier love of mutual fellowship. Not just shaking hands, but help each other, lend each other hands to lift each and everyone up in every situation. Praying together, fasting together, visiting each other, supporting each other - all steps the author shown in his book of true fellowship between christians. I could not find even a single contradictory statements between each one. Perfectly aligned.

So many times I have heard people saying I go to a certain big church and something. But, church is not a building, it is a fellowship of saints of God. There is church. The author really shown us what a real fellowship and how the church as group of believers need to be converted to understand this. How as a believer we fellowship with everyone and serve the main purpose of serving God not ministers or pastors in the church. The author peeled off the veil between believers and church.

There is nothing new under the sun. The core things that we struggle with today have been struggled with since the creation of man. Sure, it may get repackaged under new names (postmodernism is really the new existentialism), but it is the same thing.

And I believe this book is proof of that. What Shoemaker outlines (again thanks to Palmieri) is human nature. The Conversion of the Church should be just as useful to people today as it was when it was originally published.