Live Sent: You Are a Letter [Paperback]

Jason Dukes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2011

Our everyday lives are more than just a story being written. God created each one of us to receive and send a message—intentionally — into the lives of the people we do life with daily. That’s how love is demonstrated, how relationships happen, and how people find the abundant life as they are intended to find it. Pastor and speaker Jason C. Dukes helps readers see how giving yourself away in the daily means being to other people the letter of God’s love that has been written on our hearts. Our community needs us, and our world needs us . . . to live sent.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jason Dukes is a learner, dreamer, teacher, and church planter. Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jason has been on an amazing journey for the last five years while planting Westpoint Church in the Orlando, Florida, area. Westpoint’s local community of faith focuses on being the church, doing life together, and giving herself away; and emphasizes “living sent”—being a letter from God communicating His love and hope in the message of our daily lives among all whom we encounter. Jason has also been involved with the creation and launch of the Restoration Concept, House Blend Cafe, the Reproducing Churches network, and the Church of West Orange. Jason and his wife, Jen, have five children and live in Orlando.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: New Hope Publishers (April 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596693150
• ISBN-13: 978-1596693159
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #533,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jason C Dukes married his wife Jen in August 1998. They live in central Florida with their six children, Caleb, Katey, Abby, Ella, Noah, and Laura. You can read more about Jason at his blog (www.JasonCDukes.com).

He is a follower and a leader, a husband and a father, a son and a brother, a learner and a teacher, a writer and a dreamer. He really likes dating his wife, digs Duke basketball, cheers for Jeff Gordon with his sons, and likes to dance with his daughters. Along with an amazing team, his wife and he cultivated and watched blossom a local church expression known as WestpointChurch.org.

Some other adventures he's involved with are SENTKids.com, HouseBlendCafe.com, ReproducingChurches.com, and theChurchofWestOrange.com. Currently, he is learning how to love his wife, encouraging his kids, living sent with his family, trying to equip well with the pastoral team of WestpointChurch.org, working on a few writing projects, launching a "conversation company," and craving an apple fritter from Donut King. :-)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Live Sent - really the only way to be "the church" November 21, 2009

By C. Miller

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I recently received a copy of Live Sent - you are a letter to review for the Viral Bloggers program. I was struck by the message by the first chapter. It definitely has a Neil Cole, organic church feel to it, which I loved, but it really goes much more in depth than that. Jason Dukes challenges us to really change how we think about the words "church", "discipleship", and "evangelism." He really challenged me to rethink how I frame those words. Even though I would consider myself fairly progressive and emerging, it still really challenged me in my life. My wife was so excited to hear about it while I read it, that we read a few chapters out loud together to encourage each other.
This book really is a game changer for people. I have been looking for something like this to bridge a conversational void I have with many people. I think Jason puts his thinking in action and gives real direction on how to be neighborly, like Jesus, and missional. Not that he prescribes a recipe for success, but for me, a recipe for the confusing insanity that the Sunday driven "church" makes.
He helped me to make sense of much knowledge I already had between my ears and realize how to put in more into action. I would suggest this book to anyone who is desiring movement in their faith community, or who is really frustrated with the church as she exists. Jason Dukes gave me a reason to believe that we really can be the "church" without putting so much focus of being the church on Sunday morning for the "big show."

Chad Miller
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars What a concept September 11, 2009

By R. Bruce Young

Format:Paperback

This idea is so simple and yet so powerful. If we as Americans and others around the globe would see things this way what a difference we could make in our communities and our world. This author really makes us stop and think.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An Apt Metaphor for Christian Life June 30, 2011

By George H. Guthrie

Format:Paperback

Years ago I had the privilege of teaching Jason Dukes when he attended Union University. In an Advanced Greek class his exceptional analytical skills and knack for crafting clear, creative sermon outlines (we traveled the exegetical road from translation all the way to how we might communicate the text) stuck out as unique. Now the tables are turned and Jason teaches me in the pages of this book. Weaving an extended metaphor, he uses "Letter" imagery to help us think in fresh ways about what it means to be Christ-followers in community. The metaphor is especially apt, for letters have primarily to do with communication and relationships, two key dynamics at the heart of the biblical vision of what it means to be "church." Time and again in these pages I was helped out of "thinking boxes" into fresh trails for reflection. I highly recommend this book for both church leaders and learners generally. Its incarnational message can certainly help us morph into living letters (2 Cor. 3:2-3) the world desperately needs.