Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel


By returning to what we once had…
We can recover what we once enjoyed.
 
In the early centuries Christianity was an explosive, viral movement that spread by word of mouth. Persecution could not stop it. In fact, it often helped to spread it.
 
But today, the gospel is no longer spreading like wildfire throughout the Western world. Slowly, Christianity has morphed into something much different…a stable institutionalized religion that no longer grips us with the excitement and spirituality of the early years.
 
Ross Rohde believes that this excitement and passion can be recaptured. In Viral Jesus he uses examples from the Bible and today to explore how we can return to our roots and once again enjoy the excitement, simple spirituality, and explosive growth of early Christianity.

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Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel


By returning to what we once had…
We can recover what we once enjoyed.
 
In the early centuries Christianity was an explosive, viral movement that spread by word of mouth. Persecution could not stop it. In fact, it often helped to spread it.
 
But today, the gospel is no longer spreading like wildfire throughout the Western world. Slowly, Christianity has morphed into something much different…a stable institutionalized religion that no longer grips us with the excitement and spirituality of the early years.
 
Ross Rohde believes that this excitement and passion can be recaptured. In Viral Jesus he uses examples from the Bible and today to explore how we can return to our roots and once again enjoy the excitement, simple spirituality, and explosive growth of early Christianity.

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Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel

Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel

by Ross Rohde
Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel

Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel

by Ross Rohde

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By returning to what we once had…
We can recover what we once enjoyed.
 
In the early centuries Christianity was an explosive, viral movement that spread by word of mouth. Persecution could not stop it. In fact, it often helped to spread it.
 
But today, the gospel is no longer spreading like wildfire throughout the Western world. Slowly, Christianity has morphed into something much different…a stable institutionalized religion that no longer grips us with the excitement and spirituality of the early years.
 
Ross Rohde believes that this excitement and passion can be recaptured. In Viral Jesus he uses examples from the Bible and today to explore how we can return to our roots and once again enjoy the excitement, simple spirituality, and explosive growth of early Christianity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616386368
Publisher: Charisma Media
Publication date: 02/07/2012
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 727 KB

About the Author


Ross Rohde is a house church planter and house church planting coach in the San Francisco Bay Area. A missionary for nearly twenty years, he has worked as a consultant and speaker on the effects of postmodernism on the European church. He has been married for thirty years to his wife Margi. They are the parents of three daughters and grandparents to four grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword Neil Cole xi

Preface xv

Introduction: Following Jesus Into a Viral Movement xix

Chapter 1 What a Viral Jesus Movement Looks Like 1

Chapter 2 Stability and Control in a Viral Jesus Movement 13

Chapter 3 Supernaturalism in a Viral Jesus Movement 29

Chapter 4 The Early Church: The First Viral Jesus Movement 59

Chapter 5 The Crumbling of a Viral Jesus Movement 77

Chapter 6 The History of Partial Viral Jesus Movements 95

Chapter 7 China: A Current Viral Jesus Movement 111

Chapter 8 Viral Discipleship 129

Chapter 9 Viral Church Planting 151

Chapter 10 Viral Evangelism 173

Conclusion 189

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