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Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action Kindle Edition

by Kerry Shook (Author), Chris Shook (Author), Rick Warren (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition

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Maybe you’re troubled by the disconnect between the words you speak and the life you live. Maybe you’d like to see your faith become more active and life-changing in the world around you.

Pastor Kerry and Chris Shook felt that way. Even though their calling involved preaching and teaching, they became weary of sermons and words. They felt a gap between what they were saying and the needs of people around them.

They decided to do something about it.

Be the Message is their story of waking up to the gospel—not just a gospel of words and sermons, but the gospel of intention and action and people. They discovered a profound secret:

You Are the Gospel

As they explored the deeper truths of scripture, the verse “the word of God lives in you” came alive. Digging deeper, they discovered that the gospel message is really about life message—your life lived out. God’s call to you is simple:

Be the Message

Be the Message opens up a new world of understanding about what God calls you to. As the Shooks learned, the gospel is not about what you say. It’s about who you are and what you do—and how you can be God’s hands and feet in the world.

What would happen if we talked about God less and walked with God more?

Be the Message reminds us that Christianity was meant to be a faith of action, not a faith of words. Yet often we sacrifice doing something for the sake of talking about it. When we actually act out on our faith, we find our faith grows even more.

You can do more than nothing. People’s lives are changed when you allow your life to be the gospel to the world.

Living out the gospel in the world today is both simple and costly. The Shooks explore that paradox through biblical stories and their own experience of making a decision to live out the gospel in practical ways. Choosing to be the gospel changed their family, church and personal relationships with God.

How can it change your life?

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Kerry and Chris Shook founded Woodlands Church outside of Houston, Texas, in 1993. Since then the multi-campus church has grown to an attendance of over 18,000 people and is recognized for its ministries to the poor and powerless. Woodlands Church also has one of the largest fair-trade/direct-trade stores in the country with the goal of lifting generations out of poverty by empowering their lives with hope. Thousands of people in over 200 countries tune in weekly to Pastor Kerry’s televised broadcasts. The Shooks’ first book, One Month to Live, is a New York Times bestseller. Kerry and Chris have been married thirty years and have four grown children.

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FOREWORD BY RICK WARREN
Hudson Taylor once said, “All God’s giants have been weak people.” My favorite example of a giant is Jacob. Jacob was a deceiver, a manipulator, and even a schemer. He spent much of his life scheming to get his way, making one mess after another. Then he’d run from it. This was the pattern of his life: create a mess and run.

Then one night Jacob had an encounter with God. He literally wrestled with God and said, “I’m not going to let go until you bless me, God.” And God said, “Okay, I’ll bless your life.” The Lord grabbed Jacob’s thigh and pulled his hip out of socket. He touched him. God touched him at a point of strength and turned it into a weakness. The Bible says that from that point on, Jacob’s life was blessed, but he walked with a limp.

Kerry and Chris Shook know that instead of hiding and denying our weaknesses, we need to recognize them and learn from them. We need to learn to share them. We need to learn to glory in our weaknesses. If God is ever going to use us greatly, we’ll walk with a limp the rest of our lives. We can hear about people’s successes all day, and it will have absolutely no benefit to us. But when they start talking to us about their pain, all of a sudden they have our attention. Sharing our handicaps causes others to stop making excuses, to see the possibilities, and to rely on God.

If we’re going to have a Christlike ministry, that means sometimes other people are going to find healing in the wounds in our lives.

In Be the Message Kerry and Chris have written a powerful guide on how to stop hiding behind our images so we can truly discover and live our authentic life message. This book is not for those who seek to be impressed;it’s for those who want to have an impact on the lives of others. We can impress people by talking about our successes, but we’ll impact people when we admit our failures and weaknesses and point them to the God who can work a miracle out of our mess.

—Rick Warren
Pastor, Saddleback Church
Author, The Purpose Driven Life

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ WaterBrook (September 9, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 9, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Kerry Shook
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Kerry Shook
Senior Pastor, Woodlands Church
Author of New York Times Best-Seller One Month to Live - Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
Kerry Shook is one of today's most gifted communicators offering a clear, contemporary and creative teaching style. He is the senior pastor of Woodlands Church, one of the fastest-growing churches in America.
Kerry and his wife, Chris, founded Woodlands Church, formerly Fellowship of The Woodlands, in l993; and since then, the church has grown to 17,000 in average attendance each weekend. Now Woodlands Church is one church in many locations with its Fellowship campus in The Woodlands outside of Houston and satellite campuses online, in the Humble/Kingwood/Atascocita area, Tomball and its newest location in Katy.
Kerry believes that church should be engaging and fun, calling it "The Best Hour of Your Week." He strives to eliminate the barriers of boredom, unfriendliness and fear that keep people from experiencing not just religion but a relationship with Jesus Christ. His messages are relevant, and his illustrations memorable.
Chris is the Director of Missions and Women's Ministry at Woodlands Church. Her missions' work has touched thousands of under-resourced people locally and in numerous countries around the world. Her Women's Ministry is one of the largest in the country providing fellowship, worship and Bible study opportunities to hundreds of women each week.
Kerry Shook Ministries is a worldwide television ministry that broadcasts to a local, national and international audience. Pastor Kerry and Chris can now be seen by millions in 50 states and over 200 countries worldwide.
Kerry and Chris' first book and New York Times Best-Seller, One Month to Live - Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life, was released in February 2008. The book encourages readers to face their own mortality and live life to the fullest. The OneMonthtoLive.com Web site supports total life fitness and allows people to take the 30-Day Challenge. In addition, the One Month to Live Nationwide Church Growth Campaign is designed to help pastors unleash their church's potential.
Kerry and Chris have been married twenty-five years and have four children.
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KerryShook.org iTunes Channel "Kerry Shook"
OneMonthtoLive.com Twitter.com/KerryShook
WoodlandsChurch.tv You Tube "KerryShookMinistries"
live.woodlandschurch.tv Facebook "WoodlandsChurch"
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David Mcclain

Very insightful book

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My men’s group at church is reading this book and it has led to some intense and powerful discussions. Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017

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This book challenges us to give up control and be God's hands and feet. Follow His holy disturbance and get involved. I am excited about doing this and need to make sure I don't allow things to make me not take the first step.

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This book was one one of the catalysts that changed my perspective on my relationship with God and his son Jesus Christ and set me on a path I cannot change. It is well written, articulate and yet so personal. Thank you Kerry and Chris for helping me understand how to "Be the Message".

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We're called to Disciple others. Matt. 28: ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2016

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We're called to Disciple others. Matt. 28:19. This book speaks personally on how your life should be investing into others by sharing the gospel with those Jesus had put in your path. Doing life together makes "Being the Message " so valuable as you disciple others. A must read.

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Wonderful bible study for individuals of any stage of spiritual maturity.

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Very good to read

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Being the message is a challenge. Chris and Kerry walked me through the complex maze that stands before me. I find encouragement in the many stories and examples.

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Great condition! Thank you

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016

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You always wonder if the book will be in the condition that it is said it is. The book met my expectations. Great condition! Thank you!