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Everyone Belongs to God

Discovering the Hidden Christ

by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

How can Christians represent the love of Christ to their neighbors (let alone people in foreign countries) in an age when Christianity has earned a bad name from centuries of intolerance and cultural imperialism? Is it enough to love and serve them? Can you win their trust without becoming one of them? Can you be a missional Christian without a church? This provocative book, based on a recently uncovered collection of 100-year-old letters from a famous pastor to his son-in-law, a missionary in China, will upend pretty much everyone’s assumptions about what it means to give witness to Christ. | read more»

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Who is Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt?

Blumhardt, a Lutheran pastor in Germany in the late 1800s, was quite critical of Christian missionary efforts because they concerned themselves with spreading Christianity on a Western pattern, instead of representing the reality of God's reign. | read more »

Read an Excerpt From 'Everyone Belongs to God': Keep the Kingdom in View

"The greatest obstacle to the kingdom of God, therefore, is not our social conditions but is in us and in our clever solutions." | read more »

Foreword: Your Gospel Is Too Small

"Our gospel has been too small. It is, indeed, too small a thing to think that the hope of the world rests in our ability to recruit others into a religion which has too often made us morally worse." -- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | read more »

Study Guide for 'Everyone Belongs to God'

Challenge yourself to expand your vision of the gospel with this guide. | read more »
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