Difference Makers

An Action Guide for Jesus Followers

by: M. Scott Boren

• Format

  E-Book

  ISBN

  9781441242648

  Pub. Date

  Jun 2013

  SRP

  $13.99

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About

One ordinary life can make an extraordinary impact

Let's face it: most of us are regular people living in a broken world--a world that needs our touch, our influence, our actions. Difference Makers is not a book about Christians in the headlines. It's about you. This 40-day exploration will show how you can make a difference for God where you are right now--at your workplace, in your neighborhood, with your friends and family--just by the way you live, pray, and act in your daily life.

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"In this insightful and immensely practical book, Scott empowers us ordinary Christians to become extraordinary 'difference makers' by teaching us how to notice the way God is present and active in even the most mundane aspects of our lives--whether changing our baby's diapers, mowing the lawn, greeting our neighbor, or working a nine-to-five job. This is a book that all of us 'ordinary' Christians need to read!"--Greg Boyd, senior pastor, Woodland Hills Church, Maplewood, MN; author of Letters from a Skeptic

"The creative insights and reflections in Difference Makers encourage us toward a 40-day contemplative journey that will challenge us to more deeply encounter, experience, and engage the grace of God as we begin to make an undeniable difference for good in the world."--Bruxy Cavey, author of The End of Religion; teaching pastor at The Meeting House, Toronto

"This book provides doable first steps that help the average Christian make a difference. You can change the world around you when you live out these principles."--Steve Gladen, pastor of small groups, Saddleback Church; author of Small Groups with Purpose and Leading Small Groups with Purpose

"I hesitate to call Scott Boren's Difference Makers a book because reading it is more like submitting to a tutor, a coach, a spiritual guide. Pastors, Christians, no more conferences, please. Instead, read this book."--David Fitch, B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology, Northern Seminary; author of Prodigal Christianity

M. Scott Boren is the founder of The Center for Community and Mission and the author of Missional Small Groups and The Relational Way. He shares life with his wife, Shawna, and their four children. He can be reached at www.mscottboren.com.

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Endorsements

"These readings in Difference Makers could lead to substantive changes in your life and career. They certainly could lead you to do things you never dreamed of doing but are glad you did." 

from the foreword by Scot McKnight, author of The King Jesus Gospel

"People often assume that only extraordinary people can make an extraordinary difference in the world for God. Not so, according to Scott Boren. In this insightful and immensely practical book, Scott empowers us ordinary Christians to become extraordinary 'difference makers' by teaching us how to notice the way God is present and active in even the most mundane aspects of our lives--whether changing our baby's diapers, mowing the lawn, greeting our neighbor, or working a nine-to-five job. This is a book that all of us 'ordinary' Christians need to read!"

Greg Boyd, senior pastor, Woodland Hills Church, Maplewood, MN; author of Letters from a Skeptic

"It's so easy for us to become Bobble-Head Christians who nod to the intellectual truths we hear but fail to transform our own lives and the lives of those around us through those truths. The creative insight and reflection in Scott Boren's book Difference Makers encourage us toward a forty-day contemplative journey that will challenge us to more deeply encounter, experience, and engage the grace of God as we begin to make an undeniable difference for good in the world."

Bruxy Cavey, author of The End of Religion; teaching pastor at The Meeting House, Toronto

"This book provides doable first steps that help the average Christian make a difference. Whether reading it alone, with a small group, or as a part of a forty-day churchwide campaign, you can change the world around you when you live out these principles."

Steve Gladen, pastor of small groups, Saddleback Church; author of Small Groups with Purpose and Leading Small Groups with Purpose

"I hesitate to call Scott Boren's Difference Makers a book because reading it is more like submitting to a tutor, a coach, a spiritual guide. Each page guides me deeper into life with God's mission. And afterwards, I find God has used this book to grow me, not by knowing more about his mission but by actually living more into his mission. Pastors, Christians, no more conferences, please. Instead, read this book."

David Fitch, B R Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology, Northern Seminary; author of Prodigal Christianity

"Want to make a difference in this world? Then you must read Scott Boren's Difference Makers. What I like about the book is that Scott shoes how ordinary people like you and me can change the world through our everyday lives. To help us on the journey, he offers forty days of short readings to take action on as we seek to develop our lives into those of difference makers. I never miss a book by Scott Boren."

Bill Easum, president, 21st Century Strategies

"If you have ever wondered whether you could really make a kingdom difference, you need to read this book. No, better yet, experience the book! Read it, mark it up, inwardly digest the thoughts and ideas, and then act on them, and you will experience what making a difference can mean in your life! And it's fun to read too!"

Rev. Dr. Terry Tieman, president and executive director, Transforming Churches Network

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