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Where Two Or More Are Gathered : A New Church for the 21st Century

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Want to read a truly different book on religion and spirituality? This is it. ?Where Two or More are Gathered? is really two books in one. The first half is autobiographical, a real page turner. I can?t wait for the movie! Any reader would enjoy this part. The second half is a rich examination of mainly the Christian church, why it works and why it doesn?t. The author goes on to map the progression of church evolution leading to her idea of a New Church. If you?re a spiritual seeker, especially one searching for a church that fits your needs, this book is a helpful read. You may gain a better understanding of why your church doesn?t work for you and what to do about it. Her frank, no holes barred approach is refreshing compared to a dry, scholarly study of Christianity. Harold does a fine job of expressing her idea of what Jesus meant for his followers to do. I wish every religious leader would read this book.

First Mathew Fox, now Ellie Harold. What a beautiful book Ellie Harold has written. From her deep truth and experience as a minister and a woman with a gutsy pioneering spirit, Ellie gives us a map on how to grow up spiritually. We don't have to be alone or to continue the religion we find stifles our creativity and life force. "Where Two or More Are Gathered" is a fascinating challenge to all of us who are looking for a better way to be with ourselves and with God. Whether you are a minister, a congragant, a scholar, or are searching for a new way to live, this book is exciting and satisfying reading. I appreciate the authors revealing of her own life, struggles, and victories. She rightly does not give us the answers, she asks the questions that get us to think and feel and to breathe more deeply. Ellie Harold also uses her congragants to speak in their own voices, telling their experience in doing their work and finding their truest and best way to evolve as human beings on a spiritual journey.

This was a very emotional book for me to read as it was connected to a part of my own past. I cried , and I laughed. Even though I don't agree with alot of things that were said in the book. I did feel the writers truth in what she wrote as I too lived in that long ago place in Marietta, Georgia.