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Megashift The Meaning of Life The Open Church The 2 Minute Miracle Cotton Tales
Megashift
The Best News Since Year One... * Miracles are exploding around the world. Resurrections have happened in 52 countries recently, not near-death experiences, but the real thing. Other miracles documented in MEGASHIFT are equally astonishing, and they are taking place mostly through people like you. Miracles such as * cancer cured * paralysis lifted * rebellious children turned from drugs, alcohol and runaway situations * powerful answers to simple prayers.
- A sparkling new form of the Christian faith has arisen to advance this growth. Traditional, clergy-centered Christianity, with its expensive buildings and its performances for spectators, cannot contain this grass-roots move of God. So the church is beginning to find ways to pour itself into small, fast-growing, open fellowships that bring:
- far more power and freedom
- greatly expanded team support, 24/7
- victory over even your worst long term problems
- and a stronger experience of the presence of God. This book can turn you into a key Christian leader with full authority to transform people and start your own home-based, life-changing circles of power where people are allowed to speak, interact, and form the deepest friendships of their lives. Your adventure has begun!
From the Inside Flap
Brace Yourself for a Total Makeover of Planet Earth The world is changing hands - for the last time. It is not a mere shift in power, but a total transformation in how things happen. For centuries, tyrants and generals have swept across the Earth, crushing and raising empires. But 2003 probably saw the last war of massed armies. Military technology can now fry a million field troops in days.
In fact, all our centralized power structures are morphing into something else. Traditional, top-down systems are turning into gigantic, bottom-up co-ops.
The driving institutions of society are the family, religion, government, economy, military, science & technology, agriculture, business & industry, education, media & communication, and law- plus ancillary fields like medicine, sports, entertainment and the arts.
All of their structures have taken major hits in our lifetime. All (except law) have been decentralized, demystified, and democratized. All of them are about to be overwhelmed and put in vastly better shape by a kind of power you probably wrote off years ago: the spirit.
The Great Game is all about power and control. Till now, the main weapons in that game were knowledge, wealth, and force (also known as technology, money and violence). But now, as you read this book, you will see the unfolding of the main event, the great transfer of power. Time is up, and God is taking over - with a little help form His friends.
The new world force is an alliance between the Holy Spirit and our own human spirits. The main facets of this force are love, truth, wisdom, and a miracle-working spiritual power that has nothing to do with guns, gold or governments.
Until our generation, this force was held back or shot down by friendly fire - the traditional church. To be a Christian was to be subject to the stained-glass hierarchy and absorbed into its endless programs.
Now there's a new ball game in town, and it has started in the ninth inning. So pull up a chair and prepare to be astonished. Or better yet, grab a uniform and get into the action. Welcome to the endgame of God. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Jim Rutz is the leading U.S. spokesman for open Christianity, a startling innovation on the traditional church that is laying a whole new basis for civilization.
This megashift to a new, responsible society is attracting thousands in North America who want a lot more from their faith than a warm pew, a commercial-grade sermon, Nashville-level music, and a Brownie-point religion that may or may not get you into Heaven, depending on whether God grades on a curve.
Rutz's open Christianity solves the three biggest problems of the church, he says: "We've gotten rid of all the expensive buildings and paid pastors. Plus, you never have to listen to another sermon. This is the next step up from Protestantism."
As the author of the 1992 best-seller The Open Church (230,000 sold, counting all editions), Rutz appeared on more than 80 TV and radio stations, up to and including TBN and CBN (Pat Robertson on The 700 Club). He is chairman of Open Church Ministries and has been a full-time writer for 31 years.
Sales of his newest book, MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power, could pass half a million and create demand for well over a hundred interviews. It's a shocker. Among other things, Rutz's research has found 51 countries where God has raised people from the dead, mostly in the last 15 years (all footnoted, some with photos). These are not near-death experiences, but bona fide resurrections of corpses.
Rutz (rhymes with klutz, he says) has an endless stream of astounding but documented reports of varied miracles from around the world. Your audience will be spellbound. But far more important, Rutz and his house-church friends are offering your fans a doable new 24/7 lifestyle where lives get straightened out, long-standing problems get solved, wimps turn into world-changers, and everyone experiences the strong presence of God.
The miracles are being done by ordinary people worldwide--millions of them. For example, China already has over 110 million Christians who are authorized to take power roles in the church. And since 2001, Rutz has taught former Hindus across India who have now planted perhaps over 10,000 house churches. The revolution is headed this way, and he is ready to tell your audience how they can change their lives by starting or joining a family-like, interactive, highly participatory team.
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The Meaning of Life
I have read Megashift a few times and it is excellent. Miracles, healing, dead raising testimonies with documentation. Information worth its weight in gold, silver, and precious stones.
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The Meaning of Life.... will be an even bigger gold mine than Megashift.
The Open Church
This book can change your life both in this present age and for eternity to come.
I believe that if you read this book, your worship and fellowship could be opened up in a very powerful way - you will really be refreshed and grow in spiritual maturity if you can apply some of the principles in this book. Don't let your spiritual journey grow stagnant; grow in Christian maturity as Christ intended all of us to, you're not a layperson (laymen) and never were meant to be, we are all called to something much more than bench warmers on Sunday morning - we're not called to be part of an audience but rather an active part of the Church body... now, how do we define "Church" and "body" and who are you in the Church... read the book and find out.
This could very possibly be one of the most profound writings in a very straightforward address to the church body. I think this book can be likened to Luther's standing up to the principles of Christianity to reform the church... here likewise, is a man writing to us on how we can reform our churches again and renew our relationship with God as brothers and Sisters in Christ. James (the Author) strips away the layers of tradition that seem to have created a separation between clergy and laypeople in today's modern churches. James offers us a view of how me might establish a more authentic worship and fellowship as we might have experienced had we been part of the early church as described in the book of Acts.
Read this book and get a refreshed view and even a revival in your own heart for the Church and your place in the body... This book will inspire you and renew your faith in the purpose and unity of the people that make up the Church of today.
Philip Newberry
The 2 Minute Miracle
The 2 Minute Miracle is a road map to a hidden treasure so powerful that you'll wonder how you've lived without it.
You will learn how to release God's power by speaking blessings into someone's life. As your words begin to change lives rather miraculously, your life will change too!
You will begin to see deeper meaning in your life, hidden potential released, major roadblocks removed, and seemingly impossible situations turned around.
The 2 Minute Miracle is your key to unlocking the storehouse of blessings that God has for you today.
About the Author
M. Lynn Reddick is president of Open Church Ministries, an international church planting and equipping organization. He and his wife oversee a network of over 100 open churches. They have conducted workshops on the spoken blessing throughout North America, Europe, India, and the Middle East.
Cotton Tales
M. Lynn Reddick, author of The 2 Minute Miracle, serves up a rollicking collection of stories about growing up in rural Georgia and his various (mis)adventures elsewhere. From dilemma's in making silk purses out of sow's ears to painful lessons in humility, these stories prove that, when it's all said and done, laughter is indeed the best medicine.
About the Author
M. Lynn Reddick, Ph.D., is a nationally known motivational speaker and church leadership trainer. He and his wife, Linda, travel extensively throughout the world conducting seminars on open meeting principles, small group dynamics, and life-changing blessings. His thirty-eight year pastoral experience was preparation for today's wider ministry as president of Open Church Ministries. Lynn is also president of Covenant Bible Institute in Portal, Georgia.