Engage! offers church leaders crucial
insights into one of the most important characteristics of being a disciple: engaging and
loving our neighbors through the building
of relationships.
Maynard writes that our churches sit
uncomfortably empty while people sit at
their kitchen tables, bemoaning that they
don’t have any real friends. People going
through difficult times have no one to give
them support, newcomers to a community
find it difficult to meet people, and neighbors pass each other by with only a nod of
acknowledgment.
People are looking for relationships. The
mission field is ripe for the harvest. How
can the church support the development of
authentic, inclusive, and transformational
relationships? After all, we are at the very
center of our being, a relational faith.
Engage! was written to help develop that
relational faith.
