Church Together
The Church of We in the Age of Me
Foreword by O. S. Hawkins
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Church Together is a Christian leadership book designed to give pastors, church leaders, and church members a working plan to overcome the greatest underlying threat to the church today, individualism, through five relationships of surrender which correlate to the five core values of the Church of We.
Part One examines the three rotten fruits of individualism within the Church of Me--consumerism, pragmatism, and the extremes of legalism and liberalism--and how to spot each of these problems. Part Two offers a solution on what it will take for churches to make a healthy transition from the Church of Me to the Church of We. Church Together, for this reason, gives churches a manageable plan to defy the individualistic spirit of the age as they become the Church of We in the Age of Me.
Daniel C. Dickard is Lead Pastor of Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a two-time graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. With a focus on expository preaching, intercessory prayer, and the Great Commission, his aim is to see churches grow in health and strength. Daniel is married to Cassie, his wife, and together they have three children: Conrad, Kesyd, and Carolina.
“Seldom have I seen a manuscript that exhibits such theological acumen, cultural insight, and practical savvy. . . . Dickard perceptively diagnoses the consumerism, pragmatism, and extremes of legalism and liberalism of many of today’s churches. His remedy is relationship, expressed in five core values he calls ‘the church of we.’ . . . This book will appeal to pastors, students, and laypeople alike. I have no doubt that it will be a best seller.”
—David L. Allen, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Church Together is a fresh reminder that discipleship doesn’t happen in isolation. Healthy, God-ordained relationships are essential. These relationships allow us to pour into others while being challenged in our personal walk with the Lord. Daniel Dickard has given us a vital resource in helping us to understand the necessity of ‘we’ in the age of ‘me.’”
—Phil Waldrep, Evangelist, Phil Waldrep Ministries
“Through many dangers, toils, and snares, God’s churches have already come; yet now, a new threat assails them. . . . This threat is not against us—it is us. Instead of doing God’s will on the highways and byways, we want church done our way or the highway. Dickard diagnoses these symptoms as the church of me and prescribes the cure in order that God’s people become a church together—a church of we.”
—Matt Queen, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
“The volume you now hold in your hand is much more than a catchy, clever title; the truth in these pages will be applicable for believers for generations to come. These principles, so applicable for all believers, . . . have been beaten out on the anvil of personal experience in Dickard’s own local expression of Christ’s body, the church. And these principles will last as long as the church lives—that is, until the glorious day of his appearing.”
—O. S. Hawkins, author of The Joshua Code
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